Presentations

Abdollahi, F., Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C. & Kiran, S. (2021, November). Confronting health disparities for bilinguals with aphasia. Accepted for oral presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Washington, D.C., USA.

Billot A., Lai S., Varkanitsa M., Braun E.J., Rapp B., Parrish T.B., Kurani A.S., Higgins J., Caplan D., Thompson C.K., Betke M., Ishwar P., Kiran S., (2021, October) Multimodal behavioral and neural data predict response to treatment in post-stroke aphasia. Accepted for oral presentation at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (held virtually)

Billot A., Lai S., Varkanitsa M., Braun E. J., Gu Y., Bahrani M., Bighetto J., Rapp B., Parrish T. B., Caplan D., Thompson C. K., Ishwar P., Betke M., Kiran S. (2021, October) Predicting post-stroke aphasia recovery from multimodal neuroimaging data. Accepted for oral presentation at the 11th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation. (held virtually)

Cordella, C., Munsell, M., Godlove, J., Anantha, V., Advani, M. & Kiran, S. (2021). Investigating dosage frequency effects on therapy outcomes following self-managed telerehabilitation. Poster presented at: Academy of Aphasia, virtual.

Cordella, C., Munsell, M., Godlove, J., Anantha, V., Advani, M. & Kiran, S. (2021). Patient-level predictors of therapy outcomes following self-managed telerehabilitation. Paper presented at: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, virtual.

Gilbert, C., Citorik, A., Gilmore, N., Kiran, S. (2021, November). 2009V: Getting our CCC’s: Cognitive and Communication Rehabilitation, COVID-19, and Continuity of Care Through Telepractice. Proposal accepted for 1 hour pre-recorded oral seminar for the Hybrid 2021 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Washington, D.C.

Gilbert, C., Gilmore, N., Kiran, S. (2021, March). Enabling Functional Outcomes Through Educational Rehabilitation. Oral presentation at the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts 39th Annual Brain Injury Conference. (Delivered Virtually).

Gilbert, C. (2021, March). Aphasia: Who, What, When, Where, Why, & How. Continuing education presentation on Aphasia to the John Hancock Financial Services Clinical Team. (Delivered Virtually).

Cordella, C., Munsell, M., Godlove, J., Anantha, V., Advani, M. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Investigating dosage frequency effects on therapy outcomes following self-managed telerehabilitation. Accepted for poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Virtual.

Falconer, I., Varkanitsa, M. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Pre-treatment graph measures of resting-state functional connectivity predict language treatment outcome in aphasia. Accepted for slide slam presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Virtual)

Carpenter, E., Peñaloza, C., Rao, L., & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Clustering and switching in verbal fluency across different language contexts: Evidence from bilingual aphasia. Accepted for pre-recorded oral presentation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. (held virtually).

Varkanitsa, M., Peñaloza, C., Charidimou, A., Caplan, D. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Cerebral small vessel disease burden: A biomarker for post-stroke aphasia recovery. Accepted for poster presentation at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Online

Dekhtyar, M., Mukadam, N., Braun, E. J., Zheng, H., Genovese, A., & Kiran, S. (2021, November). C.H.A.T.: Communication through Health, Art and Technology, A support group for individuals with aphasia. One-hour talk accepted at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, D.C.

Braun, E. J. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Influence of stimulus- and patient-level factors on naming treatment outcomes in individuals with aphasia. Accepted for 20-minute Platform presentation at the 59th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting, Virtual.

Braun, E. J. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Influence of item- and individual-level semantic and phonological characteristics on word production in individuals with aphasia. Accepted for Slide Slam presentation at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Lai, S., Billot, A., Varkanitsa, M., Braun, E. J., Rapp, B., Parrish T. B., Kurani, A. S., Higgins, J., Caplan, D., Thompson, C. K., Kiran, S., Betke, M., & Ishwar, P. (2021, June). An exploration of machine learning methods for predicting post-stroke aphasia recovery. Paper presented at PETRA ’21: The 13th PErvaseive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (PETRA), Corfu, Greece. DOI: 10.1145/3453892.3461319

Billot, A., Lai, S., Varkanitsa, M., Braun, E. J., Rapp, B., Parrish, T., Kurani, A. S., Higgins, J., Caplan, D., Thompson, C. K., Ishwar, P., Betke, M., & Kiran, S. (2021, March). Prediction of treatment-related language recovery in post-stroke aphasia from neuroimaging and behavioral data. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Marte, M.J., & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Influences on cognate facilitation in healthy bilinguals and bilinguals with aphasia. Accepted as slide slam presentation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.

