Swathi Kiran, PhD, CCC-SLP

Lists of published works: Google Scholar 

• Gilmore, N., Mirman, D., & Kiran, S. (in press). Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury Show Longitudinal Improvements in Cognition After Intensive Cognitive Rehabilitation, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.
• Billot, A., Lai, S., Varkanitsa, M., Braun, E. J., Rapp, B., Parrish, T. B., Higgins, J., Kurani, A. S., Caplan, D., Thompson, C. K., Ishwar, P., Betke, M., & Kiran, S. (2022, Jan 26). Multimodal Neural and Behavioral Data Predict Response to Rehabilitation in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia. Stroke, STROKEAHA121036749. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.036749
• Gilbert, C., Gilmore, N. Mooradian, G., Citorik, A. & Kiran, S. (in press). Multi-level treatment outcomes for young adults with acquired brain injury following intensive, integrated cognitive rehabilitation situated within a college semester context. Brain Injury
• Hill, A.J., Paik, N.J., Kiran, S., Tonin, P. (2021) Editorial: Tele-NeuroRehabilitation. Frontier In Neurology12:761690. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.761690. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34867746; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8638739.
•  Johnson, J.P., Meier, E.L., Pan, Y., Kiran, S. (2021) Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy. Brain and Language Dec;223:105042. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105042. Epub 2021 Oct 22. PubMed PMID: 34695614
• Carpenter, E., Penaloza, C., Rao, L., & Kiran, S. (2021). Clustering and switching in verbal fluency across varying degrees of cognitive control demands: Evidence from healthy bilinguals and bilinguals with aphasia. Neurobiology of Language. doi:10.1162/nol_a_00053, NIMSID1768337
• Boyle, M., Gordon, J., Harnish. S., Kiran, S., Martin, N., Rose, M., Salis, C. (2021). Evaluating Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches to Interventions for Aphasia within the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS). Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Nov 23;. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.07.816. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34822844.
• Fridriksson, J., Basilakos, A.,…Kiran, S., Martin, N. (in press) Demystifying the complexity of aphasia treatment: Application of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS). Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.08.025. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34748758.
• Basilakos, A., Hula, W.D., Johnson, L.P., Kiran, S., Walker, G.M., Fridriksson, J.(2021). Defining the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Action in Aphasia Therapies: Applying the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System Framework to Research and Practice in Aphasia.  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2021 Nov 5;. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.10.017. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34748759.
• Gilmore, N., Yucel, M. A., Li, X., Boas, D. A., & Kiran, S. (2021). Investigating language and domain-general processing in neurotypicals and individuals with aphasia — a functional near-infrared spectroscopy feasibility study, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, section Brain Imaging and Stimulation, 15:728151. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.728151, PubMed PMID: 34602997
• Gilmore, N., Katz, D. I., & Kiran, S. (2021). Acquired Brain Injury in Adults: A Review of Pathophysiology, Recovery, and Rehabilitation. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. doi:doi:10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00013
• Peñaloza, C, Scimeca, M, Gaona, A, Carpenter, E, Mukadam N, Gray, T, Shamapant S and Kiran, S (2021) Telerehabilitation for Word Retrieval Deficits in Bilinguals With Aphasia: Effectiveness and Reliability as Compared to In-person Language Therapy. Frontiers In Neurology. 12:589330. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.589330
• Li, R., Perrachione, T., Tourville, J., & Kiran, S. (2021). Representation of Semantic Typicality in Brain Activation in Healthy Adults and Individuals with Aphasia: a Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis. Neuropsychologia, 107893. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107893
• Grasemann, U., Penaloza, C., Dekhtyar, M., Miikkulainen, R., & Kiran, S. (2021). Predicting language treatment response in bilingual aphasia using neural network-based patient models. Nature Scientific Reports, 11(1), 10497. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89443-6 PMID: 34006902
• Braley, M., Pierce, J. S., Saxena, S., De Oliveira, E., Taraboanta, L., Anantha, V., . . . Kiran, S. (2021). A Virtual, Randomized, Control Trial of a Digital Therapeutic for Speech, Language, and Cognitive Intervention in Post-stroke Persons With Aphasia. Frontiers in Neurology, Neurorehabilitation 12(34). doi:10.3389/fneur.2021.62678, PubMed PMID: 33643204; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7907641.
