Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab

Dedicated to developing, understanding, and improving speech, feeding, and neurologic impairments that affect communication and swallowing.

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

@vtbolowsky Congratulations, Dr. Gallee!

[MGH IHP Research @IHPResearch]

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
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[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

Hayden, our research assistant, will be presenting a poster with our neuropsychologist @AnaZaninotto at #CNS2020 this March!

[Hayden Ventresca @hmventresca]

My poster, 'Speech pause behavior in traumatic brain injury is driven by comorbid cognitive impairment and task demand,' was recently accepted to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference in March! #CNS2020 @CNSmtg

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

Marziye Eshghi, @KateConnaghan, Sarah Gutz, @YunusovaLab and @jgreen4 have recently published a paper in @ASA_JASA investigating which acoustic features correlate with perceptual judgement of voice and resonance quality in patients with #ALS. https://t.co/ovLqhzyBqC

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

Our postdoc Marziye, @jgreen4, & @kailastipancic just published a paper in @FrontNeurol comparing a novel, fixed alternating motion rate (AMR) task with standard AMR paradigms. The novel task requires greater oromotor performance & limits task adaptation. https://t.co/5Jvuge7MPV

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

Our collaborator Dr. Bohdan Pomahac and the @BrighamWomens #facetransplant team have just hit another milestone: the first African-American face transplant patient, Robert Chelsea. @BrighamResearch
@TIME https://t.co/2jjDrMWN5k

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

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. https://t.co/SBD2fYwjzZ

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

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! @NEALSConsortium

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

[MGH IHP Research @IHPResearch]

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. https://t.co/1kWhUvOiGf

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

Lab Director @jgreen4 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.

[Brian Wallach @bsw5020]

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.

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

New paper published by our postdoc, Marziye!

[MGH IHP Research @IHPResearch]

Research Associate Dr. Marziye Eshghi has just published a paper in @ASHAJournals indicating slower expressive vocabulary growth in children with cleft palate relative to typically developing peers. #CP #clefpalate #postdoc #asha https://t.co/4LWm1YBrw5

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

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

[MGH Institute @MGHInstitute]

Dr. Jordan Green is collaborating w/ world-renowned @BrighamWomens plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac to discover better ways for patients to recover from face transplant surgery. “It is like using barbells or calisthenics for the face,” Green says. https://t.co/U1Z36n8tSK

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

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

[ASHA Journals @ASHAJournals]

(4 of 6) 2019 Editor’s Award for #JSLHR Speech (Editor-in-Chief: Bharath Chandrasekaran) goes to Kristen M. Allison & Katherine C. Hustad for "Acoustic Predictors of #Pediatric #Dysarthria in Cerebral Palsy"! https://t.co/Lcq3Cf5Bg1 @WaismanCenter #audpeeps #slpeeps #acoustic

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

@JohnShaw59 @interspeech2019 Thank you John!!

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

Great news this morning - ALL FIVE of the SFD Team's @interspeech2019 submissions have been accepted! We will be presenting four posters and giving one oral presentation in Graz, Austria, in September! #slp #motorspeech #speechresearch

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

The paper, "Instrumental Evaluation of Velopharyngeal Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis," will be presented TONIGHT at the 2019 meeting of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences @ICPhS2019. Good luck Marziye!

[Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab @SFDLab]

In our most recent study, postdoc Marziye Eshghi, lab manager Brian Richburg, and @UofT collaborator Yana Yunusova establish that an aerodynamic technique for assessing velopharyngeal dysfunction in ALS is more valid and sensitive than subjective clinical evals & nasometry.

[MGH IHP Research @IHPResearch]

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.

[MGH IHP Research @IHPResearch]

Congratulations to Dr. @tiffanyphogan 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 @ASHAWeb