Peter Meulenbroek, PhD, CCC-SLP, uses sociolinguistic description and theory about talk at work to develop new ways to assess and treat persons with TBI who hope to return to stable employment. He runs the Social Communication and Cognitive Abilities Lab where he has developed online assessment and treatment tools for social communication deficits after TBI. He is interested in increasing life participation after brain injury through employment and volunteer options. At the time of this interview, he was the chair of the ANCDS Writing Group for Traumatic Brain Injury and is currently the Editor for SIG2 Perspectives Journal as well as Assistant professor at The University of Kentucky.

Ep. 18 - A Conversation with Peter Meulenbroek: ANCDS Writing Group for Traumatic Brain Injury

Margaret Lehman Blake is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston.  Her research focuses on cognitive-communication disorders associated with right hemisphere brain damage to understand the underlying deficits and to develop treatments.  She is the author of The Right Hemisphere and Disorders of Cognition and Communication and the co-creator of RightHemisphere.org, a website designed to provide education and resources to patients, families, and clinicians.

Shannon M. Sheppard is an Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Chapman University and Director of the Cognition Rehabilitation And Neuroscience In Atypical Language Lab, the CRANIAL Lab. Her research focuses on investigating linguistic and prosodic deficits following left-hemisphere and right-hemisphere stroke using brain imaging including EEG and MRI. She is a founding member of the International Right Hemisphere Collaborative, which was founded to improve knowledge of and research for individuals with right hemisphere brain damage.

Ep. 19 - A Conversation with Margaret Lehman Blake and Shannon M. Sheppard: Right Hemisphere Damage

Tim Schut was raised on a farm near Chester, South Dakota. After graduating from Chester High School, Tim pursued a degree in Marketing at Northern State University.  After college, Tim has worked as a collector, a business development analyst, an inbound call center manager, a Financial Advisor, and a Private Banking Manager. Tim currently serves as a commercial real estate agent with NAI Sioux Falls and as a residential real estate agent with Signature Realty out of Madison, South Dakota. In June of 2021, Tim was diagnosed with Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech (PPAOS). Family relationships and support have been important to Tim to keep living his fullest life as his condition progresses.

Ep. 20 - A Conversation with Tim Schut: An Inside Perspective on Living with Primary Progressive…

Alaina S. Davis, Ph.D, CCC-SLP/L, CBIST (committee chair) is an associate professor at Howard University and a Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer. She has expertise in cognitive-communicative disorders associated with TBI. Her research lab is the Center for Cognitive-Communicative Skills, which focuses on adolescents and adults with sport-related concussion and return-to-learn/play/activity. Dr. Davis’ work utilizes the cognitive and communication styles of adolescents and adults from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds to implement cultural responsiveness in assessment and treatment.

Sucheta Kamath (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sucheta-kamath/) is an award-winning speech-language pathologist, a two-time TEDx (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYtXqO_Uy9c) speaker, and a tech-entrepreneur who has created ExQ® (https://exqinfiniteknowhow.com/); a cloud-based digital Executive Function curriculum for the middle and high school students that teaches Learning How to Learn. Sucheta holds six patents, and her AI-based technology solution creates personalized learning based on the benchmark assessment of the nine areas of Executive Function. Sucheta is a Professor of Practice at the Amrita University, one of the top five universities in India and also is the host of the podcast Full PreFrontal®: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function, where her invited guests range from neuroscientists, psychologists, educators, learning specialists, journalists, and leaders. In recent past, over a five-year period, Sucheta founded and (along with her Georgia Speech-Language Hearing Association colleagues) ran GSHA Gives! (https://gsa.memberclicks.net/gsha-gives), a free communication and Executive Function job-readiness training program for previously homeless, incarcerated, and disenfranchised men in inner-city Atlanta. Finally, Sucheta serves on many non-profit boards and is deeply committed to racial healing and interfaith community dialogue. 

Referenced Article: Shifting the Mindset of Racism Through Cognitive Learning Styles in Communication Sciences and Disorders (https://nbaslh.memberclicks.net/shifting-the-mindset-of-racism-through-cognitive-learning-styles-in-communication-sciences-and-disorders)

Ep. 21: A Conversation with Alaina Davis and Sucheta Kamath of the ANCDS REDI Committee

Dr. Therese O’Neil-Pirozzi (t.oneil-pirozzi@northeastern.edu) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northeastern University, a research faculty member of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard Medical School Traumatic Brain Injury Model System, and a practicing clinician. She is the author/co-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications, spanning a broad range of topics including brain health, cognitive-communicative function, and neuroplasticity. 

