Many lab members attended the recent 2023 ASHA Convention to celebrate recent honors and present ongoing research.
The ASHA Convention offers an annual opportunity for researchers, educators, students, and clinicians to come together to share research, learn new methods and technologies for clinical care, and foster educational and professional connections.
Lab members pictured from left to right: Hannah Stetson, Talia Liu, Kelsey Davison, Jennifer Zuk, Laura Doherty, Juliana Ronderos, Helen Gray-Bauer, Antonia Nikolaidou.
Research assistant, Laura Doherty, and post-doctoral fellow, Juliana Ronderos, both received honors during the convention.
Laura was honored as one of the convention’s Meritorious Poster Recipients, a special designation for those that present “exceptional and innovative work on topics across the sciences from teams around the world”.
Juliana, recent awardee of the ASHFoundation’s New Investigator Award, was celebrated as well.
Congratulations to our lab members who presented their work!
Doctoral student, Talia Liu, presented ongoing research entitled “Speech rate in relation to language difficult in autistic and non-autistic children”.
Doctoral student, Kelsey Davison, and research assistant, Mercy Valladares, presented their research, “Parents’ oral reading expressiveness in shared reading”. Pictured with Boston University Clinical Professor and co-author, Alyssa Boucher. This presentation included work completed by Mercy as an MS-SLP thesis at Boston University.
Research assistant, Hannah Stetson, presented her work titled, “Parent-child conversational interactions during shared book reading in toddlerhood in relation to child language status”. This work was completed as part of Hannah’s MS-SLP thesis at Boston University.
Research assistant, Laura Doherty, presented her project, “The expressiveness of parents’ storybook reading in relation to children’s emerging language abilities in toddlerhood”. This work was completed as part of Laura’s MS-SLP thesis at Boston University.
Post-doctoral fellow, Juliana Ronderos presented two seminars, “Contribution of Cognitive Processing Abilities to Performance on Verbal Repetition Assessments in Spanish-English Bilingual Children” and “Language Maintenance in Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder”. This work was completed during Juliana’s doctoral work at the University of Houston.
Research coordinator, Helen Gray-Bauer, presented work looking at the “Associations between home literacy environment, home musical environment, and parental self-efficacy in families of preschoolers”.
Boston University Clinical Professor and lab collaborator, Alyssa Boucher, and graduate research assistant and MS-SLP thesis student, Natalie Tewksbary, presented a seminar about “Fostering Clinical Judgment: Supervisor and Student Clinician Perspectives on Implementing Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders”.