Billot A., Lai S., Varkanitsa M., Braun E. J., Gu Y., Bahrani M., Bighetto J., Rapp B., Parrish T. B., Caplan D., Thompson C. K., Ishwar P., Betke M. & Kiran S. (oral presentation, 2020) Predicting post-stroke aphasia recovery from multimodal neuroimaging data. 11th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation. (held virtually)

Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C., Gaona, A., Carpenter, E., Mukadam, N., Gray, T., Shamapant, S. & Kiran, S. (2020, November). A telerehabilitation protocol for word retrieval impairment in bilingual aphasia: Implementation and insights. Accepted for oral presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. San Diego, CA, USA (Convention canceled).

Gilmore, N., Mirman, D., & Kiran, S. (2020, October). Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury Show Significant Gains in Cognitive Function Following Intensive Rehabilitation. Accepted for poster presentation at the 2020 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) 97th Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, USA (held virtually).

.Gilmore, N.,  Yücel, M. & Kiran, S. (2020, October). Investigating language and cognitive processing in healthy and neurologically-impaired individuals using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Accepted for poster presentation at the Academy of Aphasia 58th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, USA (held virtually).

Peñaloza, C., Scimeca, M., Gaona, A., Carpenter, E., Mukadam, N., Gray, T., Shamapant, S. & Kiran, S. (2020, October). Feasibility and reliability of teletherapy for word-retrieval deficits in bilingual aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at World Congress for Neurorehabilitation. Paris, France (held virtually).

Gilmore, N., Li, X., Yücel, M. & Kiran, S. (2020, February). Examining the neural substrates of language and cognitive processing in young adults with acquired brain injury using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Accepted as oral presentation at ABI2020 15th Annual Conference on Brain Injury. New Orleans, LA, USA.

Gilmore, N., Li, X., Yücel, M., Kiran, S., & Boas, D. (2020, January). Investigating the Neural Bases of  Language and Cognitive Processing in Healthy Adults Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Accepted for poster presentation at Neurophotonics Center’s 3rd Annual Symposium. Boston, MA, USA.

Braun, E. J., Billot, A., Kurani, A. S., Parrish, T. B., & Kiran, S. (2020, March). The relationship between white matter structural integrity and language performance in individuals with aphasia. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2020 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Li, R., Perrachione, T. K., Tourville, J. A., & Kiran, S. Predicting typicality effect from brain activation patterns in healthy adults and individuals with aphasia: a multi-voxel pattern analysis. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2020 Annual Meeting, Virtual

Faroqi-Shah Y, Milman L and Li R (2019). Comparing language performance in bilinguals and monolinguals: some measures are more equal than others. Front. Hum. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 57th Annual Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2019.01.00111

Dekhtyar, M., Braun, E. J., Foo, L., Billot, A., & Kiran, S. (accepted oral presentation, 2019,
November). Tele-assessment with the Western Aphasia Battery – Revised in adults with aphasia.
Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

Dekhtyar, M., Braun, E. J., Foo, L., & Kiran, S. (2019, May). Validating the Western Aphasia Battery –Revised through tele-assessment for individuals with aphasia. Talk presented at the 1 st
International Conference on Teleneurorehabilitation, Crotone, Italy.

Dekhtyar, M., Braun, E. J., Foo, L. Kiran, S. (2019, May). Validating the Western Aphasia Battery –
Revised through tele-assessment for individuals with aphasia. Poster presented at the 49 th Annual
Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Whitefish, Montana.

Butler, L. K., Kiran, S. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (accepted poster presentation, 2019) A Systematic
Review of fNIRS Studies With People With Communication Disorders. 2019 American Speech-
Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention. Orlando, FL, USA

 Li, R., Li, W., Kiran, S. (2019). Effect of Chinese Verb Network Strengthening Treatment in Mandarin-English Bilinguals with Aphasia. Paper accepted at the Academy of Aphasia, Macau, 2019.

 Billot A., Thiebaut De Schotten M., Parrish T. , Thompson C.K., Rapp B., Caplan D., & Kiran S. (oral presentation, 2019) Structural disconnection maps associated with language impairment in chronic aphasia. Academy of Aphasia 57th annual meeting. Macau, China.

Billot A., Thiebaut De Schotten M., Parrish T. , Thompson C.K., Rapp B., Caplan D., & Kiran S. (2019) Structural disconnection maps associated with language impairment in chronic aphasia. 14th Eleanor M. Saffran Conference. Philadelphia, PA, USA

Peñaloza, C. (oral presentation, 2019). Computational modeling of lexical access deficits and
treatment outcomes in bilingual aphasia. Clinical forum at MultiLing, Center for Multilingualism
in Society Across the Lifespan. Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University
of Oslo. Oslo, Norway.