Professor Sohlberg (mckay@uoregon.edu) is known internationally for her pioneering work in the field of cognitive rehabilitation. Her research focuses on the development of treatments that help people with acquired brain injury manage cognitive impairments. Her work includes evaluating treatment protocols for individuals with persistent cognitive effects following concussive injuries, the design and evaluation of assistive technology tools to support adolescents and adults with acquired brain injury function optimally in their communities, and development of processes to facilitate patient centered goal setting. Dr. Sohlberg has contributed to a number of evidence-based practice guidelines supported by the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders & Sciences and sits on several national committees working on interdisciplinary practice in cognitive rehabilitation. She has authored two seminal textbooks in the field including her new 2023 text titled Transformation of Cognitive Rehabilitation. Professor Sohlberg has been teaching and conducting research at the University of Oregon since 1994. She teaches graduate courses related to cognitive rehabilitation and evidence-based practice and provides clinical supervision in the Brain Injury and Concussion Clinic (BrICC) in the College of Education HEDCO clinic. 

Byom, L., O’Neil-Pirozzi, T. M., Lemoncello, R., MacDonald, S., Meulenbroek, P., Ness, B., & Sohlberg, M. M. (2020). Social Communication following adult traumatic brain injury: A scoping review of theoretical models. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(3), 1735–1748. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_ajslp-19-00020

Meulenbroek, P., Ness, B., Lemoncello, R., Byom, L., MacDonald, S., O’Neil-Pirozzi, T. M., & Moore Sohlberg, M. (2019). Social Communication following traumatic brain injury part 2: Identifying effective treatment ingredients. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(2), 128–142. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2019.1583281

Meulenbroek, P., O’Neil-Pirozzi, T. M., Sohlberg, M. M., Lemoncello, R., Byom, L., Ness, B., MacDonald, S., & Phillips, B. (2022). Tutorial: The speech-language pathologist’s role in return to work for adults with traumatic brain injury. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(1), 188–202. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_ajslp-21-00129

O’Neil-Pirozzi, T. M., Kennedy, M. R. T., & Sohlberg, M. M. (2016). Evidence-based practice for the use of internal strategies as a memory compensation technique after brain injury: A systematic review. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 31(4). https://doi.org/10.1097/htr.0000000000000181

Sohlberg, M. M., MacDonald, S., Byom, L., Iwashita, H., Lemoncello, R., Meulenbroek, P., Ness, B., & O’Neil-Pirozzi, T. M. (2019). Social Communication following traumatic brain injury part I: State-of-the-art review of assessment tools. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(2), 115–127. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2019.1583280

Ep. 22: A Conversation with Therese O'Neil-Pirozzi & McKay Sohlberg of the ANCDS TBI Writing Group

Julie M. Liss, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Senior Associate Dean in the College of Health Solutions and Professor of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University. A certified speech-language pathologist, she is internationally recognized for advancing the use of artificial intelligence in speech-language pathology. Her work has focused on transforming clinical speech science into digital tools that can detect and track neurological disease, expand access to care, and support more precise clinical decision-making. As co-founder of Aural Analytics, Dr. Liss has helped pioneer speech-based biomarkers and AI-driven assessment platforms now in use around the world. She is also a thought leader in promoting the ethical and responsible application of AI in healthcare and scientific publishing. Beyond her research and innovation, Dr. Liss has served in key leadership roles with ASHA, including as Editor-in-Chief and now Chair of the ASHA Journals Board, where she is helping shape policy around emerging technologies in scholarly communication. In recognition of her impact on the profession and her leadership at the intersection of speech science and technology, Dr. Liss is receiving Honors of the Association from ASHA in 2025.

Visar Berisha, Ph.D., is a Professor at Arizona State University with a joint appointment in the College of Engineering and the College of Health Solutions and Associate Dean for Research Commercialization in the College of Engineering. His main research interests reside at the intersection of AI and the human voice. He has developed and commercialized new speech AI models for healthcare. This work is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation. This work has led to many academic publications, several patents, and two companies. Dr. Berisha's work has been featured in the New York Times, on ESPN, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, and a number of other international media outlets. He was the 2023-2024 ISCA Distinguished Lecturer.

