SLHS Students & Alums Receive ASHA Foundation Awards

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association‘s ASHFoundation awarded funding earlier this month to three Sargent College Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences students and two alumni. Awards included prestigious research grants and “Early years” scholarships. ASHFoundation funding allows “talented individuals to not only pursue immediate goals, but to continue to make a meaningful difference for years to come.”

Erin Meier, a postgraduate student, was awarded the New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship for her project “Structural and Effective Connectivity of Reorganized Language Networks in Aphasia.” The New Century Scholars Research Grant supports innovative investigations by individuals who are committed to teacher-investigator careers in the university or college academic environment or in external research institutes or laboratories.

Sabrina Horvath, a postgraduate student, was awarded the Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language – supported in part by Arlene and Noel Matkin Memorial Fund – for her project “Verb Learning Mechanisms in Late-to-Talk Two-Year Olds.” Doctoral students in communication sciences and disorders desiring to conduct research in early childhood language development are eligible to compete for this grant for a proposed 1-year study. 

Rachael Campbell, a graduate student, was awarded the ASHFoundation Graduate Scholarship. This scholarship recognizes masters or doctoral students in communication sciences and disorders who demonstrate academic achievement and promise. Four endowed scholarships give special priority to disability, international, minority, and National Student Speech Language Hearing Association member students.

Karen Chenausky, a recent BU alumna, received the ASHA Foundation Clinical Research Grant for her project “Identifying Signs of Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Minimally Verbal Children with Autism.” The grant supports scientists with a research doctorate within the discipline of communication sciences and disorders to support investigations that will advance knowledge of the efficacy of treatment and assessment practices. She currently works in the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Teresa Gray, a recent BU alumna, received the New Investigators Research Grant for her project “Bilingual aphasia: the intersection between lexical access and control mechanisms.” She currently works at San Francisco State University.