Adam Jacks

Speech-language pathologist, researcher, aphasiologist

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

@JamieReilly_cog guilty as charged

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

First conference since February 2020. Looking forward to present our new word complexity webapp this afternoon! #motorspeech2022 @UNC_AHS https://t.co/UloARW26dY https://t.co/OTdtnARqBN

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

@CHTDirector @UNC_AHS @chtransit @CarrboroTownGov @chapelhillgov @UNC @MoveUNC @ncpublictransit @APTA_info @WCHLChapelboro @chapelhillmag @NewsofOrange I love our students 😀 thanks @chtransit for all you do!

[Department of Health Sciences @UNC_HealthSci]

The @NIH has awarded #uncshs professors Katarina Haley and Adam Jacks a $3 million R01 research project grant to study speech production following a stroke: https://t.co/TOrxl6RFrv

[ajay sharma @coachsharma]

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
-Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

RIP Bill Withers

[The Tylt @TheTylt]

Today we lost one of the best! Bill Withers just passed away at age 81. He was an extraordinary talent, with a soulful voice like no other.

Ain't no sunshine today. Rest In Power, King! 💔

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

#motorspeech2020 attendees excited about putting ppl with #apraxiaofspeech in the driver's seat with #ActionSC Therapy @katarinahaley @ktcslp @UNC_AHS

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

so excited to share our new work- rep word prodxn is INCONSISTENT in ppl w #aphasia and (esp) in #apraxiaofspeech #motorspeech2020 @katarinahaley @ktcslp @jdrichslp_nm @tyson_harmon @turkeltp https://t.co/alBHGa9Yss

[Thea Knowles @theaknowles]

Jacks: Does masking reduce dysfluency in AOS? Sometimes. Not a clear predictive relationship from lesion to responder status in people with AOS following masking, but most responders showed similar profiles re: spared superior temp & inf parietal #motorspeech2020

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

@sqcai just gave a great talk on #ProjectEuphonia at #motorspeech2020. Need more PALS to share their voices to improve the tech. @TeamDreaFdn

[Natalie Morales @nmoralestv]

This morning on @todayshow how google’s #projecteuphonia in partnership with @alstdi is trying to change life for those with speech impairments from diseases like #als & meet the amazing @TeamDreaFdn who is doing… https://t.co/KUdP96mqOZ

[Thea Knowles @theaknowles]

Hlavnicka: "Dysarthria Analyzer" serves as a means of automating extraction/modelling of acoustic features from dysarthric speech samples to facilitate SLPs' incorporation of acoustics into their clinical assessment. #motorspeech2020

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

Shri Narayanan giving a great keynote address-check out the dynamics of beatboxing https://t.co/ouwXPAY3rk @USC_SAIL #motorspeech2020

[Late Night with Seth Meyers @LateNightSeth]

Hey! Mike Pompeo! Why were you such a jerk to NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly?! https://t.co/YPNVbfTjzT

[Mary Louise Kelly @NPRKelly]

Journalists don’t sit down with senior officials to score political points. We do it in the service of asking tough questions, on behalf of our fellow citizens. And then sharing the answers—or lack thereof—with the world.

My take for @NYT: https://t.co/1L4zFtQKI0

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly says the following happened after the interview in which she asked some tough questions to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

[Mary Louise Kelly @NPRKelly]

Here is our full interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It's worth a listen. https://t.co/3BQh3Q7lWV

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

@JamesHartLaw Go stros!

[Adam Jacks @adamjacks]

@SublimeWithRome Amy Powell is a superfan! you should definitely give her backstage passes :)

[Amy Powell @AmyPowe78474342]

Cant wait to see @SublimeWithRome on 7/21 in Cary, NC!! Please make it the best concert of my life! #$1000lawnseat, probably should not have purchased tickets after a few glasses of wine!

[Human Rights Campaign Rapid Response @HRC]

"I want to be brave enough to change my first No. 1 song into how I would sing it today, and yet maintain the full integrity of the song."

We're kicking off #PrideMonth with @TyHerndoncom's new recording of "What Mattered Most." 🎶🏳️‍🌈 https://t.co/2Oea6UbKUv