Peñaloza, C. (oral presentation, 2019). Language recovery and prediction of treatment outcomes
in people with aphasia. Neurovascular conference series, Boston Medican Center, Boston, MA,
USA.

Gilmore, N., Foo, L. & Kiran, S. (oral presentation, 2019). Reframing the Continuum of Care for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. 2019 American Speech-Language
Hearing Association Convention. Boston, MA, USA.

Gilmore, N.; Kiran, S. (poster presentation , 2019). Novel, Academically-Focused Cognitive Rehabilitation Program Provides a Ramp to College Success for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. 2019 American Society of Neurorehabilitation Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, USA.

Antonucci, S. &  Gilmore, N. (round table discussion, 2019). Do aphasia core outcome sets require core analysis sets:  Where do we go from here in single subject design research?  The 2019 Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Whitefish, Montana, USA.

 Gilmore, N., Foo, L.& Kiran, S. (poster presentation,  2019). Academically-focused cognitive rehabilitation supports cognitive-linguistic recovery in college-bound adults with brain injury. The 2019 Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Whitefish, Montana, USA.

Gilmore, N., Foo, L. & Kiran, S. (oral presentation, 2019). A Ramp to College: Intensive Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire. 36th Annual Brain Injury
& Stroke Conference. Concord, NH, USA.

Foo, L., Gilmore, N. & Kiran, S. (oral presentation, 2019). Reshaping Cognitive-Linguistic Rehab for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). 2019 MIT BrainTrust Symposium. Cambridge, MA, USA.

Kiran, S. (November, 2018). Neuroplasticity and language recovery in aphasia. 2018 Annual Research Symposium, American Speech Language and Hearing Association, Boston, MA.

Kiran, S. (November, 2018). Functional reorganization of the language system in aphasia. Annual Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences. Boston, MA.

Kiran, S. (June, 2018). Optimizing the Intensity of Aphasia Therapy. NeuroRehabilitation 2019. Waltham, MA.

Kiran, S. (April, 2018). Understanding and predicting aphasia recovery and after rehabilitation. Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery, Columbia, SC.

Kiran, S. (2018). Understanding neuroplasticity, Baycrest Speech Pathologist Conference, Toronto, CA.

Kiran, S. (2018). How Can Technology Enable Rehabilitation in Chronic Aphasia. Baycrest Speech Pathologist Conference, Toronto, CA.

Kiran, S. (2018). Understanding how big data analyses can inform theories of rehabilitation. Baycrest Speech Pathologist Conference, Toronto, CA.

.Foo, L., Gilmore, N., & Kiran, S. ( oral presentation, 2018) Intensive-Cognitive Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). 2018 American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention. Boston, MA, USA.

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Pan, Y., & Kiran, S. (2018, October). The utility of lesion classification models in predicting language abilities and treatment outcomes in persons with aphasia.56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada.

Kiran, S., Meier, E., Johnson, J., Pan, Y., El Guindy, S., & Bohland, J. (2018, October). Functional networks, language impairment and recovery after treatment in aphasia. 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada

Angelopolou, G., Kiran, S., Kasselimis, D., Meier, E., Pan, Y., Varkanitsa M., Tsolakopoulos, D., Papageorgiou, G., Goutsis, D., Evdokimidis, I &Potagas, C. (2018, October). Speech errors patterns in post-stroke aphasia: cross-linguistic evidence from two elicitation tasks. 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada.

Ryskin, R., Gibson, E., & Kiran, S. (2018, October). Adaptation to the noise in aphasic sentence comprehension. 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada.

Campbell, R., Ryskin, R., & Kiran, S. (2018, October). A novel eye tracking paradigm for assessing semantic and phonologic activation in aphasia. 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada.

Gilmore, N., Foo, L, & Kiran, S. (oral presentation, 2018). Filling the Gap: Cognitive Rehab for College-Bound Young Adults with Brain Injury. Brain Injury Association of Vermont Annual Brain Injury Conference. Waterbury, VT.

Peñaloza, C., Rao, L., Kate Barrett, & Kiran, S. (2017, November). The association between language exposure and proficiency and L2 performance in bilingual adults with aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at the 55^th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Baltimore, MD.

Peñaloza, C., Grasemann, U., Miikkulainen, R., Dekhtyar, M., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). A computational account of word representation and processing in bilingual individuals. Accepted for poster presentation at the 9^th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.