• Iorga M, Higgins J, Caplan D, Zinbarg R, Kiran S, Thompson CK, Rapp B, Parrish TB. (2021) Predicting language recovery in post-stroke aphasia using behavior and functional MRI. Nature Scientific Reports.  Apr 19;11(1):8419. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-88022-z. PubMed PMID: 33875733; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8055660.
• von Lühmann A, Zheng Y, Ortega-Martinez A, Kiran S, Somers DC, Cronin-Golomb A, Awad LN, Ellis TD, Boas DA, Yücel MA. Towards Neuroscience of the Everyday World (NEW) using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. (2021). Curr Opin Biomed Eng.  Jun;18. doi: 10.1016/j.cobme.2021.100272. Epub 2021 Feb 3. PubMed PMID: 33709044; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7943029.
• Carpenter, E., Rao, L., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2020). Verbal fluency as a measure of lexical access and cognitive control in bilingual persons with aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(11), 1341-1362. doi:10.1080/02687038.2020.1759774, NIHMS1588196
• Centeno, J. G., Kiran, S., & Armstrong, E. (2020). Epilogue: Harnessing the experimental and clinical resources to address service imperatives in multiethnic aphasia caseloads. Aphasiology, 34(11), 1451-1455. doi:10.1080/02687038.2020.1781421
• Centeno, J. G., Kiran, S., & Armstrong, E. (2020). Aphasia management in growing multiethnic populations. Aphasiology, 34(11), 1314-1318. doi:10.1080/02687038.2020.1781420
• Peñaloza, C., Dekhtyar, M., Scimeca, M., Carpenter, E., Mukadam, N., & Kiran, S. (2020). Predicting treatment outcomes for bilinguals with aphasia using computational modeling: Study protocol for the PROCoM randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2020 Nov 18;10(11):e040495. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040495. PubMed PMID: 33208330; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7677370.
• Butler, L. K., Kiran, S., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2020). Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Study of Speech and Language Impairment Across the Life Span: A Systematic Review. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 29(3), 1674-1701. doi:10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00050, PubMed PMID: 32640168; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7893520.
• Lukic, S., Thompson, C. K., Barbieri, E., Chiappetta, B., Bonakdarpour, B., Kiran, S.,…Caplan, D. (2020). Common and distinct neural substrates of sentence production and comprehension. NeuroImage, 224, 117374. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117374, Epub 2020 Sep 17. PubMed PMID: 32949711.
• Varkanitsa, M., Peñaloza, C., Charidimou, A., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2020). White Matter Hyperintensities Predict Response to Language Treatment in Poststroke Aphasia. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 34(10), 945–953. https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968320952809, PubMed PMID: 32924765; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7572835.
• Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Pan, Y., & Kiran, S. (2020). Pre-treatment graph measures of a functional semantic network are associated with naming therapy outcomes in chronic aphasia. Brain and Language, 207, 104809. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104809, PubMed PMID: 32505940; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7338231.
• Li, R., Li, W., & Kiran, S. (2020). Effect of Mandarin Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) in Mandarin-English bilinguals with aphasia: A single-case experimental design. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 1-30. doi:10.1080/09602011.2020.1773278, NIHMS 1599767
• Angelopoulou, G., Meier, E. L., Kasselimis, D., Pan, Y., Tsolakopoulos, D., Velonakis, G., . . . Kiran, S. (2020). Investigating Gray and White Matter Structural Substrates of Sex Differences in the Narrative Abilities of Healthy Adults. Frontiers in neuroscience, 13(1424). doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.01424, PubMed PMID: 32063823; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7000661.
