Mentor: Dr. Michael Walsh Dickey, PhD
- Master’s in Speech Language Pathology, University of Pittsburgh
Education & Training
Emily is a licensed speech language pathologist and is a Ph.D. student in CSD, within the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. She participates as a trainee in the T32 Translational Research Training in Sleep Medicine program. Emily’s research focuses on moderators of language treatment outcomes in individuals with aphasia, an acquired language disorder that can impact one’s ability to produce and understand language. She is interested in how learning ability, which is supported by memory and other non-language cognitive functions, can influence therapy outcomes. Specifically, she aims to examine if post-stroke sleep dysfunction may impact cognitive processes that support learning in people with aphasia, and how this relationship may influence response to language intervention.