References:

Berisha, V., & Liss, J. M. (2024). Responsible development of clinical speech AI: Bridging the
gap between clinical research and technology. npj Digital Medicine, 7, Article 208.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01199-1

Liss, J., & Berisha, V. (2024). Operationalizing clinical speech analytics: Moving from features
to measures for real-world clinical impact. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(11), 4226-4232.

Liss, J., & Berisha, V. (2020, August). How will artificial intelligence reshape speech-language
pathology services and practice in the future? ASHA Journals Academy. https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2020/08/how-will-artificial-intelligence-reshape-speech-language-pathology-services-and-practice-in-the-future/

Xu, L., Chen, K., Mueller, K. D., Liss, J., & Berisha, V. (2025). Articulatory precision from
connected speech as a marker of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease risk-enriched cohorts. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 103(2), 476-486.

Yeo, E., Liss, J., Berisha, V., & Mortensen, D. (2025). Applications of Artificial Intelligence for
Cross-language Intelligibility Assessment of Dysarthric Speech. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.15858


Ep. 23: A Conversation with Julie Liss and Visar Berisha on How AI is Shaping Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology

ANCDS Podcast Ep. 1 - Interview with Dr. Julius Fridriksson: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and the Treatment of Persons with Aphasia

Topic: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in the Treatment of Persons with Aphasia
Speaker: Julius Fridriksson, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Aphasia Laboratory
University of South Carolina
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Arnold School of Public Health
Columbia, SC 29208

Ep. 1 - Interview with Dr. Julius Fridriksson: tDCS and the Treatment of Persons with Aphasia

ANCDS Podcast Ep. 2 - An Interview With Felicity Bright: The Patient’s Engagement and Experience with You, the Speech Pathologist

Felicity Bright is a speech and language therapist and lecturer at Aukland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Felicity’s research is situated at the intersections of rehabilitation, professional practice and clinical education.  Her current research focuses on how students and rehabilitation providers interact with and engage people in rehabilitation.  In this episode, we discussed what engagement is, how to assess and promote it, along with the role of the therapeutic relationship and hope.  Felicity can be found on twitter at @flissbright or at https://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/health-sciences/physiotherapy/lecturers/felicity-bright.

The following open-access papers related to our conversation are available for download:
 
"A conceptual review of engagement in healthcare and rehabilitation": https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/9453
 
"Implementing a client-centred approach in rehabilitation: An autoethnography": https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/9469

"Hope in people with aphasia": https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/5815


Ep. 2 - An Interview With Felicity Bright: The Patient’s Engagement and Experience...

ANCDS Podcast Ep. 3 - An Interview With Leanne Togher: speechBITE and Challenges to Evidence-Based Practice

Professor Leanne Togher is a speech pathologist and researcher based at The University of Sydney, Australia. She is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Principal Research Fellow of The University of Sydney. Leanne specialises in communication disorders following traumatic brain injury and stroke. Her research examines treatment efficacy and communication partner training for families, friends and carers of people with acquired brain injury. Leanne is also the Director of the evidence based practice speechBITE website (speechbite.com).

Information about TBI Express partner training can be found at http://sydney.edu.au/health-sciences/tbi-express/

Ep. 3 - An Interview With Leanne Togher: speechBITE and Challenges to Evidence-Based Practice

ANCDS Podcast Ep. 4 -  Treatment of Aphasia in Persons with Primary Progressive Aphasia

Maya is a speech-language pathologist by training. She did her master’s and doctoral work at the University of Arizona,  in the lab of Dr. Pelagie Beeson. Subsequently, she completed postdoctoral training in the lab of Dr. Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is the director of the Aphasia Research and Treatment Lab. She teaches courses on aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders as well as the cognitive and neural bases of speech and language. Her research interests lie in the nature and treatment of aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders, with a special focus on primary progressive aphasia.

Aphasia Research and Treatment Lab 
https://moody.utexas.edu/aphasialab

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration
http://www.theaftd.org


Ep. 4 - Treatment of Aphasia in Persons with Primary Progressive Aphasia

Shirley Morganstein first learned about aphasia while an undergraduate at NYU.  She completed her Master’s degree at the University of Minnesota, and, as she says, was privileged to have Hildred Schuell and her staff at the Minnesota VA Hospital as teachers.  After her return to NYC, she worked at Rusk Institute, with Martha Taylor Sarno, The Mount Sinai Hospital, and then the Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation in New Jersey.  In 2004, she and her long-time colleague, Marilyn Certner Smith, formed a Life Participation practice in Montclair, called Speaking of Aphasia.  Now semi-retired, she continues to see patients and is an adjunct professor at New York University.  She has published two aphasia workbooks with Marilyn Center Smith, and maintains a blog on Word Press called Relationship and Reflection in Aphasia Therapy.  In her free time, she enjoys writing and exploring the art of Ikebana.