Quillen, I.A., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). Effects of Lexical Stress on Noun and Verb Production in Aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Baltimore, MD

Chaturvedi, S., Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Geng, Y., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). Changes in neural activity during a semantic verification task as a result of treatment in persons with aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at the 9^thAnnual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.

Gilmore, N., Johnson, J.P., Meier, E.L., Des Roches, Carrie & Kiran, S. (2017, November). The multidimensional nature of aphasia: Using factors beyond language to predict treatment outcomes. Academy of Aphasia 55th Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

 Gilmore, N., Dwyer, M. & Kiran, S. (2017). A Systematic Review of Standardized Outcome Measures Used in Aphasia Rehabilitation, Including Meta-analyses. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) 94th Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Gilmore, N., Johnson, J., Meier, E., Cardullo, S., & Kiran, S. (2017). Treatment and generalization effects of training atypical exemplars of semantic categories for patients with chronic aphasia. The 2017 Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.

 Gilmore, N., Johnson, J., Meier, E., Cardullo, S., & Kiran, S. (2017). Treatment and generalization effects of training atypical exemplars of semantic categories for patients with chronic aphasia. Communication Sciences Research Day, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Gilmore, N., Johnson, J., Meier, E., Cardullo,S., & Kiran, S. (2017). The Multidimensional Nature of Aphasia: Using Factors beyond Language to Predict Treatment Outcomes. Aphasia Research Laboratory Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts.

Johnson, J.P., Des Roches, C., Meier, E.L., Gilmore, N., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). The multidimensional nature of aphasia: Predicting and documenting treatment outcomes with linguistic and cognitive measures. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention; Los Angeles, CA.

Johnson, J.P., Meier, E.L., Gilmore, N., Des Roches, C., Kiran, S. (2017, October). Predicting gains from aphasia rehabilitation using measures of language and cognition. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) 94th Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 

Meier, E, Kiran, S. (2017, October). Frontotemporal effective connectivity during semantic feature judgments in patients with aphasia versus healthy controls. Academy of Aphasia 54th Annual Meeting. Llandudno, Wales, UK. 

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Geng, Y., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). White matter matters in the recovery of language in post-stroke aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at the 9^th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.

Meier, E.L., Johnson, J.P., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). A clinician’s guide to neuroimaging techniques for acquired brain injury. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention; Los Angeles, CA.

Peñaloza, C., Rao, L. and Kiran, S. (November, 2017). The association between language use/proficiency and L2 performance in bilingual adults with aphasia. Academy of Aphasia, Baltimore, MD.

Peñaloza, C., Grasemann, U., Miikkulainen, R., and Kiran, S. (November, 2017). A computational account of word representation and processing in bilingual individuals. Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.

Ross, K., Ross, N., Gilmore, N., Des Roches, C. & Kiran, S. (2017). The Intensive Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) Program for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC) 47th Annual Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Ross, N., Ross, K., Gilmore, N., Des Roches, C. & Kiran, S. (2017). A Novel Approach to Intensive Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. 12^th World Congress on Brain Injury. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Niziolek, C.A., Quillen, I.A., Lin, K.R., Beach, S.D., and Kiran, S. (March, 2017). Cognitive interference modulates speech acoustics in a vowel-modified Stroop task. 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society; San Francisco, CA.

Niziolek, C.A., Lin, K.R., Beach, S.D., Quillen, I.A., and Kiran, S. (June, 2017). Speech acoustics are modulated by cognitive interference in a vowel-modified Stroop task. 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; Boston, MA.

Beach, S.D., Niziolek, C.A., and Kiran, S. (September, 2017). Neural decoding of word identity and acoustic prototypicality during speech perception in listeners with and without aphasia. Sixth International Conference on Auditory Cortex; Banff, Canada.

Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (November, 2017). Cortical sensitivity to spoken acoustic variability in persons with aphasia: an MEG study. Seminar at the Academy of Aphasia 55th Annual Meeting; Baltimore, MD.

Niziolek, C.A., Beach, S.D., and Kiran, S. (November, 2017). Decoding the cortical sensitivity of spoken acoustic variability in persons with aphasia. Society for the Neurobiology of Language; Baltimore, MD.

 Ross, K., Johnson, J.P., Ramesh, S., Zedan, M., & Kiran, S. (October, 2016). Multi-step treatment for acquired alexia and agraphia: Two-dimensional analysis of reading and writing errors. Poster at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia; Llandudno, Wales, UK. 

Ross, K., Kiran, S., Johnson, J.P., Ramesh, S., & Zedan, M. (November, 2016). A novel scoring system to analyze reading and writing errors. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention; Philadelphia, PA.

