News and Events
October 4th, 2024
Dr. Ashaie is ALSO excited to announce he has received funding from the NIDCD for an R21 grant titled -
“From Impairment to Participation: A Systems Approach to Understanding the Complexity of Aphasia”
Our lab is excited to get to work on these new projects!!
August 8th, 2024
Our lab is excited to announce that Dr. Ashaie will receive funding from the NICHD for a new R03 grant - Nonlinguistic laboratory biomarkers of depression.
Congratulations to Dr. Ashaie!
July 24th, 2024
Rachel presented her work from the lab this summer at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab poster session.
She shared her work on: Perspectives on mental health changes from people with aphasia and care partners - a reflexive thematic analysis
Congrats, Rachel, we are proud of your work in the lab!
June 10th, 2024
Congratulations to Rachel Kwon, one of our undergraduate research assistants, who was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG) from Northwestern University!
Rachel will be working on a project titled “Perspectives on Mental Health Changes from People with Aphasia and Care Partners - a Reflexive Thematic Analysis” this summer.
Rachel was also named a finalist for the Fletcher Prize for Rising Undergraduate Research Star.
Well done, Rachel!
March 14th, 2024
Congratulations to our stellar lab manager, Eleanor Siegle, whose very first submission was accepted as part of the inaugural Audrey Holland Platform presentation at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, 2024. Congratulations to the other co-authors on the submission as well: Stewart Shankman, Madhu Reddy, Jamie Griffith, & Sameer Ashaie.
The submission is titled:
‘“I wanna just not go, because maybe I’m sad”- Views on depression from the perspectives of persons with aphasia, their care partners, and speech-language pathologists’
Eleanor will go to present at the conference, located this year in Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii.
July 28th, 2023
Our intern, Andrew, recently presented his findings on Naturalistic Eye Tracking in Right Hemisphere stroke patients at the SRA Lab poster session.
Andrew discussed the feasibility of naturalistic eye tracking for preliminary detection of unilateral spatial neglect.
We are proud of his work in the lab!