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Lab Director: Dr. Jayanthi Sasisekaran, Ph.D.
Employment: Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Education:
M.Sc. in Speech and Hearing All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore, IndiaPh.D. in Speech Language Pathology University of Toronto, Canada
Post-doctoratePurdue University, USA
Professional activities: Editor, Special Issue, Brain Sciences (2023) - Submit to the special issue HERE.Associated Editor, Journal of Fluency Disorders (2018-2023)Associate Editor, Journal of Communication Disorders (2015-2018)Ad-hoc Reviewer, NIH Study Group (2019,2020-22)
Membership: American Speech, Language, Hearing Association
Certification: Equity and Diversity Certificate, University of Minnesota, Fall 2020
NCBI Research Profile: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1jse5n8UcSAAd/bibliography/public/
Xiaofan Lei
Xiaofan is a doctoral student in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. She received her B.A. in English literature from Mississippi College and her M.A. in Applied English Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Xiaofan’s current research interests center around the effects of stuttering severity variation on emotions, avoidance behaviors, and social anxiety.
Xiaofan is a doctoral student in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. She received her B.A. in English literature from Mississippi College and her M.A. in Applied English Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Xiaofan’s current research interests center around the effects of stuttering severity variation on emotions, avoidance behaviors, and social anxiety.
Shriya Basu
Shriya is a lab alumni and is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach. Shriya's doctoral dissertation is on the effects of dual tasking on speech fluency and language planning in school-age children and adults who stutter.
Shriya is a lab alumni and is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach. Shriya's doctoral dissertation is on the effects of dual tasking on speech fluency and language planning in school-age children and adults who stutter.
Graduate Research Assistants
Cara DonohueKristie GonzalezKatie LauritzenSamantha WeaverMichael PetersonBrittany GravesUndergraduate Research AssistantsKallie NeilsenCarly MaddenMeredith HoganSiri OlsenMalia WagnerSydney ForsGraduate Research Assistants
Undergraduate Research Volunteers
Undergraduate Research Volunteers
Dayeong Yang (Research volunteer)
Dayeong Yang (Research volunteer)
Tait Anderson (Research volunteer)
Tait Anderson (Research volunteer)
Carol June Leonard (Research volunteer)
Carol June Leonard (Research volunteer)
CLA Freshman research grant recipients:
CLA Freshman research grant recipients:
Ariel Flynn
Ariel Flynn
Luke Lambert
Luke Lambert
Samantha Sawyer
Samantha Sawyer
Samantha Weaver
Samantha Weaver
Erin Weathers (co-author; publication)
Erin Weathers (co-author; publication)
Monica Delgado (co-author; ASHA poster)
Monica Delgado (co-author; ASHA poster)
Alyssa Sapanov (co-author; ASHA poster)
Alyssa Sapanov (co-author; ASHA poster)
Kaitlyn Trefethen (co-author; ASHA poster)
Kaitlyn Trefethen (co-author; ASHA poster)
Vicky Lee
Vicky Lee
Jenna Swaney
Jenna Swaney
Michael Kamano
Michael Kamano
Lauren Stillson
Marta Bacon (MnDRIVE scholarship)
Select Posters (CLA Freshman award recipients & undergraduate Freshmen research awardees are highlighted:
Sasisekaran, J. (2024). The use of narratives to evaluate lived experiences in men and women who stutter. Poster presented at the American Speech, Language, Hearing Convention, Seattle.
Sasisekaran, J., Madden, C., & Hogan, M. (December, 2024). The association between attentional effort and verbal working memory in neurotypical adults. Poster presented at the American Speech, Language, Hearing Convention, Seattle.
Lei, X.* & Sasisekaran, J. (January, 2020). Verbal Recall and Sympathetic Nervous System Response in Adults Who Stutter. Poster presented at the (online) Oxford Disfluency Conference.
Sasisekaran, J., Basu, S., & Lei, X., Swany, J.*, & Kamano, M.* (2020). The Effects of Task Variations on Sample length, Language Complexity, and Stuttering Disfluencies. Poster accepted for presentation at the ASHA Convention, San Diego. Conference cancelled.
Sasisekaran, J., Basu, S., & Xiaofan, L. (2019) Effects of Syntactic Complexity of Utterances on Disfluent Speech in Children. Poster presentation at the
ASHA Convention, Orlando, FL.
Munson, B., Anderson, T., & Sasisekaran, J. (2017). Phonological neighborhood density and intra-speaker variation in vowel production. Poster presented at the Acoustic Society of America convention.
Sasisekaran, J., Weathers, E., Delgado, M.*, Trefethen, K.* (2016). Disfluencies & Self-Corrections in a Nonword Repetition Task in Children Who Stutter. Poster presented at the ASHA convention, Philadelphia.
Weathers, E.,* Spanovick, A.*, Basu, S., & Sasisekaran, J. (2016). Errors & Movement Variability With Nonword Repetition in Children Who Stutter. Poster presented at the ASHA convention, Philadelphia.
Basu, S., Schlauch, B., Sasisekaran, J. (2016). Backward masking of speech and tones in persons who stutter. Poster presented at the ASHA convention, Philadelphia.
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