In This Issue...

1. President's Message
2. ANCDS New Member Spotlight: Bridget Xia
3. ANCDS Committee Spotlight: Elizabeth Madden
4. Volunteer Spotlight: Kim Eichhorn 
5. Membership Survey Results
6. Board Certified Member Request
7. Board Certification Mentoring
8. ASHA Announcements
9. Aphasia Resources
10. Upcoming Conferences
11. Member Accomplishments

ANCDS Board/Officers 

Heather Clark, Ph.D., BC-ANCDS
President

Melissa Duff, Ph.D.
President-Elect

Lauren Bislick, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, CBIS
Secretary

Neila Donovan, Ph.D., CCC‐SLP
Treasurer

Lynn Maher, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Immediate Past President  

Jamila Minga, Ph.D.
Executive Board Member

Ana Rivera Rodriguez, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Executive Board Member

Victoria Scharp, Ph.D.
Executive Board Member

Ramani Voleti, M.S., CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS
Executive Board Member

Mary H. Purdy, Ph.D., BC-ANCDS
ANCDS Archivist 

Diana Petroi-Block, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS
Chair, Board of Clinical Certification

Janet Patterson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Chair, Board of Residency Education

Sheryle Hazard, CAE
Executive Director

ANCDS Board Certification

Why become Board Certified?

- Recognizes your advanced clinical knowledge and skills

- Enhances your confidence in your clinical knowledge and skills

- Enhances consumer and referral source confidence in the care you can provide

- Encourages professional growth through the continuing education required for the maintenance of board certification

- Provides a respected credential to support professional advancement

Click here to learn more about the application and certification process.

On-Demand CE Offerings (Expiring 12/31/24)

2023 Annual Scientific Meeting Lecture Recordings

REDI Self-Study Course

ANCDS members have access to view past webinar recordings (no longer available for ASHA CEU credits) at your convenience.

ANCDS Podcast

Ep. 22: A Conversation with Therese O'Neil-Pirozzi and McKay Sohlberg of the ANCDS TBI Writing Group

New Right Hemisphere Resources

New resources related to apragmatism have been added to the RightHemisphere.org website, including a video presentation by the International Right Hemisphere Collaborative introducing pragmatism.

ANCDS Merch

Show your ANCDS pride at your office, home, and everywhere you go with new ANCDS logo items!  From coffee mugs to t-shirts, ANCDS merch makes for great gifts for colleagues, employees, friends, family, and yourself!

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Welcome New Members!

Full Members 

Javad Anjum
Catherine Castillo, M.A., CCC-SLP, CBIS
Rebecca Hunting Pompon, Ph.D.
Jaclynne Hurst, M.S., CCC-SLP
Olga Johnson, SLP
Tyler Roman, M.A., CCC-SLP
Taryn Townsend, M.S., CCC-SLP, CBIS
Leslie Vnenchak, M.A., CCC-SLP
Bridget Xia

Clinical Fellow and Student Members

Taylor Bender
Kathleen Bradbury
Erin Carpenter, M.S.
Lillian Dennison
Adele Derendinger
Loubna El Ouardi
Jennifer Evans
Isabelle Hooker
Courtney Jewell
Sophia Kekes-Szabo
Ayelet Kershenbaum, M.S., CCC-SLP
Emily Levy
Emily Lewis
Devin Lukachik
Ryan McCurdy, M.A., CCC-SLP
Mackenzie Shelley
Marissa Tafuri
Christy Thies
Anna Thut
Katelyn Urena
Amanda Wadams, M.A., CCC-SLP
Jocelyn Wilcoxon, B.A., SLPA

Contact Us

ANCDS
2345 Rice Street, Suite 220
St. Paul, MN 55113
Online: www.ancds.org
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 651-925-5528
Fax: 651-317-8048

Have feedback or suggestions for the newsletter? Contact us here!

