CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

With Liles, B.Z. & Duffy, R.J. "Cognitive Framework: Discourse Deficits in Traumatically Brain Injured Adults." In Discourse Studies in Adult Clinical Populations, edited by R. Bloom, L. Obler, S. DeSanti & J. Erhlich, 1993: 95-110.

With Gracco, V., Fourakis, M., Rossetti, M., & Oshima, K. "Clinical Application of Instrumental Techniques in the Assessment of Dysarthria: Case Study." In Motor Speech Disorders: Advances in Assessment and Treatment, edited by J. Till, D. Beukelman, & K. Yorkston, 1993: 103-117.

With Liles, B.Z. & Duffy, R.J. "Communication and Swallowing Disorders in Traumatic Brain Injury." In Traumatic Brain Injury. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, edited by S. Berrol, 1992: 371-388.

With Ferranti, R.D., Roberto, M., & Brown, C. "Oral Intake, O2, Dyspnea, Dysphagia and Other Considerations in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients." In Nutrition and Ventilatory Function, edited by R.D. Ferranti, C .Rampulla, C. Fracchia & N. Ambrosino , NY: Springer-Verlag, 1992: 187-195.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

With DeRuyter, F. & Stein, M. "Treatment Efficacy for Cognitive-Communication Disorders Resulting from Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults." Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 39 (1996): S5-S17.

With Neiman, M.R., Duffy, R.J., & Belanger, S.A. "An Investigation of a System of Simplified Scoring for the Kaufman Hand Movements Test as a Measure of Limb Apraxia." Perceptual and Motor Skills 82 (1995): 267-271.

With Boyle, M. "Application of Semantic Feature Analysis as a Treatment for Aphasic Dysnomia." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 4 (1995): 94-98.

"Discourse Deficits Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Critical Review of the Recent Literature." Aphasiology 9 (1995): 409-429.

With Liles, B.Z. & Duffy, R.J. "Impairments of Discourse Abilities and Executive Functions in Traumatically Brain Injured Adults." Brain Injury 9 (1995): 471-477.

With Neiman, M.R., Duffy, R.J. & Belanger, S.A. "The Concurrent Validity of the Kaufman Hand Movement Test as a Measure of Limb Apraxia." Perceptual and Motor Skills 79 (1994): 1279-1282.

With Driscoll, B. P, Gracco, C., et al. "Laryngeal Function in Post-polio Patients." Laryngoscope 105 (1994): 35-41.

With Liles, B.Z., Duffy, R.J., Clarkson, J.V. & Elia, D. "Longitudinal Assessment of Narrative Discourse in a Mildly Aphasic Adult." Clinical Aphasiology 22 (1994): 145-155.

With Purdy, M.H. & Duffy, R.J. "An Investigation of the Communicative Use of Trained Symbols Following Multimodality Training." Clinical Aphasiology 22 (1994): 345-356.

With Belanger, S.A. & Duffy, R.J. "An Investigation of Limb Apraxia Regarding the Validity of Current Assessment Procedures." Clinical Aphasiology 22 (1994): 191-202.

With Liles, B.Z., Duffy, R.J. & Clarkson, J.V. "Conversational Patterns of Aphasic, Closed Head Injured, and Normal Speakers." Clinical Aphasiology 21 (1993): 183-192.

With Ferranti, R.D. "Incidence and Nature of Dysphagia in a Group of Polio Survivors." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 72 (1991): 1071-1075.

With Boyle, M. & Kimbarow, M. "Word Fluency Tasks: A Preliminary Analysis of Variability." Aphasiology 5 (1991): 171-182.

With Liles, B.Z. & Duffy, R.J. "Analysis of Conversational Discourse in Head Injured Adults." Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 6 (1991): 92-98.

With Liles, B.Z. & Duffy, R.J. "Discourse Analyses with Closed Head Injured Adults: Evidence for Differing Patterns of Deficits." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 72 (1991): 465-468.

With Liles, B.Z. & Duffy, R.J. "The Use of Discourse Analyses for the Evaluation of Higher Level Traumatically Brain Injured Adults." Brain Injury 5 (1991): 381-392.

With Liles, B.Z. & Duffy, R.J. "Contextual Influences on Narrative Discourse in Normal Young Adults." Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 19 (1990): 405-420.

"Acquisition and Generalization of Simple Manual Sign Grammars by Aphasic Subjects." Journal of Communication Disorders 23 (1990): 383-400.

With Duffy, R.J. "Sign Acquisition in Two Subjects with Limb Apraxia." Aphasiology 4 (1990): 1-8.

"Manual Sign Acquisition and Use in Two Aphasic Subjects." Clinical Aphasiology 19 (1989): 209-218.

With Duffy, R.J. & Purdy, M.H. "Communicative Abilities in an Aphasic Deaf Adult." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 70 (1989): 159-161.

With Liles, B.Z., Duffy, R.J. & Zalagens, M.R. "Effects of Elicitation Procedures on the Narratives of Normal and Closed Head Injured Adults." Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 54 (1989): 356-366.

With Ferranti, R.D. "Dysphagia in Post Polio Sequelae: Report of Three Cases." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 69 (1988): 634-636.

With Murphy, K. "Monitoring Productivity in a Hospital Based Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Program." Asha 30 (1988): 45-48.

With Kimbarow, M. & Boyle, M. "A Longitudinal Study of Word Fluency Response Strategies in Two Aphasic Subjects." Clinical Aphasiology 17 (1987): 233-242.

"Preliminary Findings on the Nature of Dysphagia in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." Dysphagia 2 (1987): 28-31.

