The Brain and Aphasia Recovery Lab (BARLab), led by Gerald C. Imaezue, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, presented two original research posters at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, held Oct. 26-28.
The presentations, titled "Recursive self-feedback enables target language production in bilingual aphasia with pathological language mixing" and "Patterns of pathological language mixing during spontaneous speech in bilingual aphasia," contribute to the limited research on pathological language mixing, a clinically significant but relatively underexplored phenomenon in bilingual aphasia. These studies advance understanding of how bilingual speakers with aphasia navigate and control their two languages in spontaneous communication.
Doctoral student Celine Davis was named one of the recipients of the 2025 Academy of Aphasia NIDCD-Sponsored Mentoring Award. The competitive program, funded through the NIDCD R13 conference grant (R13 DC017375, PI: Swathi Kiran), supports promising student investigators by pairing them with senior mentors and providing opportunities to present their research at the conference.