President's Message

Dear ANCDS Members, 

Greetings ANCDS Community!  Having survived the fits and starts of January, I hope you have settled into 2024 with a renewed energy to take on the goals and challenges you have set.  Let me take the opportunity to thank you for making ANCDS one of your priorities, understanding there are so many worthy causes competing for our creative energies and philanthropic resources.  As will be highlighted throughout this newsletter, the various boards and committees of ANCDS continue to be incredibly productive in forwarding the mission of ANCDS.  It is within these boards and committees that the work of ANCDS is accomplished and our vision is achieved.  To ensure the continued strength of these incredibly active boards and committees, an ad hoc committee has been formed to help streamline the process of recruiting and engaging volunteers to lead and serve on committees.  The goal is to both ensure that all ANCDS members have the opportunity to contribute to the organization’s work by serving on committees and/or boards and to ensure that the work of the boards and committees is sustained by intentional succession planning.  The Ad Hoc Committee will be led by Past President Lynn Maher, Ph.D., CCC-SLP.  In the meantime, I encourage you to consider whether you might contribute to ANCDS’s mission through one of the following leadership opportunities:

Get Involved: Embark on a journey of leadership and influence with two exciting roles available for the coming year!

• Option 1 - Professional Affairs Committee Chair: Are you passionate about fostering collaboration across organizations?
• What's In It For You: Join us in shaping the communicative lives of individuals affected by neurological disorders.  As Chair of the Professional Affairs Committee, you'll initiate and maintain connections with professional associations and consumer organizations that share our commitment.  Become an interprofessional leader, and let's amplify the impact of ANCDS together!

• Option 2 - Finance Committee Chair: Ready to secure financial support and sponsors for ANCDS?
• What's In It For You: Take the reins as the Chair of the Finance Committee (soon to be renamed the "Development Committee", pending membership ratification), and play a pivotal role in driving revenue from various sources.  Whether it's advertising, sponsorship, marketing, grants, or donations – your contribution will fuel the growth of ANCDS.

Commitment: Lead the way by scheduling and facilitating monthly committee meetings, supported by an ANCDS Board Member dedicated to assisting and elevating your work.

I am excited to serve as ANCDS President this year and look forward to partnering with the Executive Board and the ANCDS boards and committees to advance our mission: “Enhancing the communicative lives of people affected by neurologic disorders.”

Warm regards,

Heather (Hetty) Clark, Ph.D., BC-ANCDS
ANCDS President 
[email protected]

ANCDS New Member Spotlight: Bridget Xia

Name: Bridget Xia
Organization: University of Virginia

ANCDS Committee Spotlight: Elizabeth Madden

Name: Elizabeth B. Madden, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Title: Assistant Professor
Committee: Aphasia Writing Group
Term: 2015-present

I have been a member of the ANCDS Aphasia Writing Group since 2015.  I joined as a doctoral student, and over the years have received stellar mentorship from this group and gained valuable friendships, too.  Involvement with this group has allowed me to dive deep into aspects of the aphasia literature I might not have explored on my own, and has provided the opportunity for me to learn new research skills, such as learning how to use software programs to oversee systematic review projects.  Being a part of this group helps me feel connected to other aphasia researchers, and our group meetings are always full of a good mix of science and laughs. Working in this group makes the tedious research more fun.  I’ve enjoyed sharing our work together at conferences and publishing our work in respected journals.  Overall, I feel lucky to be on this research team that works collegially and collaboratively to produce research products that we hope are clinically useful and contribute to improving the quality of life for individuals with aphasia and their families. 

Volunteer Spotlight: Kim Eichhorn 

Name: Kimberly A. Eichhorn, M.S., CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, ATP
Organization: VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Hey, ANCDS members, if I asked you if you had time to volunteer for a committee, you’d probably tell me no.  But, please keep reading.  If you’re anything like me, you tend to be an all-or-nothing kind of person, so the idea of volunteering time you might not have seems completely unrealistic.  This is my fifth year in some form of voluntary role with ANCDS and I’ve gotten so much more than I’ve given.  My volunteer work with ANCDS has blossomed into professional and personal connections that I did not expect.  These colleagues and now friends continue to challenge me clinically, encourage me professionally, share my drive to advance the care of persons with neurologic communication disorders, and don’t get tired of talking about it!  I’ve recently been drawn to a “new to me” concept: micro-volunteering.  Maybe you don’t have a lot of time, but you can still make a difference in our organization.  Let me challenge you to check out the ANCDS Boards and Committees webpage.  Reach out to the chair, find out what their goals are for this year, and how big or small of a part you can play in them.  I promise you won’t regret the time you spend or the new friends you’ll make!

