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Message From the Chair
Dear alumni and friends of theDepartment of CommunicationSciences and Disorders,
It’s been a wonderful 2019 for ourdepartment here at the Institute.
We welcomed 62 new master’sstudents who arrived in September from across thecountry and around the world. In addition to beginningtheir clinical work in the Speech, Language, and LiteracyCenter at the Sanders IMPACT Practice Center, theyparticipated in our increasingly vibrant interprofessionaleducation program.
We also expanded our ongoing relationship with thenearby Harvard-Kent Elementary School, running ourliteracy enrichment camp this summer to prevent summerslump in reading skills. The project was directed again byJoanna Christodoulou with significant assistance fromother CSD faculty members and current CSD students.
Our research faculty have continued with great successon their funded projects and have obtained new grants aswell. As co-directors of the Cognitive NeuroscienceGroup, Yael Arbel, Lauryn Zipse and Sofia Vallila-Rohterhave mentored more than a dozen students in projectsinvestigating learning in children and adults with variousdisabilities using eye-tracking and evoked potentials. AndJordan Green’s lab continues to investigate speech andfeeding disorders in infants and adults with ALS; he alsohas several groundbreaking projects related to dysarthriain neurological conditions and in individuals who havereceived face transplants.
We are also so proud to highlight that the Institute’s PhDin Rehabilitation Sciences program welcomed five of ourSLP master’s alumni into the 2019 cohort, representingalmost half of the new entering class of 11 students.
The CSD Department is also excited to offer more globalservice experiences. Several students visited ManipalUniversity in India in January along with faculty memberRachel Pittmann, and two also accompanied OT facultymember Rawan AlHeresh and CSD faculty member SueLambrecht-Smith to work in the Community RehabilitationProgram for people with disabilities in a refugee camp in
See You at the Convention
The 2019 ASHA Convention is in sunny OrlandoNovember 21-23. Please stop by our booth in theexhibit hall while you’re there, and we also invite you tocheck out the 40 presentations, posters, andseminars by faculty, students, and alumni.
Our annual alumni reception occurs on Friday,November 22, starting at 8:30 p.m., right after theawards presentations. It’s in the Hyatt Regency, PlazaBall K. We’re expecting more than 150 people to comeby, and we’ll have complimentary hors d‘oeuvres and acash bar so hope to see you there! Contact Director ofAlumni Relations Katie Mulcahy if you haven’talready RSVP’d.
Faculty to be RecognizedThree faculty will be recognized at the ASHAConvention for their exemplary contributions to speech-language pathology:
Dr. Robert Hillman, directorof the Interdisciplinary PhDProgram in RehabilitationSciences, has been namedrecipient of the 2019 AlfredK. Kawana Award forLifetime Achievement inPublications. The award isreserved for outstandingresearchers/scholars who
have a sustained history of exemplary publications inAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association(ASHA) journals.Subscribeto our email list.
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Jordan last summer. A 2019 graduate, Alyssa Saveryalso helped us develop a week-long experience in Belizelast April as part of the Inspiration Project. Check out herstory about how she and two classmates had an eye-opening experience. Across the board, students andfaculty say these experiences are life-changing.
Our Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) Program inLiteracy and Language now offers two options: a 20-creditoption with an onsite practicum and a 17-credit optionwithout a practicum. All courses are online (except thepracticum) to meet the needs of working professionals.This year Tiffany Hogan used podcasts from her child-language-expert colleagues in one of her courses in thisprogram, Leading Literacy Change, and she launched herSeeHearSpeak podcast that already has more than20,000 listens and is fast becoming the talk of theprofession.
Also, be on the lookout for invitations from us toparticipate in our ExCEL program (Excellence in ClinicalEducation Leadership), run by our Director of ClinicalEducation, Jennifer Mackey, and her associate practicumcoordinator, Lisa Moran. As part of this program, you canattend exciting CE events on campus with an option toalso participate remotely.
We are also excited to announce that we are developinga new mentorship program for students of color that willinvolve our alumni as mentors. We are grateful to our newOffice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ExecutiveDirector, Dr. Kimberly Truong, Assistant Director forMulticultural Programming and Inclusion, Dr. LeahGordon, and the new Director of Alumni Relations - ourown Katie Mulcahy! – for their assistance in this effort.
Marjorie Nicholas, PhD, CCC-SLP, FASHAProfessor and Chair
CSD Faculty Receives IHP New Investigator Award
New Investigator Award Recipient Dr. Sofia Vallila Rohter withAssociate Provost Dr. Jordan Green.
Assistant Professor Sofia Vallila Rohter received the
Dr. Tiffany Hogan, directorof the SAiL Lab and a CSDprofessor, will formally beinducted as a Fellow of theAmerican Speech-Language-HearingAssociation (ASHA).
Dr. Howard Shane, aprofessor who hasbeen affiliated with the IHPsince 1996, will receive theFrank R. Kleffner LifetimeClinical Career Award forcontributions to clinicalscience and practice over aperiod of 20 years or more.
SLP Student Receives Award
(l-r): Jocelyn Chokkattu and SHRS Dean Michael Iwama.
Jocelyn Chokkattu, a second-year SLP student, hasreceived a 2019 Scholarship of Excellence Award fromthe Association of Schools of Allied HealthProfessionals. The award recognizes outstandingstudents in the allied health professions who areachieving excellence in their academic programs andhave significant potential to assume future leadershiproles in the allied health professions.
