Dyscover was founded in 1994 by Gill Jackson MBE, a speech and language therapist with many years of NHS experience.

Gill had a vision of a community organisation offering long-term support through providing a range of activities in response to the needs and suggestions of people with aphasia and their families.

Dyscover has grown and developed and operates vital services for people with aphasia across the UK – online and in person (in Surrey and South London). Over 100 people attend our groups and courses each week. Dyscover is unique because all of our sessions, programmes and courses are led or overseen by professional speech and language therapists. We follow the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA) using supported conversation techniques across our service. For information on LPAA please click here. Our therapists are supported by a team of trained and dedicated volunteers.

Dyscover contributes to this vision as a Centre of Expertise from which we can share our knowledge in helping and empowering people with aphasia, and all who support them, to manage their communication disability and re-engage with life.

• We involve members in all aspects of the running of the groups.
• We run our activities professionally – all groups and courses are run and managed by speech and language therapists.
• We believe that with the right help our members will make improvements in the ability to communicate, in confidence and in self-esteem.
• We believe that, by meeting together and with our help, our members will learn to live positively with their disability

The quality of our service is assured through professional Speech and Language Therapy Leadership.

• We behave ethically, responsibly and in accordance with best practice.
• We aim to be caring, supportive and inclusive, and communicate effectively.
• We are member-led, innovative in service development and responsive to emerging needs.

• We want to maintain and advance our current in-person, online, satellite and ‘Challenge’ programme activities.
• We want to reach more people with aphasia through outreach services by; expanding our online services and being accessible and inclusive to all, particularly ethnic minority groups.
• We want to continue to develop Dyscover as a centre of expertise. Using our Ambassadors team to continue to raise public awareness. By providing quality training. Continuing to build strong relationships with academic researchers & establishments and giving student opportunities.