Membership Survey Results

In late 2023, the ANCDS Membership Committee conducted a survey.  The survey data was presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting, but since only a portion of our members were able to attend, we wanted to distribute the data to everyone.  You can review the data collected from the membership survey here. 

Board Certified Member Request

We would like to request that each of you review and update your online profile to include your area(s) of expertise.  While this is optional, and members often do not indicate such information, having this on file will help us in cases when ANCDS may need to reach out for assistance on specific matters about given areas of expertise.  We are hoping to have these updates completed by March 31.  Instructions on how to do so are included below.

Instructions: After logging in to the ANCDS website using the “Member Login” link, select “Update your profile”, and then “Edit profile”.  Under “Area(s) of expertise”, select the options relevant to you, holding down the “command” key to select more than one option.  Feel free to add additional neurologic-related areas under “Area(s) of expertise other” (PPA or other neurodegenerative disorders, functional/nonorganic, executive function, etc).  Once completed, select “Save profile” at the top of the page.

Diana Petroi-Bock, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, BCS-S
ANCDS Board of Clinical Certification Chair

Board Certification Mentoring

Did you know that the Board of Clinical Certification has a mentoring program for members considering Board Certification?

The purpose of the ANCDS Board Certification Mentoring Program is to support individuals who are considering applying for Board Certification.  It is led by two Board Certified members, and the current program runs twice a year for three months with meetings from 6:00-7:30 CT every other week during the three-month period.  Participants may attend some or all of the meetings. 

The meeting content includes Q&A relative to the certification process, real-time review of case studies approved by the board (with permission from the authors), and clinical case discussions.  Feedback may be provided relative to the categories required for certification cases.  However, direct feedback and discussion regarding cases being submitted for Board Certification review will not be provided.  For more information, contact Diana Petroi-Bock, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, at [email protected].

 

ASHA Announcements

Practice

IPEC Faculty Development Institute, May 21-23, 2024

ASHA is again offering a stipend program for ASHA members to participate in the virtual May 2024 Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Faculty Development Institute.  Participants will engage with national leaders in acquiring the “know-how” for interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) and will spend time planning, building, designing, assessing, and acting on their IPECP goals and projects.

Evidence Map Update: In addition to constantly adding new research summaries and topics, ASHA’s Evidence Maps regularly undergo enhancements to improve overall functionality.  Most recently, the service delivery filters have been reorganized to make it easier to locate relevant research about the impact of dosage, format, timing, and provider on intervention outcomes.  To see these changes in action, visit the Aphasia Evidence Map to see recommendations regarding assessment timing or try filtering by service delivery in any of our 55 Map topics.

Demonstrate Your Value: Engage with interested parties and advocate for the profession using the new Value of Cognitive Rehabilitation for Adults With Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) factsheet.  ASHA’s new library of demonstrating value PDFs includes several topics that show how our services enhance care coordination, reduce costs, and improve clinical outcomes.  Contact [email protected] to suggest a topic or provide feedback.

Are you an early-career researcher interested in acquiring tools to help you thrive in grant writing and research funding on education research or the scholarship of teaching and learning?  Grant Writing and Mentorship in Education Research (GAMER)—a four-day workshop co-sponsored by APTA, ACAPT, AOTA, and ASHA— connects scholars in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and audiology with a nationally recognized group of mentors, including representatives from potential funding sources.  The workshop helps attendees to:

• Develop grant writing skills,
• Polish proposals,
• Understand funding options, and
• Advance the science of health professions education and practice.

Applications Open: April 1, 2024

Applications Close: May 15, 2024

Workshop Dates: September 26 – 29, 2024

Culturally Responsive Teaching Resources: Check out ASHA’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning (CRTL) Special Collection for just-in-time resources for use in academic, clinical, and research education in communication sciences and disorders.