CSD Alumni Join PhD inRehabilitation Sciences Cohort
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IHP's New Investigator Award for her efforts in usingevent-related potentials, neuroimaging, and behavioralmethods to investigate learning in people with andwithout aphasia. She received the award in Septemberat the annual Faculty Convocation. Story.
SAiL Lab Hosts Conference
(L-R) Will Baker, the Dyslexia Foundation; Nicole Landi, NERDYpresident, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories;Albert Galaburda, NERDY Co-Founder, BIDMC, Harvard Medical
School; Nadine Gaab, NERDY co-founder, Boston Children’sHospital; and Tiffany Hogan, SAiL Lab.
The Speech & Language (SAiL) Literacy Lab hosted thefourth meeting of the New England Research onDyslexia (NERDY) Conference in June. The eventbrought together an interdisciplinary community of NewEngland-based researchers, clinicians, educators, andpolicy experts to share research and discuss ways toimprove prevention, early detection, diagnosis, andintervention for developmental dyslexia and relateddisorders. Keynote speaker Dr. Albert M. Galaburda,the organization’s co-founder, a cognitive neurologist atBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Professorof Neurology at Harvard Medical School who haswritten extensively on dyslexia, received the firstNERDY Outstanding Contribution Award.
A Podcast Star is Born
Professor Tiffany Hogan, director of the SAiL Lab,recently debuted her SeeHearSpeak podcast. Herpodcast features interesting conversations withinteresting people who care about reading, language,and speech in the developing child. Story.
Five graduates who earned their Master of Science inSpeech-Language Pathology degree at the IHP joinedthis fall the largest contingent of students in the PhD inRehabilitation Sciences cohort. The alumni are (l-r) XueBao '18, Melissa Feller '04, Marc Maffei '16, AmyMaguire '12, and Carla (Tierney) Hendricks '12.
Hooding Ceremony andCommencement Awards
Alyssa Savery (center left), Professor Emerita Julie Atwood(center right), Department Chair Marjorie Nicholas (left), Dean of
SHRS Michael Iwama (right).
CSD students and faculty received several awards atCommencement 2019. View full list of awards.
Budding Researchers onCampus
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IHP Research On Display
PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences Fellow Danielle Kline discussesher research.
CSD faculty, PhD students, and post-docs showcasedtheir work for the IHP community in the Center forHealth and Rehabilitation Research. Attendees alsoenjoyed a live demonstration of motion-sensor labequipment from the Speech and Feeding DisordersLab.
New Faculty and StaffThe CSD department has added several new facultyand staff in recent months. They are:
Savetrie BachanDoctoral Research FellowCognitive Neuroscience Group
Xue BaoDoctoral Research FellowSAiL Literacy Lab
Isabel FitzpatrickResearch Study CoordinatorCognitive Neuroscience Group
Melissa Feller '04Doctoral Research FellowSAiL Literacy Lab
Zoya Surani (right), a Harvard University student, wasone of 11 undergraduate students who worked with theCognitive Neuroscience Group (CNG) again thissummer, learning how to put theory into practice.Photos.
New SLP Video Debuts
Check out the new video about the Master of Sciencein Speech-Language Pathology program. It wasproduced by Assistant Director of Digital BrandingSelena Craig, who worked with the IHP’s long-timevideo team of Andy Volk and Scott Stephenson.
Faculty NewsDr. Jordan Green, director of the Speech and FeedingDisorders Lab, has received a grant from Mass GeneralHospital: “Identifying Physiological Markers of Speechand Swallowing Impairment Across Phenotypes inIndividuals with XDP: A Longitudinal Study.” Check outthe story and video on his work with facial transplantpatients.
Dr. Joanna Christodoulou, director of the BEAM Laband an associate professor of communication sciencesand disorders, was recently interviewed for an articleon the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative website.
Faculty ScholarshipCSD faculty continue to publish and present theirscholarship. A representative sampling of their efforts isavailable on the website.
Alumni CornerA Message from the Director
Greetings! I amdelighted to knowthat this newsletterprovides you withthe “inside scoop”on the IHP CSDDepartment oftoday. YourSubscribeto our email list.
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Xinyi (Daisy) HeDoctoral FellowCognitive Neuroscience Group
Marc Maffei '16Doctoral Research FellowSpeech & Feeding Disorders Lab
Kristen Nunn Doctoral Research FellowCognitive Neuroscience Group
Mary Rasner Lab CoordinatorSAiL Lab
Giselle SabidoProgram CoordinatorCommunication Sciences &Disorders
Hayden VentrescaResearch AssistantSpeech & Feeding Disorders Lab
connecting back tothe IHP is ofutmost importanceto us. We areworking hard tobring programsand services to thealumni communitythat will be of mostinterest to you. Toaccomplish thisgoal, we need your
input! Please feel free to email me with any thoughts orsuggestions you might have.
Katie MulcahyDirector of Alumni Relations
Tell Us About Your Life!We invite you to submit a class note to share with yourfellow alumni what is happening in your world. Thisincludes such things as new jobs and promotions,professional presentations given, and awards, alongwith marriage photos, and photos of you with your newbaby. We’ll include them in an upcoming issue of theMGH Institute magazine.
Join The IHP's Online Community
We invite you to become part of our expanding onlinealumni community by joining IHP's LinkedIn,Facebook, and other social media to keep up with theIHP and your fellow graduates.
Library ResourcesMGH Institute alumni have access to journals,databases, and other research resources at theInstitute’s Alumni Library Resources section. Thisrobust section is sure to meet many of your researchneeds. Contact Director of Library and InstructionalDesign Jessica Bell with questions or for assistance.
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