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Campaigning

Speakability influences policy and service development in a variety of ways.

  • Contacting MPs - inviting them to parliamentary events and to Speakability meetings.
  • Group members also write to their MPs and visit them in their surgery sessions.
  • Taking part in consultations - for example NICE or Department of Health consultations.
  • Playing an active part in umbrella organisations - Speakability members sit on the boards of the Neurological Alliance, Communications Forum, British Aphasiology Society and Intercollegiate Working Party on Stroke.
  • Raising awareness during Speak About Aphasia Month (annually in June).
  • Achieving media coverage about Aphasia.
  • Informing callers to the Information Service how they can get the best out of the system.
  • Working with other organisations with a common interest.

  • Our campaign document, Joined Up Talking, Joined Up Working, outlined Speakability's agenda for change to deliver the right services for people with Aphasia.