Teaching

Graduate Course Facilitator | C690: Aphasia | Speech@Emerson at Emerson College (Fall 2022 - onwards)

Course Description: This course is designed to teach students about aphasia. This course presents information about pathophysiology, epidemiology, and prevention of aphasia; its nature, assessment, and diagnostic procedures; and approaches to aphasia intervention. Issues surrounding recovery, prognosis, and treatment efficacy are also included. Information is presented with reference to the current literature in the field and to its clinical application.

Teaching Fellow | SHBT 200: Introduction to Sound, Speech, & Hearing | Harvard University (Fall 2020)

Course Description: Speech and hearing are fundamental to our ability to communicate, yet in the US alone millions of people suffer from some form of speech or hearing impairment. The goals of this course are to introduce students to the acoustics, anatomy, physiology, and mechanics related to speech and hearing and to build a foundational understanding of one of the most complex, interdisciplinary, and fascinating areas of bioengineering. Topics include acoustic theory of speech production, basic digital speech processing, control mechanisms of speech production and basic elements of speech and voice perception. These fundamental topics will be explored through applications and challenges involving acoustics, speech recognition, and speech disorders, which are especially relevant given the ubiquity of recording and playback devices such as smartphones and home assistants. On the hearing side, topics include acoustics and mechanics of the outer ear, middle ear, and cochlea, how pathologies affect their function, and methods for clinical diagnosis. Surgical treatments and medical devices such as hearing aids, bone conduction devices, and implants will also be covered

Term Lecturer | CD724: Research Design and Statistics for Communication Sciences and Disorders | MGH-IHP (Spring 2020)

Course Description: This course is designed to integrate evidenced-°©‐based methods into professional applications. The course focuses on types of research, research designs, research methods, evidence‐based practice, and statistics that are commonly used to investigate normal and disordered human communication. The course objectives are developed to meet the knowledge and skill acquisition requirements determined by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA). Nine main knowledge areas (i.e., articulation, fluency, voice and resonance, receptive/expressive language, hearing, swallowing, cognitive aspects, social aspects, communication modalities) across five clinical parameters (etiology, characteristics, prevention, assessment, intervention) are required.

Guest Lecturer | SH524: Normal Language Acquisition, Boston University (04/16/2020)

Lecture Title: "Developmental and Acquired Language Disorders: From Theory to Treatment".