Gilmore, N., Dwyer, M. and Kiran, S. (December, 2016). A Systematic Review of Outcome Measures Utilized in Aphasia Treatment Research, including a Meta-analysis. International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference; London, England, UK.

Gilmore, N., Meier, E., Johnson, J., Cardullo, S. and Kiran, S. (December, 2016). Treatment and Generalization Effects of Training Atypical Exemplars of Well-Defined Categories for Patients with Chronic Aphasia.International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference; London, England, UK.

Kiran, S. & Godlove, J., (2016, December). Big-Data driven approaches to clinical decision making in aphasia rehabilitation. International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, London, UK

Centeno, J., Kiran, S., Munoz, M. (November, 2016). Contemporary Approaches to Assessment & Intervention with Bilingual Speakers with Aphasia. American Speech language and Hearing Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

Max, L., Behroozmand, R., Daliri, A., Hammer, M.J. and Niziolek, C.A. (2016, November). Modulation of sensory systems before & during speech production: typical & disordered speech. Seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (2016, October). Behavioral and neural measures of error detection and correction in persons with aphasia. Seminar at the Academy of Aphasia 54th Annual Meeting; Llandudno, Wales, UK.

Johnson, J.P., Ross, K., & Kiran, S. (2016, October). Multi-Step Treatment for Acquired Alexia and Agraphia: Treatment Effects, Generalization, and Response to Individual Therapy Tasks. Poster 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting, Llandudno, Wales.

Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (2016, September). Assessing speech error detection and correction abilities in patients with aphasia: MEG and behavioral evidence. Presentation at the 11th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Cognitive Neuroscience Conference; Philadelphia, PA.

Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (2016, August). Assessing error detection and correction abilities in patients with aphasia: MEG and behavioral evidence. Presentation at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language; London, UK.

Niziolek, C.A. (2016, August). Speech error detection and correction in persons with aphasia. Oral presentation at the Sensorimotor Speech Processing Symposium; London, UK.

Kasdan, A., & Kiran, S. (2016, July). Please don’t stop the music: Song completion in patients with aphasia. 14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA.

Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2016, June). Treatment-induced changes in anatomical and functional regions of interest in people with aphasia. Poster presentation at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Geneva, Switzerland.

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J.P., Villard, S., & Kiran, S. (2016, May). Does naming therapy make ordering in a restaurant easier?: Dynamics of co-occurring change in cognitive-linguistic and functional communication skills in aphasia. Oral presentation at the 46th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Charlottesville, VA.

Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2016, May). Effects of semantic feature-based naming therapy on anatomical and functional regions of interest in people with aphasia. Oral presentation at 46th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Charlottesville, VA.

Johnson, J.P., Ross, K., & Kiran, S. (2016). Evaluating responsiveness to treatment and generalization in patients with acquired reading and writing deficits. Poster at the 44^th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society; Boston, MA.

(INVITED) Kiran, S. (2016). Principles of Neuroplasticity in Aphasia. Advances in our current understanding. Illinois Speech and Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

(INVITED) Kiran, S. (2016). Using Big data to facilitate clinical decision making. Illinois Speech and Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

(INVITED) Kiran, S (2015). Principles of Neuroplasticity in Aphasia. Advances in our current understanding. Braintree Neurorehabilitation conference. Boston, MA. 4.

(INVITED) Kiran, S (2015). Using big data to understand and improve rehabilitation in aphasia. Braintree Neurorehabilitation conference. Boston, MA 5.

Villard, S. & Kiran, S. (2016, February, upcoming). Between-Session and Within-Session Intra-Individual Variability in Attention in Aphasia. Presentation at the International Neuropsychological Society; Boston, MA.

Kastenbaum, J., Kiran, S., Vallila-Rohter, S., Pena, E., Bedore, L., & Sheng, L. (2015, September).  The influence of language combination and proficiency on bilingual lexical access. Paper presentation at the American Speech-Language & Hearing Association; Denver, Colorado.

Meier, E., Villard, S., Johnson, J., & Kiran, S. (2015, November). Does Naming Therapy Make Ordering in a Restaurant Easier? Impairment vs. Function in Aphasia. Seminar at the American Speech-Language & Hearing Association; Denver, Colorado.

Kasdan, A., & Kiran, S. (2015, October). Please don’t stop the music: Song completion in patients with aphasia. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Tuscon, AZ.

Kiran, S. & Des Roches, C. (2015, October). Using big-data to validate theories of rehabilitation in aphasia. (Presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia in Tucson, AZ).