Aphasia Resources

Upcoming Conferences

Title: Saugatuck Institute for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (SINR) 2024
Date: September 17 – 21, 2024
Location: In-person: Saugatuck, MI
Registration: SINR – Advanced clinical training with an interdisciplinary approach (si-nr.org)

Member Accomplishments

Member Publications:

Centeno, J. G. (2024).  A call for transformative intersectional LPAA intervention for equity and social justice in ethnosocially diverse post-stroke aphasia services.  Seminars in Speech and Language, 45(01), 071-083.  https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1777131.

Centeno, J. G., & Laures-Gore, J. (2024).  Intersectionality in aphasia services for ethnosocially diverse adult populations.  Seminars in Speech and Language, 45(01), 001-004.  https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1778016.

Centeno, J. G., & Higby, E. (2024).  Toward an intersectional neurocognitive approach to management of post-stroke aphasia in multilingual ethnoracially diverse geriatric populations.  In M. Goral & A. Lerman (Eds.), Advances in the neurolinguistic study of multilingual and monolingual adults: In honor of Professor Loraine K. Obler  (p. 141-155).  Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003330318-14.

Centeno, J.G. (2023).  Neurolinguistic and neurocognitive considerations of language organization and processing in multilingual individuals.  In J. Guendouzi, F. Loncke, & M. J. Williams (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of psycholinguistic and cognitive processes 2^nd ed (pp. 477-489). Routledge.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003204213-34.

Perry, S., Troche, M., Huber, J., Curtis, J., Kiefer, B., Sevitz, J., Dennard, Q., Borders, J., Browy, J.R., Dakin, A., Gonzalez, V., Chapman, J., Wu, T., Katz, L., & Britton, D. (2024).  Behavioral Management of Respiratory/Phonatory Dysfunction for Dysarthria Associated With Neurodegenerative Disease: A Systematic Review.  Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 1-29. doi:10.1044/2023_ajslp-23-00274.

Wauters, L. D., Croot, K., Dial, H. R., Duffy, J. R., Grasso, S. M., Schaffer, K. M., Ballard, K. J., Clark, H. M., Kim, E., Murray, L. L., Rogalski, E. J., Kohley, L., Milman, L., Figeys, M., Henry, M. L. (2023).  Behavioral treatment for speech and language in primary progressive aphasia and primary progressive apraxia of speech: A systematic review.  Neuropsychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-023-09607-1.

Soltau, H., Shafran, I., Ottenwess, A., Duffy, J. R., Utianski, R. L., Barnard, L. R., ... & Botha, H. (2023, December).  Detecting Speech Abnormalities With a Perceiver-Based Sequence Classifier that Leverages a Universal Speech Model.  In 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU) (pp. 1-7). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ASRU57964.2023.10389789.

Dutta, M., Murray, L. L., Stark, B., & Bryant, L. (2024). FOQUS Aphasia: An initiative to facilitate research of spoken discourse in aphasia and its translation into improved evidence-based practice for discourse treatment.  In A. Pak-Hin Kong (Ed.), Spoken discourse impairments in the neurogenic populations: A state-of-the art, contemporary approach (pp. 305-316).  Switzerland: Springer.

Hoepner, J.K. & Blake, M.L. (2025).  Acquired Neurogenic Communication Disorders: An Integrated Clinical Approach.  Plural Publishing.  ISBN13: 978-1-63550-425-5.

Kent, Raymond D. (2024).  Handbook on Children's Speech: Development, Disorders, and Variations.  Plural Publishing.

Hux, K., Knollman-Porter, K., Wallace, S. E., Bevelhimer, A., & Singh, Y. (2024).  Modality Synchronization When People With Aphasia Read With Text-to-Speech Support.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-9.

Mayer, J.F., Madden, E.B., Mozeiko, J., Murray, L.L., Patterson, J.P., Purdy, M., Sandberg, C.W., Wallace, S.E.  Generalization in Aphasia Treatment: A Tutorial for Speech-Language Pathologists.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 2024 Jan 3;33(1):57-73. doi: 10.1044/2023_AJSLP-23-00192.  Epub 2023 Dec 5. Review.  PubMed PMID: 38052053.

