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Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah

Ph.D. (2004, Northwestern University, Communication Sciences & Disorders)
, CCC-SLP

Associate Professor, Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences
Faculty Member, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS)

Director, Aphasia Research Center

Email:    yfshah@umd.edu
Phone:  
301-405-4229
Room:    0141F, LeFrak Hall
 

Courses Taught         Research/Clinical Activities       

Research/Clinical Interests

Aphasia Research Center

  • Aphasia
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Neuroimaging
  • Bi/Multilingualism

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Courses Taught in the Past Five Years

HESP 808: Seminar in Contemporary Research in Communication sciences & Disorders

HESP 888: Seminar in Neurological Bases of Language

HESP 610: Aphasia- Language problems of adults associated with brain injury.

HESP 602/422/NACS 728K: Neurological Bases of Human Communication- Basic neurology as it pertains to anatomical and physiological substrates of speech and language.

HESP 406: Acquired Disorders in Adults - Survey of the dysarthrias and aphasias in adults from an interdisciplinary point of view.

HONR 279M: How does the brain speak? Insights from neuroimaging and brain damage

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Research/Clinical Activities

The overarching focus of research is on language impairments in post-stroke aphasia. Most recent research has focused on morphosyntactic aspects of aphasia. Research projects include:

  • Production and comprehension of verb morphology in aphasia
  • Verb retrieval in aphasia, with an emphasis on Embodied Cognition and Cross-linguistic priming
  • Treatment efficacy studies for aphasia, with a focus on treatment approaches for verb morphology, verb retrieval, and using constraint-induced therapy
  • Neuroimaging (magnetoencephalography) investigations of verb and morphosyntactic processing in unimpaired and aphasic individuals, with a specific emphasis on neural plasticity following aphasia treatment
  • Lesion-symptom mapping of aphasia (structural MRI scans) with collaborator Dr. Allen Braun (NIDCD)

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