{"id":65170,"date":"2020-11-02T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=65170"},"modified":"2020-11-03T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:16:27","slug":"speech-language-hearing-sciences-phd-candidate-michael-scimeca-receives-ashf-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/speech-language-hearing-sciences-phd-candidate-michael-scimeca-receives-ashf-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"SLHS PhD Candidate Michael Scimeca Receives ASHF Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment65174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment65174\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2020\/11\/Scimeca_headshot_11-1-2020-557x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65174\" width=\"219\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2020\/11\/Scimeca_headshot_11-1-2020-557x636.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2020\/11\/Scimeca_headshot_11-1-2020-768x876.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2020\/11\/Scimeca_headshot_11-1-2020.jpg 879w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2020\/11\/Scimeca_headshot_11-1-2020-688x785.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment65174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Scimeca,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiaresearch\/people\/michael-scimeca\/\">Michael Scimeca<\/a>, a PhD candidate in Speech Language &amp; Hearing Sciences, received a Graduate Student Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation), the philanthropic arm of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).<\/p>\n<p>Scimeca is a graduate student in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiaresearch\/\">Aphasia Research Lab<\/a> where he is working on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FV-ZbPmxqkE\">Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes using Computational Modeling in bilingual aphasia (PROCoM)<\/a> with the project PI and lab director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/swathi-kiran-ph-d-ccc-slp\/\">Professor Swathi Kiran<\/a>. As part of the PROCom project, Scimeca is evaluating and treating bilingual Spanish-English speaking participants who have experienced a stroke. His research interests include the assessment and treatment for bilingual aphasia and acquired reading and writing disorders following stroke.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second consecutive year the ASHF Graduate Student Scholarship has been awarded to a Sargent student. Roxanne Segina, in the master of science in speech-language pathology program, received the award in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Scimeca, a PhD candidate in Speech Language &amp; Hearing Sciences, received a Graduate Student Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation), the philanthropic arm of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Scimeca is a graduate student in the Aphasia Research Lab where he is working on Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes using Computational Modeling in bilingual aphasia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5825,"featured_media":65174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5145,5143],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65170"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65195,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65170\/revisions\/65195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}