Rehabilitation research for acquired neurogenic communication disorders such as aphasia and development of language outcome measures in monolingual and Spanish/English bilingual speakers; basic research evaluating cognitive and linguistic processing in older adults and in persons with aphasia; evaluation of assessment and treatment delivered via teletherapy; and computer use in persons with aphasia.
Speech treatment for intelligibility in children with dysarthria due to cerebral palsy; characteristics and treatment of dysarthria due to cerebral palsy and Parkinson Disease across languages; cross-language and second-language speech perception and learning; accent and intelligibility in speech-language pathology.
Cultural and environmental influences on children’s language and literacy development with an emphasis on bilingual children; development of valid and reliable assessments of bilingual children’s language development; development and testing of home- and classroom-based interventions to promote children’s school readiness.
Improving health outcomes and quality of life associated with disorders of airway protection (specifically cough and swallowing dysfunction), particularly in neurodegenerative disease; basic science research goals focus on developing a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying airway protection and its disorders; clinical research goals are the development of novel and robust evaluation and treatment techniques for dystussia, dysphagia, and adult disorders of motor speech production.