Dr. Alison Eisel Hendricks, director of the University at Buffalo Language Learning Lab has received a 3-year Early Career Award grant from the National Institutes of Health- National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIH/NIDCD) to identify differences in the use of non-mainstream dialect features among school-age children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD).
Dr. Kris Tjaden, director of the University at Buffalo (UB) Motor Speech Disorders Lab is part of a research team that has received a 5-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate speech outcomes following deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) for individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD).
This fall semester 2020, the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences has added new academic faculty members, Drs. Sheppard, Castro, and Heffner. Below is a brief introduction of each.