Department: Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences

Department: Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences

Kimberly Crespo, PhD, CCC-SLP

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Aspects of the bilingual environment that may have consequences for how language and cognition develop and operate The nature and developmental trajectory of language impairment in bilingual children Input factors (e.g., code-switch input; speaker variability) and cognitive factors (e.g., attention, cognitive control) that modulate how learners extract the meanings of […]

SLHS PhD Student Hilary Miller Awarded Acoustical Society of America Scholarship

Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences doctoral candidate Hilary Miller was awarded one of two Raymond H. Stetson Scholarships in Phonetics and Speech Science from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Honoring the memory of pioneer phonetics and speech science investigator Professor Raymond H. Stetson, the scholarship facilitates research efforts of promising graduate students. The Stetson […]

Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences PhD Student Hilary Miller Awarded NIH Grant

Hilary Miller, a PhD candidate in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at Sargent College and graduate fellow at BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, was awarded a Predoctoral Individual National Research Service grant from the National Institutes of Health for her project “Predictors of Speech Motor Sequence Learning in Neurological Disorders.” Miller will […]

Scientific American Podcast with Frank Guenther: Why We Stutter

(04/13/2022, Scientific American) Expert quote: “…stuttering is a problem with the on/off switch. The motors and gears work fine. But the switch doesn’t always turn on when it should. Or it doesn’t stay on as long as it should. This results in delays in initiating a word. Or repetitions of the first part of the […]

“Understanding aphasia, the disorder cited in Bruce Willis’s retirement” – quoting Swathi Kiran in The Washington Post

(03/31/22, The Washington Post) Expert Quote: “Sometimes the road to rehabilitation is long and hard, but it’s possible to improve…Not being able to communicate with your family members and loved ones can be very frustrating and very isolating. And so family members really need to help the person feel comfortable taking every opportunity to communicate.” […]

Professor Jennifer Zuk Receives Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award

Jennifer Zuk, an assistant professor in Sargent’s Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, has been selected to receive a 2021 Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award, which recognizes exceptional scientists pursuing “early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research,” to advance the health of children. One of only 10 awardees nationwide this year, Zuk was selected […]

“Bruce Willis’s aphasia diagnosis brings awareness to communication disorder”

(03/30/22, Boston25news.com) Expert quote: ““People with post-stroke aphasia or primary progressive aphasia usually have trouble speaking aloud or in complete sentences. They also have trouble understanding what is being said to them. An actor’s role is to speak and communicate and recite from memory long sentences with emotion. And what aphasia does to a person […]

Kelly Hansen, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Kelly Egan Hansen is a practicing speech pathologist with nearly 20 years of clinical experience. Hansen is recognized as a board-certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders.  She continues to work at Brigham & Women’s Hospital serving medically complex adult patients who are experiencing dysphagia.  She has held positions at […]