2017
December 06, 2017
Dr. Chang participated in the Henry Steward Talk (HSTalks) series "Speech Dysfluency".
November 09, 2017
SNL lab members Ho Ming Chow and Emily Garnett, along with Dr. Jennifer Chesters (Oxford University), were invited speakers at the ASHA convention held in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Chang chaired this seminar at ASHA entitled: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Measures of Speech Fluency & Brain Activity.
Ho Ming Chow and Andrew Etchell's poster entitled "Individual Differences in White Matter Integrity in Childhood Stuttering", was designated as a Meritorious Poster.
September 26, 2017
Notice of Award received on a new NIH R21 grant (PI: Liu, Co-Is Chang, Fitzgerald) titled: “Psychological and Neurophysiological Risk Markers of Persistent Stuttering in Early Development”. Congrats to Dr. Liu on this achievement! Exciting work on anxiety markers for childhood stuttering to begin!
September 20, 2017
Dr. Chang attended the Oxford Dysfluency Conference (September 20-23) held at St. Catherine's College at Oxford University. New work from the lab was presented: "Differences in the developmental trajectories of subcortical structures in childhood stuttering" (authors: Emily Garnett, Ho Ming Chow, Soo-Eun Chang).
September 01, 2017
Our lab's research was featured in the most recent issue of the Capital Women's Lifestyle Magazine (Lansing). To check it out, please click here
August 17, 2017
Madeline Van Eck has joined the lab as the lab manager on the MSU campus. To read more about Madeline, click here. Madeline replaces Chelsea Johnson, who will be transitioning as a PhD student this fall at MSU, in the department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. She will still work in the lab but now as a doctoral student. Congratulations to both Madeline and Chelsea!
August 08, 2017
Ho Ming Chow and Andrew Etchell's 2017 ASHA Convention Poster presentation titled, "Individual Differences in White Matter Integrity in Childhood Stuttering", has been designated as a Meritorious Poster Submission. The Meritorious Poster Submission recognition is for proposals judged by the Convention Program Committee to show extraordinary, exceptional, and innovative work (~3% of submissions receive this distinction). Congrats Ho Ming and Andrew!
July 11, 2017
New article from the lab entitled: Social and Cognitive Impressions of Adults Who Do and Do Not Stutter Based on Listeners' Perceptions of Read-Speech Samples is in Press in Frontiers in Psychology. By Lauren Amick, Soo-Eun Chang, Juli Wade, J. Devin McAuley.
July 05, 2017
Emily Garnett and Soo-Eun Chang attended the 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, held in Groningen, Netherlands. Emily gave a poster presentation entitled: "Modulating neural activity with non-invasive brain stimulation in adults who stutter."
Dr. Chang was an invited speaker, and gave a presentation entitled: "Neural signatures of childhood stuttering persistence and recovery"
July 03, 2017
Soo-Eun Chang gave an invited all-day workshop ("Neural bases of childhood stuttering persistence and recovery: Updates for the informed clinician") at the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
June 26, 2017
Ho Ming Chow and Andrew Etchell attended the Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) conference held in Vancouver, Canada. They each gave presentations:
Chow, H., Chang, S-E. (2017). Joint analysis of gray & white matter development trajectories associated with childhood stuttering. OHBM. Vancouver, Canada
Etchell, A.E., Wieland, E., Chow, H., McAuley, D., Chang, S-E. (2017). Increased left cerebellar functional connectivity with rhythm networks in adults who stutter. OHBM. Vancouver, Canada
June 23, 2017
Emily Garnett attended the Brain stimulation and imaging conference held in Vancouver, Canada.
June 16, 2017
The SNL summer newsletter is out! Click here to read about what we've been up to.
May 25, 2017
Dr. Emily Garnett, Postdoctoral fellow in the lab, has been selected to participate in the MICHR Postdoctoral Translational Scholars Program (PTSP) (https://www.michr.umich.edu/rdc/2016/3/18/post). The award includes research support for 2 years ($85,000) and rich mentorship opportunities. Congratulations Emily on this achievement!
May 13, 2017
We are seeking to fill a lab manager position at our MSU location. Details can be found on our available positions page.
May 08, 2017
It's National Stuttering Awareness Week! Head over to our Facebook Page to see what we are sharing to celebrate.
May 05, 2017
Check out a new article about how our lab, with the help of some child-friendly friends, help children have fun during MRI scanning!
April 15, 2017
Michigan lab members celebrated the end of another successful semester with a bowling party.
April 08, 2017
New article published in Human Brain Mapping, White matter developmental trajectories associated with persistence and recovery of childhood stuttering, is now available online! This is the first study to examine white matter tract development in a longitudinal sample of children who stutter. Results provide first evidence of developmental trajectory differences between children who persist in, vs recover from, childhood stuttering.
March 31, 2017
Dr. Chang was an invited speaker at the 2017 Boston Speech Motor Control Mini-symposium
March 21, 2017
New position opening for postdocs! Apply to join our thriving and exciting team of scientists, clinicians, and staff members conducting research to elucidate the neurobiological bases of stuttering. For details, please click here for more information.
February 17, 2017
Check out the lab's most recent article In Press in the Special Issue on NeuroImaging Studies on Stuttering in Journal of Fluency Disorders (Title: Anomalous network architecture of the resting brain in children who stutter) . In this article, whole brain connectomics analyses were used for the first time to comprehensively examine developmental functional connectivity differences in children who stutter. Furthermore, anomalous network connectivity patterns found in earlier scans predicted persistence or recovery from stuttering in later years.
January 09, 2017
Giving Blue – Thank You – and a Happy New Year! We would like to thank those who gave to the Matthew K. Smith Stuttering Research Fund on Giving Blue Day in November 2016. It’s now a new year, and with that comes a new opportunity to donate. All gifts up to 10,000 are being matched. Your donation supports innovative neurobiological research on stuttering. Our goal is to develop new and effective therapeutic interventions for those who stutter.
January 04, 2017
Dr. Garnett presented at the Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds Data Blitz. The title of her talk was Modulating brain activity in speech areas with noninvasive brain stimulation (HD-tDCS).