Relationship and Reflection in Aphasia Therapy blog - https://reflectioninaphasia.wordpress.com
Speaking Of Aphasia Twitter handle ‏@SOALLC - https://twitter.com/SOALLC


Ep. 5 - An Interview with Shirley Morganstein: Reflections on Relational Practice

In this episode of the podcast, members of the ANCDS Board Certification Committee discuss what it means to be board certified in neurologic communications disorders, what the process is like, and what reviewers looks for in submitted cases.  Joining this conversation are Kathryn Atkinson (SLP Clinical Supervisor, Central Michigan University), Edna Babbitt (Research SLP, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), and Gail Ramsberger (Associate Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder). Go to ancds.org for more information on Board Certification.

Ep. 6 - ANCDS Board Certification Discussion

Rebecca Lewthwaite received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is Director of Rehabilitation Outcomes Management, and Director of Research and Education in Physical Therapy at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles.  She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California. Dr. Lewthwaite’s research focuses on the role of motivational enhancements in motor performance and learning, in diverse individuals, from those undergoing physical rehabilitation to developing and high-performing athletes.

Wulf, G., & Lewthwaite, R. (2016). Optimizing performance through intrinsic motivation and attention for learning: The OPTIMAL theory of motor learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(5), 1382-1414. 

Freedman, S. E., Maas, E., Caligiuri, M. P., Wulf, G., & Robin, D. A. (2007). Internal versus external: Oral-motor performance as a function of attentional focus. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50(1), 131-136.


http://www.optimalmotorlearning.com

Ep. 7 -  An Interview with Rebecca Lewthwaite: Motivation Attention and Motor Learning

In this interview, we talk to Dr. Natalie Douglas about implementation science, treating cognition in nursing home residents with dementia, and the challenges of being an SLP in a skilled nursing facility.  Dr. Douglas is an assistant professor in the Communication Disorders Department of Central Michigan University.  Her research aims to advance implementation science, communication and quality of life interventions for people with dementia, and life participation approaches to the treatment of aphasia. She is actively involved with the Global Implementation Initiative and serves on an international committee charged with consolidating tools to drive both organizational and individual change as it relates to evidence-based practice implementation.

Ep. 8 - An Interview with Natalie Douglas: Evidence Based Practice in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Dr. Julie Wambaugh, Ph.D., CCC/SLP is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Utah and is a Research Career Scientist at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System. She teaches graduate courses in Aphasia and Motor Speech Disorders. She has been conducting research focused on clinically-applicable treatments for apraxia of speech and aphasia for many years and has published extensively on these topics. Her research has been funded for many years by the Department of Veterans Affairs. She has been Chair of the AOS Treatment Guidelines writing committee and is currently an active member of that committee. Dr. Wambaugh is an ASHA Fellow.
 
Strand, E. A., Duffy, J. R., Clark, H. M., & Josephs, K. (2014). The apraxia of speech rating scale: a tool for diagnosis and description of apraxia of speech. Journal of Communication Disorders, 51, 43-50. 
 
Full article at:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254321/
 
Ballard, K. J., Azizi, L., Duffy, J. R., McNeil, M. R., Halaki, M., Oâ€™Dwyer, N., . . . Robin, D. A. (2016). A predictive model for diagnosing stroke-related apraxia of speech. Neuropsychologia, 81, 129-139. 
 
Full article at:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286928553_A_predictive_model_for_diagnosing_stroke-related_apraxia_of_speech

Ep. 9 - An interview with Julie Wambaugh - Apraxia of Speech

McKay Moore Sohlberg is a Full Professor and Director of the Communication Disorders & Sciences Program at University of Oregon, and a Fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association. Dr. Sohlberg has published numerous articles, chapters, and manuals on managing cognitive impairments following acquired brain injury and is co-author of two leading textbooks in the field. She has been funded on a number of federal projects supporting the development and evaluation of assistive technology to deliver cognitive rehabilitation, and to help individuals with cognitive impairment more fully integrate into their communities. 
 
