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By Dave DeFusco
Last year, Marsha Pinto, a speech pathologist and graduate of the M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology, received a referral for a 7-year-old student with selective mutism, an anxiety disorder that inhibits him from speaking in certain social situations. Not only would he not speak, he wouldn’t venture inside the classroom, instead lingering […]
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By Dave DeFusco
For years, Henry Hecker was a supervisor at Your Choice at Home, a Brooklyn-based home health care agency, and a physical therapist with his own practice in Washington Heights. Beloved in the community, he offered his services pro bono, sometimes buying food and presents for his patients and their children and grandchildren […]
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By Dave DeFusco
Anne, a 50-something churchgoer, lost her speech after a stroke. She had trouble coming up with the right words and stringing them into sentences—a condition called aphasia—until Dani Weingarten, a graduate of the Katz School’s M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP), took on her case.
Anne was a client at New York […]
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Katz School faculty are advancing scholarly knowledge and transforming lives by taking an interdisciplinary approach to research and education, fostering the creativity, collaborative thinking and builder mindset required to take on today’s toughest problems. The following list of recent faculty research and activities exemplifies the Katz School’s determination to make the world smarter, safer and […]
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By David DeFusco
For Julia Agosto, a speech-language pathologist and Katz School clinical assistant professor, life on the front lines of COVID-19 has been an unrelenting series of challenges that have tested the limits of her strength, patience and resilience.
The stress of being thrust into a chaotic and sometimes maddening environment can be all […]
Continue Reading →The Katz School’s M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology recently teamed up with Hong Kong Polytechnic University to explore how both schools can improve patient care with the use of technology.
In a Zoom course with faculty, students and clinicians, Dr. Marissa Barrera, director of the M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology, demonstrated how to implement biofeedback, such as […]
Continue Reading →Dr. Elisabeth Mlawski, a clinical assistant professor in the Katz School’s Speech-Language Pathology program whose focus is on pediatric language development, has been appointed to a cross-cultural collaboration that will introduce Chiang Mai University to the fundamentals of speech-language pathology.
“Dr. Mlawski’s appointment to this collaborative research group is not only a validation of her […]
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A research analysis by a recent a graduate of the Speech-Language Pathology program concluded that the recovery pattern of expressive and receptive language skills for bilingual speakers can vary after a traumatic brain injury.
“Recovery can occur in different ways depending on the site of the lesion, the severity of the impact, the age of […]
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For her many years of work dedicated to people with Multiple Sclerosis, Dr. Marissa Barrera, director of the Katz School’s Speech-Language Pathology program, has received the Health Care Professional Champion Award from the National MS Society.
“It’s been everything,” said Dr. Barrera of her focus on helping people with Multiple Sclerosis and their loved ones. […]
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May Mahmoud is in her last semester of the Katz School’s Speech-Language Pathology program. Originally from Alexandria, Egypt, she currently lives in Brooklyn. May is bilingual in Arabic and English, and holds an undergraduate degree in speech-language pathology from Brooklyn College. Helena Goodman, a marketing manager at Yeshiva University, recently spoke with May about her […]
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