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Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah

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

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

Director, Aphasia Research Center

Email:    yshah@hesp.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 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

Most recent research has focused on production of verb inflections in individuals with agrammatic aphasia. Current research projects include:
  • treatment efficacy studies for aphasia
  • psycholinguisitc and neuroimaging investigations of verb and morphosyntactic processing in apahsic and impaired individuals

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