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Aging and Adult Language Disorders Lab |
The Aging and Adult Language Disorders Lab is concerned with the interaction between cognitive functions, such as memory and attention, and language processing ability in healthy aging adults as well as individuals with aphasia. Two main lines of research are conducted in the lab. The first line of my research program focuses on identifying changes in discourse processing across the adult lifespan and identifying why these changes occur. The second focuses on identifying the interaction between cognitive operations and linguistic units involved in discourse processing in adults with aphasia and then establishing and applying a treatment protocol to invoke change in discourse processing performance of adults with aphasia. |
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Announcements |
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10/30/09 - Lab Members presenting at the ASHA Convention in November. Gerasimos Fergadiotis, Stephanie Christensen and Heather Harris Wright will present a poster on how individuals with aphasia perform on a working memory task when the nature of the stimuli is manipulated.
10/26/09 - Cranfill, T. B., & Wright, H. H. Importance of Health-related Quality of Life for Persons with Aphasia, Their Significant Others, and SLPs: Who Do We Ask? Accepted for publication in Aphasiology.
9/16/2009 - Christensen, S. C., & Wright, H. H. Working Memory and Aphasia: What Three N-Back Tasks Reveal. Accepted for publication in Aphasiology. Congratulations Stephanie!
5/30/09 - Lab Members presented at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference in May. Stephanie Christensen and Heather Harris Wright presented a poster on verbal and non-verbal working memory in aphasia. Gerasimos Fergadiotis and Heather Harris Wright presented a poster on phonological working memory in adults with aphasia.
10/08/2008 - Lab Members presented at the ASHA Convention in November. Heather Harris Wright presented a seminar on discourse processing. Stephanie Christensen presented a technical session on laymen's perception of what makes a good story. Leah Carter presented a poster on discourse and cognitive processing abilities in younger and older adults.
09/23/2008 - SHS Professional Development Series: Principles of Motor Speech Disorders & Psychogenic Speech Disorders
The Department of Speech & Hearing Science hosted its 3rd Annual Workshop in honor of James Case, Ph.D., entitled "Principles of Motor Speech Disorders & Psychogenic Speech Disorders"
05/14/2008 - Heather Wright - Dean's Faculty Fellow
Heather Wright, Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing Science, was appointed a Dean's Faculty Fellow of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) for 2008-2009.
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