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- Chair and Professor
Respected researcher, author, lecturer and teacher, Daniel Kempler is a specialist in acquired neurologically based communicative disorders in adults. He is the author or co-author of well over 100 scholarly articles, abstracts, chapters, books, and reviews, including presentations of his research at dozens of conferences nationally and internationally in the areas of aphasia, dementia, Parkinson's disease, aging, and culturally non-biased assessments. His research has appeared in journals such as Brain and Language, Aphasiology, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, and Behavioral Neurology, Archives of Neurology, and Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. In addition to research articles, Kempler is the author of the book Neurocognitive Disorders in Aging (Sage Publications, 2005).
Read More - Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Health Communication Program
Timothy Edgar's professional career has been devoted to conducting quantitative and qualitative health communication research on topics as diverse as HIV/AIDS, physical activity for adolescents, childhood and adult immunization, diabetes, epilepsy, peptic ulcers, and antibiotic resistance. Before joining the Emerson faculty, Edgar was a senior study director with Westat, a social science research firm in Rockville, Maryland, where he directed dozens of health communication evaluation studies for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read More - Associate Professor
Teacher, researcher, and clinician, Dr. Bajaj's areas of expertise are fluency disorders and speech science. His research interests include examining the psycholinguistic bases of stuttering, stuttering identification, and applications of qualitative methodologies in stuttering research.Read More
Elaine Geller
Visiting Professor- Assistant Professor
Dr. Grossman's research is focused on various aspects of face-to-face communication in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). She is specifically interested in how children with ASD integrate and produce verbal and nonverbal information, such as facial expressions and prosody. Dr. Grossman's work has been published in several refereed journals, including Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Journal of Nonverbal Behavior; and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. She was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to conduct motion-capture analyses of facial expression production in adolescents with ASD.
Read More - Scientist-in-Residence
Dr. Honea is an ecologist interested in the response of communities, populations, and individual species to environmental change. He has taught courses on the ecology and management of forests and aquatic ecosystems as well as on general ecology and environmental and sustainability sciences.
Read More - Associate Professor
Dr. Jagaroo is a cognitive neuroscientist with research interests in the areas of visuospatial function and spatial cognition – how the brain is involved in the processing and perception of space and higher order vision.
Read More - Scholar-In-Residence
Eileen McBride is a clinical psychologist and teacher. She began her career as a therapist working in the Northern Ireland Health Service. Since then she has managed adult psychiatry services in both in-patient and community settings and developed a private practice in London's financial district, specializing in stress and anxiety management.
Read More - Assistant Professor
Dr. McLaughlin-Volpe is a social psychologist with research interests in the areas of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. She teaches courses in social psychology, the psychology of prejudice, and statistics.
Read More - Assistant Professor
Wyatt Oswald is an ecologist with teaching and research interests spanning the earth and environmental sciences.
Read More - Faculty-In-Residence
Dr. Morgan studies neurological processes as they relate to communication. Her post-doctoral fellowship in acquired neurogenic speech and language disorders was divided between clinical and research responsibilities.
Read More - Associate Professor
Eiki Satake is a teacher and researcher in the areas of mathematics and applied statistics. He is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Research and Statistical Methods in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CengageDelmar Learning), Handbook of Statistical Methods: Single Subject Designs (Plural Publishing), Introductory Statistics: A First Course (Kendall-Hunt Publishing). One of Satake's books, entitled Actuarial Mathematics of Finance, was selected for the Basic Library List of The Mathematical Association of America.
Read More - Assistant Professor
Dr. Vashlishan is a molecular biologist with research and teaching interests at the intersection of genetics, neurobiology, and public understanding of science. Her current laboratory work utilizes genetic approaches to explore how neurons can adjust their activity in response to changes in the environment, leading to alterations in behavior.
Read More Toni Walters
Scholar-in-Residence
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Grossman studies facial expression to aid people with autism
In her research, Communication Sciences and Disorders Assistant Professor Ruth Grossman wants to address some of the communication problems that children with autism face as they interact with others at home and school.