EGAS evaluation
The eGAS app is available as a beta app using Apple’s TestFlight service.  We can add a bunch of email addresses to a 60 day test session, and then an invitation code will be sent to all the email addresses.  Then, you just download the Apple TestFlight app, paste in the invitation code, and you’ll get the app for 60 days. After 60 days, if you want to keep trying it out, we can start a new test session. If people want to try it, they can send their email address to:mckay@uoregon.edu

Ep. 10 - A Conversation with McKay Moore Sohlberg - Cognitive Rehabilitation

Margaret Lehman Blake, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston. Her research focuses on cognitive-communication disorders after right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) and mild traumatic brain injury. Her work includes basic research on underlying deficits and treatment studies. She is the author of The Right Hemisphere and Disorders of Cognition and Communication as well as numerous articles and chapters on RHD. Dr. Blake has presented nationally and internationally on evidence-based practice for disorders associated with RHD as well as ethics for speech-language pathologists. She served as the President of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders & Sciences (ANCDS) in 2014, and has held leadership roles in the Clinical Aphasiology Conference and the Neurogenic Communication Disorders special interest group of ASHA. 

UH Communication Sciences & Disorders
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.uh.edu_class_comd_&d=DwIF-g&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp-j14fFwh71U&r=fuKSPxqi7q0yS0MzHXudyPNDmzLGoplPbbV_GrLsg4U&m=JmHHl9vWDY74X8R7w68WkYBRbnHVI2sAOGAVaKYGsD0&s=pj5GGIvDRzNFG_5tIBuFMhmihy9f3_u3-t_RIyBVha4&e=

The Awareness of Social Inferences Test  https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.pearsonclinical.co.uk_Psychology_AdultCognitionNeuropsychologyandLanguage_AdultAttentionExecutiveFunction_TheAwarenessofSocialInferenceTest-28TASIT-29_TheAwarenessofSocialInferenceTest-28TASIT-29.aspx&d=DwIF-g&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp-j14fFwh71U&r=fuKSPxqi7q0yS0MzHXudyPNDmzLGoplPbbV_GrLsg4U&m=JmHHl9vWDY74X8R7w68WkYBRbnHVI2sAOGAVaKYGsD0&s=VJH5dcuBet_a8h7rK6mCVF37uj37_KomOknHUcEi85I&e=

Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning & Executive Strategies 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ccdpublishing.com_favres.aspx&d=DwIF-g&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp-j14fFwh71U&r=fuKSPxqi7q0yS0MzHXudyPNDmzLGoplPbbV_GrLsg4U&m=JmHHl9vWDY74X8R7w68WkYBRbnHVI2sAOGAVaKYGsD0&s=XBsT7QnJ6gRoln6SV6Ne7WTYWKUZfY5Jn7xLIj9lm1s&e=

The Montreal Protocol for the Evaluation of Communication 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.assbi.com.au_montreal-2520protocol.html&d=DwIF-g&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp-j14fFwh71U&r=fuKSPxqi7q0yS0MzHXudyPNDmzLGoplPbbV_GrLsg4U&m=JmHHl9vWDY74X8R7w68WkYBRbnHVI2sAOGAVaKYGsD0&s=gIOtul3aSkaKVaoUVGnWAeGozqCXQ3Sbh8ezI0FPdBo&e=

Ep. 11 - A Conversation with Margaret Blake - Right Hemisphere Damage and Disorders

Dr. Jacqueline Laures-Gore is an Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Georgia State University. She received her PhD in Communicative Disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She directs the Aphasia and Motor Speech Disorders Research Lab at Georgia State University (esc.education.gsu.edu/aphasia). Her research interests include aphasia, stress, depression, and integrative health. Her work has been funded by the NIH, ANCDS, as well as other entities.

Rebecca Shisler Marshall, PhD (CCC-SLP) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Special Education at the University of Georgia. She is also a mindfulness instructor, certified life coach and yoga instructor, reiki master, and shamanic practitioner. Her primary research interests include integrative treatments such as mindfulness for aphasia, attention, and aging.
Dr. Marshall's Aphasia and Aging Research Lab - aphasiauga.wixsite.com/aphasiauga
Dr. Marshall's Profile - https://coe.uga.edu/directory/profiles/rshisler

Ep. 12 - A Conversation w/ Jacqueline Laures-Gore & Rebecca Marshall: Integrative Health Approaches…

Ramani Voleti, M.S., CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, is an assistant teaching professor and speech language pathologist at the Gebbie Clinic at Syracuse University. She has several years of experience working in different settings and in different countries (India, Malaysia, Botswana, and US). Her clinical and research interests include acquired neurogenic speech/language disorders, dysphagia, and voice disorders in adults. She teaches courses in neurogenic communication disorders and professional issues in medical settings. She is certified in Lee Silverman Voice Treatment and is board certified in neurogenic communication disorders in adults by ANCDS.

