Development and success of a public informational YouTube channel about stroke and aphasia made by Psychology undergraduates

There is no single YouTube channel offering information to aphasic stroke patients and their relatives in Spain despite 150.000 new cases are reported each year in this country. Currently, general public can only found useful information for their daily routine through a search in scientific data basis (usually with non-full-text access, in another language and using too much technical terms) or through downloadable leaflets across the different national associations (usually very brief and dispersed). As a professor of the subject "Language and Thinking" in the Psychology Degree at a Spanish university, I proposed my students to create a public YouTube channel with educational information about stroke and one of its main causes of disability, aphasia. Two national associations collaborated with us (AAA, Asociación de Ayuda para la Afasia; and CEADAC, Centro de Referencia Estatal de Atención al Daño Cerebral) in providing technical advice as well as patients and professionals willing to be interviewed to share their different perspectives about stroke and aphasia. The channel is entitled "Proyecto Lenguaje" (Language Project). Students were divided by groups and are currently ellaborating the following videos: (1) types of aphasia and brain areas affected; (2) how neuropsychologists assess aphasia; (3) testimony of a stroke-almost fully recovered patient; (4) testimony of a disable after-stroke patient; (5) informational resources for stroke patients; (6) leisure activities for stroke patients. With this channel we hope to contribute in offering a more accessible and useful source of information to patients, relatives, general public and students in Spain.