Swathi Kiran, the James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation, and Clinical Professor Elizabeth Hoover have been recognized by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for their contributions to the professions of speech-language pathology and speech & hearing science. Kiran received the Honors of the Association, the highest award ASHA bestows, for her distinguished contributions […]
Using Cognitive Approaches to Working with People Who Stutter, an international workshop, was held in Boston, Massachusetts, from June 3-7, 2024, and co-sponsored by the Memphis-based Stuttering Foundation and Boston University’s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences. Twenty-three speech-language pathologists from around the world were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants. “Since […]
Kidd-Gilchrist Spoke About Nonprofit Empowering SLPs, People Who Stutter By Matthew EdwardsPhotos by Ross Richards Michael Kidd-Gilchrist visited Sargent College on Friday, April 5 to speak with speech-language pathology students about his stuttering journey and the recent work he has spearheaded through his nonprofit, Change & Impact, to advance access to speech therapy for people […]
Sargent speech, language & hearing sciences PhD students Erin Carpenter and Michael Scimeca received the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) from the National Institutes of Health. Erin is a member of the Aphasia Research Laboratory, and her research interests include bilingual and monolingual aphasia rehabilitation, neural […]
Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Glottic carcinoma Airway reconstructive surgery Voice outcomes
Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Language and social-cognitive development in a number of different populations, especially autism, Williams syndrome, and developmental language disorders. More recently, her research has explored the connections between brain structure and function and cognitive/behavioral impairments in people with these disorders at different ages, from infancy through young adulthood.
Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Jessica Pisegna researches adult voice and swallowing disorders. In the world of medical speech language pathology, she particularly enjoys the detective-like skills required to figure out why someone may have trouble voicing, swallowing, or breathing. She specializes in rehabilitating adults with swallowing disorders caused from stroke, head/neck cancer, trauma, and […]
Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Amy Lieberman explores how deaf children acquire American Sign Language (ASL), with a focus in how children learn to perceive language and information through the visual modality. She leads an NIH-funded investigation of word learning and attention in deaf and hard-of-hearing children, and also studies how early language experience influences […]
Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Naomi Caselli leads a research team that documents the structure of the American Sign Language lexicon, the effects of language deprivation on language acquisition, and developing AI-enabled sign language technology. She is a co-developer of ASL-LEX, an award-winning lexical database documenting the ASL lexicon. She also leads an NIH-funded investigation […]
Selected Publications Mitchell, C.M., Cler, G.J., Fager, S.K., Contessa, P., Roy, S.H., De Luca, G., Kline, J.C., & Vojtech, J.M. “Ability-based Keyboards for Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Understanding How Individuals’ Movement Patterns Translate to More Efficient Keyboards,” In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, […]