• Dekhtyar, M., Braun, E. J., Billot, A., Foo, L., & Kiran, S. (2020). Videoconference Administration of the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised: Feasibility and Validity. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 1-15. doi:10.1044/2019_AJSLP-19-00023, PubMed PMID: 32191122; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7842871.
• Dekhtyar, M., Kiran, S., & Gray, T. (2020). Is bilingualism protective for adults with aphasia? Neuropsychologia, 139, 107355. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107355
• Gu, Y., Bahrani, M., Billot, A., Lai, S., Braun, E. J., Varkanitsa, M., . . . Betke, M. (2020, June 30-July 3, 2020). A Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Post-stroke Aphasia Recovery: A Pilot Study. Paper presented at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA ’20), Corfu, Greece.
• Higgins, J., Barbieri, E., Wang, X., Mack, J., Caplan, D., Kiran, S., . . . Parrish, T. (2020). Reliability of BOLD signals in chronic stroke-induced aphasia. European Journal of Neuroscience doi:10.1111/ejn.14739, PubMed PMID: 32282965.
• Munsell, M., De Oliveira, E., Saxena, S., Godlove, J., & Kiran, S. (2020). Closing the Digital Divide in Speech, Language, and Cognitive Therapy: Cohort Study of the Factors Associated With Technology Usage for Rehabilitation. Journal of medical Internet research, 22(2), e16286. doi:10.2196/16286, PubMed PMID: 32044752; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7055773.
• Gilmore, N., Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., & Kiran, S. (2020). Typicality-based semantic treatment for anomia results in multiple levels of generalisation. Neuropsychol Rehabil, 30(5), 802-828. doi:10.1080/09602011.2018.1499533, PubMed PMID: 30027828; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6339853.

• Kiran, S. (November, 2021). The many facets of language production in bilingual aphasia. The International Workshop on Language Production. Online/Virtual
• Kiran, S. (May, 2021). Understanding, facilitating and predicting recovery in aphasia. Keynote. Speech Pathology Australia annual convention. Online/Virtual
• Kiran, S. (November, 2021). Advances and challenges in predicting recovery of language after stroke: The pursuit of precision rehabilitation. Brain Imaging Research Center, The University Of Connecticut. Online/Virtual
• Kiran, S. (September, 2021). Understanding, facilitating and predicting recovery of language after acquired brain injury. University of Wisconsin Colloquium Series. Online/Virtual
• Kiran, S. (June, 2021). Understanding, facilitating and predicting recovery of language after acquired brain injury. BrainMap. Organized by A. A. Martinos Center. Online/Virtual
• Kiran, S. (June, 2021). Optimizing the Intensity of Aphasia Therapy. Neurorehabilitation 2021. Online/Virtual
• Kiran, S. (May, 2020). Predicting language recovery in aphasia. Aphasia Center for Research Excellence, Australia. Online/Virtual
• 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. (2020, October) Predicting post-stroke aphasia recovery from multimodal neuroimaging data. Accepted for oral presentation at the 11th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation. (held virtually)
• Billot A., Lai S., Varkanitsa M., Braun E.J., Rapp B., Parrish T.B., 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. Accepted as a poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. (held virtually)
• 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. (held virtually)
• 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. (held 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. (held virtually)
• Cordella, C., Munsell, M., Godlove, J., Anantha, V. & Kiran, S. (2021, November). Patient-level predictors of therapy outcomes following self-managed telerehabilitation. Accepted for oral presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Washington, D.C. , USA. (held 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. (held virtually)
• 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 (held virtually)
• 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, (held virtually)
• 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. (held virtually)
• 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. (held virtually)
• 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, (held virtually)
• 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.
• 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).
• 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. (held virtually)
• 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, (held virtually)