Student Research

Marywood University CSD undergraduate and graduate students conduct research that contributes to their coursework as well as to the Speech-Language Pathology profession.  Some recent examples include:

"The Effect of Reading Goals on a Cued Recall Task"

• Students: Kaitlyn Fierro, Amanda Cuth and Michaela Cullington
• Faculty Advisor: Vijayachandra Ramachandra
• Presentation Venue: Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science, Alberta, Canada; Marywood University Research Forum, April 2012

"Family-Level Factors of Young Children At-Risk for Being Non-Speaking Using the FACES IV"

• Students: Brittany Mikjalo and Lauren Olsen
• Faculty Advisor: Kara F. Medeiros
• Presentation Venue: American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA, 2012); marywood University Research Forum, April 2012

"Factors that Influence Children's Understanding of Pictoral Representation"

• Student: Kelsey Dunn
• Faculty Advisor: Vijayachandra Ramachandra
• Presentation Venue: 2013 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development; Marywood Unviersity Research Forum, Spring 2012

" Vocal Responses to Facial Emotions"

• Students: Karen Buckley, Christina Dixon and Sydney Pauline 
• Faculty Advisor: Vijayachandra Ramachandra, Sethu Karthikeyan
• Presentation Venue: Marywood University Research Forum, April 2012

"Verbal and Non-Verbal Maternal Interaction Stratgies in Young Children At-Risk for Being Non-Speaking With and Without a Voice Output Communication Aid"

• Students: Katherine DeTurk, Kristen Barilla and Alyssa Davis 
• Faculty Advisor: Kara F. Medeiros
• Presentation Venue: American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA, 2012); Marywood University Research Forum, April 2012

"The Lexical and Phonological Factors Related to Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia"

• Students: Karen Buckley, Christina Dixon and Sydney Pauline
• Faculty Advisor: Vijayachandra Ramachandra
• Presentation Venue: The 8th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon; Marywood University Research Forum, April 2012

"Data Organization of Agrammatism Therapies for Different Measures of Expressive Language"

• Students: Alyssa Davis, Mallory Dulsky, Addie Long, Meghin Palmer, Stephanie Zyblut 
• Faculty Advisor:  Dr. Bruce Wisenburn
• Presentation Venue: Marywood University Research Forum, April 2012

"A Meta-Analysis of Single-Subject Treatment Studies for Anomia"

• Student: Danielle Boucher
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bruce Wisenburn
• Presentation Venue: Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association, April 2011; Marywood University Research Forum

"Theory of Mind Reasoning in People with Aphasia: The role of Language and Executive Functions"

• Student: Elizabeth Schneider
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramachandra
• Presentation Venue: Behavior 2011 at Indiana University, Bloomington; Academy of Aphasia 2011, Montreal, Canada; Marywood University Research Forum 2011

"Systemizing, Empathizing, and Theory-of-Mind in Healthy Normal Adults"

• Students: Christina Salvo, Danielle Gerrato, Amanda Petronio, Jenna Beim, Bridget Mileski
• Faculy Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramanchandra
• Presentation Venue: National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2011, Ithaca College NY; Marywood Research Forum 2011

"The Relationship between Autism Quotient and Theory of Mind in Healthy Normal Adults."

• Students:  Emily Degnitz, Abigail Johnson, Bethany Savacool
  

• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramachandra
  

• Presentation Venue: Marywood University Research Forum 2010.
  

"The Influence of Musical Training on the Phonological Loop and the Central Executive"

• Students: Colleen Meighan, Jillian Gradzki
  

• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramachandra
  

• Presentation Venues:  Marywood University Research Forum 2010, The 2010 Pennsylvania Speech Language and Hearing Convention, The Penn State 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seattle, Washington.

"Semantic vs. Non-Semantic Whole Word Reading Therapy for Pure Alexia: A Case Study"

• Student:   Lauren Lettieri

• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramachandra

• Presentation Venues:Science of Aphasia, Potsdam, Germany  Marywood University Research Forum 2010

"A Meta-Analysis of Therapies for Agrammatism Due to Aphasia."

• Students:  Marilee Sobrinski, Caitlin Donahue

• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bruce Wisenburn

• Presentation Venue: Marywood University Research Forum 2010.