Clinic webpage:
http://gebbie.syr.edu/people/personnel-pages/voleti-ramani.html

Ep. 13 - A Conversation w/ Ramani Voleti: A Personal Experience w/ Board Certification and Aspects…

Heather Clark, PhD, BC-ANCDS, is Chair of Speech Pathology in the Department of Neurology and Associate Professor in the College of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She is board-certified by the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Her clinical responsibilities include differential diagnosis of communication and swallowing disorders in adults and children. Dr. Clark serves as co-investigator in several projects examining the nature of speech, language, and swallowing impairment in degenerative neurologic disease.

Ep. 14 - A Conversation w/ Heather Clark - Diagnosing & Treating Motor Speech Disorders & Clinical…

Ronda Winans-Mitrik, MA, CCC-SLP, has been a Speech-Language Pathologist since 2009. She began her career at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) by providing intensive, evidence-based aphasia treatment to veterans and active duty service members from across the United States through the Program for Intensive Aphasia Treatment & Education (PIRATE). Since that time, she has provided countless hours of aphasia assessment and intervention services to patients with a wide range of aphasia severities. During her time with PIRATE, she developed the clinical processes for in-person and remote candidacy evaluations and follow-up using tele-practice technology. She is a recipient of the 2012 Association of Veteran Affairs Speech Language Pathologists (AVASLP) Outstanding Achievement Award for her work with the PIRATE Clinical Team and co-authored a peer-reviewed manuscript in 2014 that details the PIRATE program’s description, rationale, clinical processes, and outcomes.

Dr. Patrick J. Doyle is a Speech Language Pathologist whose clinical and research work is focused on the rehabilitation of language processing disorders following brain injury. He is an Associate Professor of Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh, a Fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association, and has received the Honors of the Association of VA Speech Language Pathologists. Dr. Doyle previously served as a Visiting Scientist in the Assessment, Classification and Epidemiology Unit of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland where he collaborated on the revision of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF). He is the developer of the Burden of Stroke Scale (BOSS) and the Founding Director of the Program for Intensive Residential Aphasia Treatment & Education (PIRATE).

https://www.pittsburgh.va.gov/PIRATE/index.asp

Ep. 15 - A Conversation w/ Ronda Winans-Mitrik and Patrick Doyle: Intensive Aphasia Treatment

Brendan Constantine is a nationally recognized poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many of the nation’s poetry standards, including Best American Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly, and Poem-a-Day.

His first book, ‘Letters to Guns’ (2009 Red Hen Press) received wide acclaim and is now taught in schools across the country. His most recent collections are ‘Dementia, My Darling’ (2016) from Red Hen Press, and a chapbook ‘Bouncy Bounce’ (2018) from Blue Horse Press. 

Mr. Constantine has received support and commissions from the Getty Museum, James Irvine Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on TED ED, NPR's All Things Considered, KPFK's Poet’s Café, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently teaches at the Windward School.

“The Opposites Game” -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO6527S5JOU

Brendan Constantine reads at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mplyVOXWwfM

"The Translation" by Brendan Constantine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RZ0-I9hG9c

Ep. 16 Brendan Constantine – A conversation with Brendan Constantine about poetry and aphasia

Nayiri Adessian is a licensed and certified speech language pathologist who earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science from Montclair State University and her Master of Science degree in Communication Disorders and Sciences from California State University, Northridge in May 2018. Nayiri completed her clinical fellowship at Nancy Sedat and Associates, an out-patient private practice, and continues to work there as a therapist. She evaluates and treats patients with adult neurogenic communication, voice and swallowing disorders. She has a special interest in working with individuals with aphasia.

Zack DeWall is a clinical fellow in speech pathology at the Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute within the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He received his master’s degree in speech pathology from Vanderbilt University in August of 2019

Hillary X. Enclade is currently a speech-language pathologist at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. She received her master’s degree in communicative disorders from California State University, Northridge in Spring of 2018 and completed a clinical fellowship at West Los Angeles VA Medical Center in August 2019.

Ep. 17 - The Clinical Fellowship Year Experience

The purposes of the Academy are professional, clinical, educational, scientific and charitable and are ultimately to encourage the highest quality of life for those with communication disorders. 

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