Villard, S. & Kiran, S. (2015, October). Now you’re with me, now you’re not: Between-session and within-session intra-individual variability in attention in aphasia. Presentation at the Academy of Aphasia; Tucson, Arizona

Meier, E., Kushal, K., & Kiran, S. (2015, October). Effective connectivity of the naming network in post-stroke chronic aphasia. The Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, IL.

Kastenbaum, J., Kiran, S., Vallila-Rohter, S., Pena, E., Bedore, L., & Sheng, L. (2015, September).  The influence of language combination and proficiency on bilingual lexical access.  Poster to be presented at the International Symposium of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Crete, Greece.

Gray, T. & Kiran, S. (2015, September). Mechanisms of language control and cognitive control in bilingual aphasia.  International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Crete, Greece.

Kiran, S., Kapse, K., & Meier, E. (2015, June). Effective connectivity analysis of language networks in healthy adults and in chronic aphasia. NeuroHam, Boston, MA.

Kiran, S., Johnson, J.P., Kapse, K., Martin, K., & Meier, E. (2015, June). Task-Based Reorganization of Function after Rehabilitation in Post-Stroke Aphasia. NeuroHAM, Boston, MA.Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2015, March).

Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2015, June). Neural activations during feedback-based and paired associate category learning in aphasia.  Poster to be presented at the annual NeuroHam Conferences, Boston, MA.

Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2015, June). Neural activations during feedback-based and paired associate category learning in aphasia.  Poster to be presented at the annual Organization for Human Brain Mapping Meeting, Honolulu, HI.

Kiran, S., Kapse, K., & Meier, E. (2015, June). Effective connectivity analysis of language networks in healthy adults and in chronic aphasia. Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, HI.

Kiran, S., Johnson, J.P., Kapse, K., Martin, K., & Meier, E. (2015, June). Task-Based Reorganization of Function after Rehabilitation in Post-Stroke Aphasia. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, HI.

Vallila-Rohter, S., Des Roches, C., Villard, S., Tripodis, Y., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2015, May).  Evaluating treatment and generalization patterns of two theoretically motivated sentence comprehension therapies.  Platform presentation at the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Monterey, CA. 

Gray, T. & Kiran, S. (2015, May). Domain general vs. domain specific language and cognitive processing in bilingual aphasia. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Monterey, CA.

Gray, T. & Kiran, S. (2015, March).  Control mechanisms in bilingual aphasia. Poster presented at the 22^nd Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Meier, E., Lo, M., & Kiran, S. (2015, May). Understanding semantic and phonological processing deficits in adults with aphasia: Effects of category and typicality. Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Monterey, CA.

Des Roches, C., Mitko, A., & Kiran, S. (2015, May). Relationship between levels of assistance and changes in treatment performance in individuals with aphasia: Understanding individual responsiveness to rehabilitation. Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Monterey, CA.

Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2015, March). Neural correlates of probabilistic category learning in aphasia. Poster presented at the 22nd annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

INVITED Kiran, S. (2014). Symposium on Language and cognitive control in bilinguals: Evidence from neuroimaging and neurological disorders. World Federation of Neurology, Research Group on Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders, Hong Kong.

INVITED Gray, T. & Kiran, S. (2014, November). Application of current theoretical models to bilingual aphasia rehabilitation. Paper presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

Bohland, J., Kapse, K., & Kiran, S. (2014, October) Graph analytic characterization of resting state networks in post-stroke Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia, Miami, FL.

Sandberg, C., Bohland, J & Kiran, S. (2014, October). Changes in Functional Connectivity Associated with Direct Training and Generalization Effects of a Theory-Based Generative Naming Treatment. Academy of Aphasia, Miami, FL.

Sims, J., Kapse, K., & Kiran, S. (2014, April). The importance of the ipsi- and contralesional frontal and temporal regions in language recovery in aphasia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Villard, S. & Kiran, S. (2014, May). Inter- and intra-individual variability in non-linguistic attention in aphasia. Poster at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Krishan, G., Tiwari, S., Kiran, S., Chengappa, S., (2014, May). Cross-linguistic generalization of semantic treatment in aphasia: Evidence from the Indian context. Poster at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Kiran, S., Gray, T., Kapse, K., & Salcedo, S. (2013, October). Language Networks in English-Spanish bilinguals with and without aphasia. 51st Academy of Aphasia, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Villard, S., & Kiran, S. Consistency of Sustained and Focused Non-Linguistic Attention in Aphasia. 51^st Academy of Aphasia, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Sims, J., Kapse, K., & Kiran, S. (2014, April). The importance of the ipsi- and contralesional frontal and temporal regions in language recovery in aphasia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Kiran.S. et al., (2013, November). The nature of across-task and across-structure generalization following a sentence comprehension treatment for aphasia. 2013 Society for Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2013, November). Neural activations during nonlinguistic category learning in individuals with aphasia. 2013 Society for Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2013, June). Changes in functional connectivity associated with treatment gains in aphasia. Poster to be presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2013 conference.

Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2013, May). Changes in Functional Connectivity Associated with Direct Training and Generalization Effects of a Theory-Based Generative Naming Treatment. Platform presented at the 43^rd Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Tuscon, AZ.

Gray, T. & Kiran, S. (2013, May). Cognitive control in bilingual aphasia. Presented at the 43rd Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Tuscon, AZ.

Kiran, S., Des Roches, C., Balachandran, I., & Ascenso, E (2013, May). Validation of an ipad based therapy for individuals with brain damage. Presented at the 43rd Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Tuscon, AZ.

Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2013, May). Learning ability as a predictor of success with therapy. Poster presented at the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Tucson, AZ.

Gray, T. & Kiran, S. (2013, March). Cognitive control in bilingual aphasia. Poster presented at the annual Boston University Scholar’s Day, Boston, MA.

.Gray, T., Glynn, P., Luk, G., & Kiran, S. (2013, April).  Gray matter volume differences between Spanish-English and Hindi-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Kiran, S, Caplan, D, Villard, S, Ascenso, E, & Waters, G. (2012). Effects of training sentence to picture matching and object manipulation to improve sentence comprehension in aphasia: acquisition and generalization. Academy of Aphasia. San Francisco, USA

Gray T.,  Kiran S. (2012). Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Interference Suppression in Bilingual Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia. San Francisco, USA

Kiran S., Balachandran I., Lucas J., Gray T. (2012). The Nature of Lexical Semantic Access in Bilingual Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia. San Francisco, USA

Glynn, P, Sandberg, C., & Kiran, S.., (2012). The role of the left and right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) in language recovery in aphasia. Human Brain Mapping, June 2012, Beijing, China

Kiran, S., Grasemann, U., Sandberg, C., & Miikkulianen, R. (2012). Simulating Bilingual Aphasia: A Novel Computational Model. International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, June 2012, Boston, MA

Sandberg, C., Gibson, T., Fedorenko, E., & Kiran, S. (2012). The Effect of Plausibility in Sentence Processing: Evidence from Priming and Sentence Comprehension. Clinical Aphasiology Conference, May 2012, Lake Tahoe, CA

Vallila, S., & Kiran, S. (2012). Non-linguistic learning in aphasia: Effects of training method and stimulus characteristics. Clinical Aphasiology Conference, May 2012, Lake Tahoe, CA

Kiran et al., (2012). Rehabilitation of bilingual aphasia: Evidence for within and between language generalization. Clinical Aphasiology Conference, May 2012, Lake Tahoe, CA

Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2012). Neural correlates of treatment effects on abstract and concrete words in aphasia: a pilot study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Chicago, IL

Vallila, S., & Kiran, S.  (2012). Exploration into feedback and nonfeedback based learning in aphasia.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Chicago, IL

Gray, T., & Kiran, S. (2012). A theoretical account of lexical semantic naming deficits in bilingual aphasia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Chicago, IL

Kiran, S., Obler, L., Ansaldo, A., Goral, M., Tainturier, M.-J., & Roberts, P. (2011). What Do We Know about Impairment and Recovery of Language in Bi-Multilingual Aphasia? Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, CA
Kiran, S., & Roberts, P. (2011). Training the Weaker Language to Examine Between-Language Transfer in Bilingual Aphasia Rehabilitation. Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, CA
Vallila, S., & Kiran, S. (2011). Exploration into Feedback and Non-feedback Based Learning in Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, CA
Kiran, S., Sandberg, C., Glynn, P., Ul-Haq, I., & Richardson, J., (2011). What is the role of the right hemisphere in the recovery of language in aphasia? Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Quebec City, CA.
Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2011). Neural correlates of treatment effects on abstract and concrete words in aphasia: A pilot study. Organization on Human Brain Mapping, Quebec City, Canada.
Kiran, S., Caplan, D., Sandberg, C., Levy, J., & Berardino, A. (2011) Development of a theoretically based treatment for sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia. Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Hoover, E., Waters, G., Levy, J., Caplan, D., Kiran. S., Berardino, A., & Sandberg , C., (2011). Effects of Syntactic Complexity in Discourse Comprehension. Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2011). Abstract and concrete word processing in patients with aphasia. International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA.

Kiran, S., Caplan, D., Sandberg, C., Levy, J., Berardino, A., & Simms, M. (2010). Development of a Theoretically Based Treatment For Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia, Athens Greece.