Gatto, R. G., Meade, G., Duffy, J. R., Clark, H. M., Utianski, R. L., Botha, H., ... & Whitwell, J. L. (2024).  Combined assessment of progressive apraxia of speech brain microstructure by diffusion tensor imaging tractography and multishell neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging.  Brain and Behavior, 14(1), e3346. DOI: 10.1002/brb3.3346.

Minga, J., Rich, T., Boukrina, O., Chen, P., & Hreha, K. (2024).  Identifying Spatial Neglect in Chronic Right Hemisphere Stroke Survivors Using the RHDBank Outcomes.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-13.

Mozeiko, J., Suting, L., & Lindsey, A. (2024).  Assessing Discourse Ability in Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury.  In Spoken Discourse Impairments in the Neurogenic Populations: A State-of-the-Art, Contemporary Approach (pp. 203-216).  Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Kankam, K. & Murray, L. L. (2024).  Rehabilitation of post-stroke aphasia in Ghana.  International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.  DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.13000.

Modarreszadeh, A., Mehri, A., Nejati, V., Khatoonabadi, A. R., & Murray, L. L. (2024).  The effects of adding attention training to naming therapy for individuals with aphasia.  Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2024.2315555.

Sedzro, M. T., Murray, L. L., Garnett, A., Nouvet, E., Kankam, K., & Fiadzomor, P. (2024).  Exploring the lived experiences of family caregivers of stroke patients in Africa: A scoping review of qualitative evidence.  Brain Injury. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2024.2310798.

Nip, I. S. B. (2024).  Articulatory and vocal fold movement patterns during loud speech in children with cerebral palsy.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67, 477-493 https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00411.

Nip, I. S. B., Arias, C. R., Corcoran, J., Ishihara, N., & Goble, D. J. (2023).  Proprioceptive acuity influences speech-motor control in healthy adult talkers.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research.  https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00149

Raymer, A.M., & Roitsch, J. (2023).  Effectiveness of constraint-induced language therapy for aphasia: Evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32, 2393-2401.  doi: 10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00248.

Tetzloff, K.A., Duffy, J.R., Clark, H.M., Josephs, K.A., Whitwell, J.L., and Utianski, R.L. (2024).  Characterizing Speech Errors Across Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech Subtypes.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. DOI: 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00577.

Tetzloff, K. A., Martin, P. R., Duffy, J. R., Utianski, R. L., Clark, H. M., Botha, H., ... & Whitwell, J. L. (2024).  Longitudinal flortaucipir, metabolism, and volume differ between phonetic and prosodic speech apraxia.  Brain, awae016.  DOI: 10.1093/brain/awae016.

Utianski, R. L., & Bridge, M. J. (2023). Identifying and Treating Functional “Nonnative [Foreign] Accent Syndrome”: Perspectives From the Patient and Speech-Language Pathologist.  Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1-9. DOI: 10.1044/2023_PERSP-23-00102.

Wiepert, D. A., Utianski, R. L., Duffy, J. R., Stricker, J. L., Barnard, L., Josephs, K. A., ... & Botha, H. (2023, December).  Not All Errors Are Created Equal: Evaluating The Impact of Model and Speaker Factors on ASR Outcomes in Clinical Populations.  In 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU) (pp. 1-6).  IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ASRU57964.2023.10389723.

Steinberg Lowe, M., Braun, E., Wallace, S.E. Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) for Individuals With Aphasia.  Arch Phys Med Rehabil.  2023 Nov 29;. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2023.10.015.  [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38032553.

Wallace, S.E., Hux, K., Knollman-Porter, K., Patterson, B., Brown, J.A.  A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Experience of People With Aphasia Using Text-to-Speech Technology to Support Virtual Book Club Participation.  Am J Speech Lang Pathol.  2023 Nov 6;32(6):2768-2791. doi: 10.1044/2023_AJSLP-23-00094.  Epub 2023 Sep 7. PubMed PMID: 37678193; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10721254.