I'm interested in how thoughts inside the head become transmitted into speech -- in trying to specify what happens when we talk. The way I do that is by making computational models. I try to make computer programs that simulate the processes involved in speaking -- how we have ideas ... Continue to Article >>

The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity.I am glad to be here and to speak on this topic, which I think is extremely important. My disclosure slide, which like most disclosure slides is not terribly interesting, is adorned with a little quote at the bottom."Sometimes ... Continue to Article >>

The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. So thinking about implementation generally, what is implementation? Today, I'm just using the term as a construct to describe a lot of different types. But it is research that addresses complex, real-world variables in practice settings. And it ... Continue to Article >>

One of the things that we try to do in our lab is, we always wonder, "How can we improve clinical vestibular assessment?" What are the questions? What are the things we need to figure out or work out that are not sorted out yet? Dizziness and balance problems are ... Continue to Article >>

Currently, as a speech language pathologist working with patients with ALS, patients are given feeding tubes, PEG tubes, and they're given AAC devices. Really, the current state of play is they unfortunately have these crutches to help get them through, and it's more palliative treatment. Having worked in an ALS ... Continue to Article >>

Investigating the contributions of gesture to the linguistic outcomes of children with hearing loss I got my first NIH-funded grant, an R03, and the goal of the grant is to look at gesture development of infants and toddlers with hearing loss. My long-term goal is to look at, to identify ... Continue to Article >>

I'm Nancy Creaghead, and I am faculty at the University of Cincinnati. I have been there for 40 years. So, over the last ten years, we've had a number of projects going on in Head Start. And our goals primarily are to collaborate with teachers and to enhance the language ... Continue to Article >>

The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I'm going to begin just by placing PROs in the context of clinical outcome measures, measurement for aphasia in general, and then I'll spend a little bit of time discussing limitations of existing measures for aphasia with a ... Continue to Article >>

The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I'm going to start off with a quote from an occupational therapist, Carolyn Baum, that I really appreciate. She wrote as part of a Coulter Lecture that she gave a couple years ago about the notion of participation ... Continue to Article >>

The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity.I hope today to talk about the construct of participation, discuss some of the key measurement issues in addressing participation, provide some background information on why we needed a measure of participation for veterans, and then describe the process ... Continue to Article >>