{"id":1180,"date":"2017-12-14T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:10:22","slug":"eva-park-in-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"EVA Park in York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EVA Park was demonstrated to a group of <a href=\"www.stroke.org.uk\/\">Stroke Association<\/a> volunteers, fundraisers and donors as part of a legacy event at the wonderfully Christmas-y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/goddards-house-and-garden\">Goddard&#8217;s House &amp; Garden<\/a> &#8211; home of the chocolate orange!<\/p>\n<p>The event included talks from the Goddard&#8217;s House history team and Stroke Association legacy team. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/scharr\/sections\/hsr\/rrg\/members\/rebecca-palmer\">Dr Rebecca Palmer<\/a> spoke about stroke and aphasia and technology use in rehabilitation. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulasmejka?lang=en\">Paula<\/a> &amp; John Smejka gave a heartfelt presentation on their experience of stroke &amp; aphasia, and John talked about his experience of being a participant in EVA Park. John then helped to demonstrate EVA Park to the delegates, showing them how to use the technology and have a virtual conversation.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great opportunity for the EVA team to make more links with people with aphasia, volunteers and coordinators in the north of England. The event enabled a wider group of people to become aware of EVA Park and everyone appeared to have fun having a go for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/?p=1057\">EVA Park groups project<\/a> will be running groups in the North West from April 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1196\" src=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3572-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3572\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3572-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3572.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1192\" src=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3576-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3576\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3576-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3576.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1195\" src=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3592-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3592\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3592-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3592.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1193\" src=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3578-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3578\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3578-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3578.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3584.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1194\" src=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3584-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3584\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3584-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3584.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3571.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1213\" src=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3571-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3571\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3571-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3571-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/IMG_3571.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVA Park was demonstrated to a group of Stroke Association volunteers, fundraisers and donors as part of a legacy event at the wonderfully Christmas-y Goddard&#8217;s House &amp; Garden &#8211; home of the chocolate orange! The event included talks from the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/?p=1180\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVA Park in York<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pagjzF-j2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evapark.city.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}