Early career researchers in FTD

This page aims at featuring our early careers researchers. Please feel free to browse through their pages. They all answered several questions regarding their career path and interests.

Stephanie Grasso, PhD, CCC-SLP

Position: Assistant Professor

University of Texas at Austin

Bilingualism, multilingualism, speech-language intervention, cognitive reserve

📧 [email protected]

https://slhs.utexas.edu/research/multilingual-aphasia-and-dementia-research-lab/about-lab


What is your area of research as it relates to FTD?

The Multilingual Aphasia and Dementia Research Lab (MADRlab) is housed in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. Research in the lab focuses on developing treatment approaches for bilingual adults with aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders. In addition, we are interested in better characterizing the manifestation of aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders in individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Research in the lab also addresses bilingualism as a contributor to cognitive and neural reserve and utilizes neuroimaging to investigate variability in treatment responsiveness. 


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