Levy, J., Kiran, S., Caplan., Berardino, A., & Sandberg., C. (2010). Development of a Test of Effects of Syntactic Comprehension Disorders on Discourse Comprehension. Academy of Aphasia, Athens Greece.

Kiran, S., Grasemann, U., Sandberg, C. & Miikkulianen, R. (2010). Simulating Bilingual Aphasia: A Novel Computational Model. Academy of Aphasia, Athens Greece.

Kiran, S., Cabral, F., Sandberg, C., & Tripodis, Y. (2010). Analysis of language errors as function of treatment reveals mechanisms in bilingual aphasic lexical access. Donostia Workshop on Neurobilingualism, San Sebastian Spain.

Kiran, S., Grasemann, U., Sandberg, C. & Miikkulianen, R. (2010). Simulating bilingual aphasia Rehabilitation: A novel computational model. Donostia Workshop on Neurobilingualism, San Sebastian Spain.

Kiran, S., Pena, E., Bedore, L., & Sheng, L. (2010). Evaluating the relationship between category generation and language use and proficiency. Donostia Workshop on Neurobilingualism, San Sebastian Spain.

Bose, A., Durda, K., Kiran, S., & Buchannan, L. (2010). Verbal fluency in aphasia: word frequency and semantic similarity. 7^th International conference on the Mental Lexicon, Windsor, Canada.

Grasemann, U., Sandberg, C., Kiran, S., and Miikkulainen, R. (2010). Rehabilitation and cross-language transfer in bilingual aphasia: Towards a computational model. Abstract presented at the Computation and Neural Systems Conference CNS*10, San Antonio, TX.

Roberts, P., & Kiran, S. (2010). Efficacy of semantic feature analysis in two bilingual adults treated in their weaker language. 14^th International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Grasemann, U., Sandberg, C., Kiran, S., and Miikkulainen, R. (2010). Rehabilitation and cross-language transfer in bilingual aphasia: Towards a computational model. Abstract presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, ICCNS-10, Boston, MA.

Sebastian, R. & Kiran, S. (2010). Task Modulated activation patterns in chronic stroke patients with aphasia. Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona Spain.

Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2010). Abstract and Concrete Noun Processing in Healthy Older Adults using fMRI. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal Canada.

Sebastian, R. & Kiran, S. (2010). Task Modulated Neural Activation Patterns in Chronic Stroke Participants with Aphasia.Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal Canada.

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2.      Roberts, P. & Kiran, S. (2007). Assessment and treatment of bilingual aphasia and bilingual anomia. A. Ardila & E. Ramos (Eds.) Speech and Language Disorders in Bilinguals. Nova Science Publishers. New York, NY, pp 109-131.

3.      Kiran, S. (2010). Exemplar. In P.C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

4.      Mavis, I. & Kiran, S. (2009). Semantic relatedness judgments in normal and aphasic bilinguals. Seyhun Topbaş and  Mehmet Yavaş (Eds.) Communication Disorders in Turkish in monolingual and multilingual settings. Series Editors: Nicole Mueller & Martin Ball. “Communication Disorders Across Languages”, Multilingual Matters.

5.      Kiran, S & Sandberg, C.(to appear). Treating communication problems in individuals with disordered language. R. Peach and L. Shapiro (Eds.). Cognition and Acquired Language Disorders: A Process-Oriented Approach. Elselvier. London.

6.      Kiran, S., & Roberts, P (to appear). What do we know about assessing language impairment in bilingual aphasia? In M. Gitterman, L. Obler, & M. Goral (Eds). Multilingual Matters: Multilingual Aphasia.

Kiran, S., & Roberts, P. (2011). Training the Weaker Language to Examine Between-Language Transfer in Bilingual Aphasia Rehabilitation. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23(0), 18-19. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.149

Vallila, S., & Kiran, S. (2011). Exploration into Feedback and Non-feedback Based Learning in Aphasia. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23(0), 116-117. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.197

Grasemann, U., Kiran, S., Sandberg, C., & Miikkulainen, R. (2010). Simulating Bilingual Aphasia: A Novel Computational Model. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6(0), 202-203. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.08.101

Levy, J., Kiran, S., Caplan, D., AlexBerardino, & Sandberg, C. (2010). Development of a Test of Effects of Syntactic Comprehension Disorders on Discourse Comprehension. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6(0), 164-165. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.08.081

Kiran, S., Caplan, D., Sandberg, C., Levy, J., Berardino, A., & Simms, M. (2010). Development of a Theoretically Based Treatment For Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6(0), 237-238. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.08.119