Congrats to our doctoral student Hannah Rowe for winning a Poster Award for "Speech Motor Impairment Profiling Based on Acoustic Features" at the 2019 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium! #2019BSMCS #speechimpairment #slp #motorspeech

Congrats to master's student Noor Zaghlula for successfully defending her impressive thesis, "Intermuscular Coherence in a Rapid Syllable Repetition Task as a Marker of Disease Progression in Individuals with ALS." We look forward to seeing what you'll do next!

Congratulations to Dr. Tiffany Hogan for being elected a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)! Fellowship is awarded based on an individual's accomplishments and is a public declaration of outstanding professional achievements. #fasha ASHA

Congratulations to Dr. Teresa Kimberley for being awarded the MGH SPARC Award to Catalyze Brain Research! The goal of her submitted proposal is to formalize the MGH Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery-IHP partnership, promoting transdisciplinary neurorecovery research.

Congrats to SFD alum @kristen_allison on receiving the 2019 #ASHA Journal award! We are so proud of you!

We just added another transplant patient to this study, too! Such a fascinating and novel population.

When this tweet happened, I wasn’t sure whether to dance or cry. One of the people I most admire had just tweeted about me, but it laid bare that I have ALS and am dying. I chose to dance. And have been dancing ever since. Join me. Follow this journey. Help make our cure real.

New paper published by our postdoc, Marziye!

Lab Director Jordan Green has just been awarded a new grant from Massachusetts General Hospital. Project title: Identifying physiological markers of speech and swallowing impairment across phenotypes in individuals with XDP: a longitudinal study.

Professor Jordan Green and colleague Panying Rong (U of Kansas) just published a study of facial motion capture data of individuals with #ALS. The conclusion? Tongue-jaw coupling may be the "critical physiological factor" in loss of speech-motor control. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

We love research! Our lab manager Megan spent the morning with Kaila L. Stipancic, a PhD student at #MGHIHP who is using TMS to learn more about how speech and chewing affect the brain

So happy our collaborator @YunusovaLab could stop by our poster at the Northeast ALS Consortium (NEALS)! Pictured is Harli Weber, our collaborator at #MGH and author on the poster, presenting our work on using a smartphone app to track speech decline in #ALS! NEALS Consortium

Our postdoc Marziye Eshighi has just authored a paper on vocabulary growth in children with repaired cleft palate. Children with CP showed slower expressive vocabulary growth relative to their age-matched TD peers. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

Our collaborator Dr. Bohdan Pomahac and the Brigham and Women's Hospital #facetransplant team have just hit another milestone: the first African-American face transplant patient, Robert Chelsea. Brigham and Women’s Research TIME time.com/5709294/first-…

Our postdoc Marziye, Jordan Green, & Kaila L. Stipancic just published a paper in Frontiers - Neurology comparing a novel, fixed alternating motion rate (AMR) task with standard AMR paradigms. The novel task requires greater oromotor performance & limits task adaptation. bit.ly/2XMFCG2

Jordan Green, Marziye Eshghi & Hannah Rowe of the Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab published a study that provided preliminary validation of the clinical value of movement jitter during oral DDK in patient stratification and bulbar disease prognosis. #ALS ow.ly/X4uX50xsP72

Marziye Eshghi, Kate Connaghan, Sarah Gutz, @YunusovaLab and Jordan Green have recently published a paper in JASA investigating which acoustic features correlate with perceptual judgement of voice and resonance quality in patients with #ALS. asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.112…

Hayden, our research assistant, will be presenting a poster with our neuropsychologist Ana Luiza Zaninotto at #CNS2020 this March!