With Duffy, R.J. "The Relationship of the Acquisition of Manual Signs to Severity of Aphasia: A Training Study." Brain and Language 31 (1987): 328-345.

"Sign Acquisition and Use Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Case Report." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 68 (1987): 229-231.

With Duffy, R.J. "Effects of Iconicity, Motoric Complexity and Linguistic Function on Sign Acquisition in Severe Aphasia." Perceptual and Motor Skills 63 (1986): 519-530.

With Duffy, R.J. "Communicative Use of Signs in Aphasia: Is Acquisition Enough?" Clinical Aphasiology 15 (1985): 222-228.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED (last 4 years):

With Ward-Lonergan, J. "Recovery of Discourse Abilities in Mild Aphasia." Seventh International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, Boston, MA, August 1996.

With Liles, B.Z. & Duffy, R.J. "Relationship Between Cognitive Variables and Narrative Discourse in Closed Head Injury." Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Newport, RI, June 1996.

With Neiman, M.R., Duffy, R.J. & Belanger, S.A. "Kaufman Hand Movement Test: Simplified Scoring for Limb Apraxia." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Orlando, FL, December 1995.

"Impairments of Discourse and Executive Functions in Traumatically Brain Injured Adults." Fifth Annual Connecticut State University Research Foundation Conference, Danbury, CT, September 1995.

With Boyle, M. "Application of Semantic Feature Analysis as a Treatment for Aphasic Dysnomia." Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Sunriver, OR, June 1995.

With Ward-Lonergan, J.M. "Longitudinal Sampling of Conversational Abilities in Mild Aphasia." Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Dayton, OH, April 1995.

With Elia, D. & Belanger, S.A. "Clinical Application of Discourse Analyses with Brain-Injured Adults." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 1994.

With Elia, D., Liles, B.Z., Duffy, R.J. & Belanger, S.A. "An Investigation of Sample Size in Conversation Analysis." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 1994.

With Belanger, S.A. & Elia, D. "The Efficacy of Discourse Modeling for a Fluent Aphasic Subject." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, November 1994.

With Neiman, M.R., Duffy, R.J. & Belanger, S.A. "Hand Position as a Test of Limb Apraxia." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, November 1994.

With Driscoll, B., Gracco, C.A. & Goldstein, J. "Laryngeal Function in Post-Polio." Sixth International Post-Polio and Independent Living Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 1994.

With Ferranti, R., Gracco, C.A. & Driscoll B. "Swallowing Problems in Post-Polio: a Four Year Follow-up." Sixth International Post-Polio and Independent Living Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 1994.

With Elia, D. & Belanger, S.A. "A Survey of the Clinical Application of Discourse Analysis." Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Traverse City, MI, June 1994.

With Driscoll, B.P., Gracco, C.A., Goldstein, J., Oshima, K., Tierney, E. & Sasaki, C.T. "Laryngeal Function in Post-polio Patients." Eastern Section Meeting of the Triological Society, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 1994.

With Ward-Lonergan, J.M. "Longitudinal Analysis of Conversational Skills in a Mildly Aphasic Adult." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Anaheim, CA, November 1993.

With Elia, D. & Liles, B.Z. "Characterizing Conversational Competence in High Level Closed Head Injured Patients." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Anaheim, CA, November 1993.

With Purdy, M.H. "Problem Solving in Aphasia: Three Nonverbal Tasks." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Anaheim, CA, November 1993.

With Jordan, J.R. "Factors Influencing Treatment Recommendations for Adults with Right-hemisphere Damage." Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Sedona, AZ, June 1993.

With Purdy, M.H. "Nonverbal Problem Solving in Aphasia." Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Sedona, AZ, June 1993.

WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP (last 7 years):

"Documenting Treatment Benefits in Medical Speech-Language Pathology Settings." Workshop sponsored by the Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, June 1996.

"Management of Discourse Problems in the Neurologically Impaired Adult." Workshop sponsored by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Dallas, TX, February 1996.

"Differential Diagnosis of Neurogenic Language Disorders in Adults." Workshop sponsored by Sundance Rehabilitation, Shelton, CT, January 1996.

"Assessment and Treatment of Discourse Deficits Following Stroke. No Easy Answers: "The Care and Rehabilitation of the Stroke Patient." Conference sponsored by North Memorial Medical Center, Robbinsdale, MN, September 1994.

"Discourse Analyses with Brain Injured Adults." Workshop sponsored by the Hospital for Special Care, New Britain, CT, July 1994.

"Management of Discourse Problems in the Neurologically Impaired Adult." Workshop sponsored by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 1994.

"Management of Discourse Problems in the Neurologically Impaired Adult." Workshop sponsored by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, San Francisco, March 1994.

"Management of Dysphagia in a Rehabilitation Setting." Team Approach to Nutrition Care Conference, Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford, CT, October 1993.

"Management of Discourse Problems in the Neurologically Impaired Adult." Workshop sponsored by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 1992.

"Closed Head Injury: Clinical Overview from a Pragmatic Perspective. Basics and Beyond Conference." Newark, NJ, March 1992.

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL (use keywords):

Traumatic Brain Injury; Aphasia; Discourse Deficits; Dysphagia

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

"Cognitive-Communicative Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury." In Introduction to Medical Speech-Language Pathology, edited by C.T. Ferrand & R.L. Bloom (in press as of late 1996).

With Belanger, S.A. & Duffy, R.J. "The Assessment of Limb Apraxia: An Investigation of Task Effects and Their Cause." Brain and Cognition (in press as of late 1996).

Discourse deficits subsequent to closed head injury

DISSERTATION TITLE:

An Investigation of Manual Sign Acquisition and Use in Chronic Aphasia

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

University of Connecticut