Dr. Sudha Arunachalam, assistant professor in the department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and director of the BU Child Language Lab, has received the prestigious 2015 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship Award. Arunachalam will use the grant to fund travel to South Korea where she’ll extend her research with American and Korean toddlers, […]
(4/13/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “There’s no literature to suggest that you can by cutting certain foods out of your diet reset your hormones.” View Full Article and Video.
(4/9/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake looks at a new French law to protect fashion models. View Full Article.
(4/7/15) Anna Kasdan from the Aphasia Research Lab presented her TEDxBU talk: “Music Moves You” on Saturday, April 4. View Full Article.
(4/4/15) Larry Kohn, director of development at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, quoted. Expert quote: “You can’t tell this illness to go away. It comes back in people; it’s not a linear progression, like a lot of physical maladies are. But [through support groups], you can learn to manage the illness instead of having the illness […]
(4/2/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake interviewed. Watch Video.
(3/30/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake looks at new research. View Full Article.
(3/24/15) A new study from Professor Swathi Kiran and the Aphasia Research Lab shows iPads can help people with aphasia make a comeback. View full article.
(3/23/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake breaks down the benefits of coconut oil. View Full Article.
(3/19/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “What people are saying is, ‘I know I should be eating better. I feel bad about that, but I either don’t want to do it or I don’t have the motivation. I’m going to get a multivitamin and that’s going to make me feel a […]
(3/16/15) Clinical Professor Karen Jacobs quoted: “We’re offering ways that we can lighten the load — it’s not just the weight of the backpack that’s the issue. It’s how the child is carrying the backpack…Just having legislation to have a backpack not weigh more than 10 percent of a child’s body weight isn’t really looking […]
Thursday, April 16 8:00AM-9:00AM Newman, R. & Lyons, K. Improving the Integration of Occupational Therapy Services in Adult Cancer Rehabilitation. 8:00AM-9:00AM Molinksy, R., DeAngelis, T., Jacobs, K., Kardachi, J. & Milton, L., (SIS) EDSIS Faculty Subsection Annual Program: Practical Pedagogy Techniques for Beginner and Master Educators. 8:00AM-9:30AM Cason, J., Jacobs, K., Richmond, T. Telehealth: Evidence-Based […]
(3/13/15) Sargent students bring healthy living lessons from nutrition to fitness to inner city Boston community. View Full Article.
(3/16/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert Quote: “Taking gluten out of your diet does not guarantee that you have a healthy diet. You can have a very unhealthy gluten-free diet.” View Full Article.
Cara Stepp, assistant professor in the department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences has received a $500,000, five-year Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Stepp’s CAREER project will bridge the fields of augmented and alternative communication (AAC) and human-machine interfaces (HMI) by developing new technology to enable severely paralyzed […]