News & Events
September 9th, 2022
On September 9th, our lab participated in the annual Great Lakes Stuttering Symposium held at the Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing.
The meeting was organized by Dr. J. Scott Yaruss at MSU and featured many speakers (including us) that work mostly in the Great Lakes region. A highlight of this year’s meeting included a Ph.D. student session where study ideas were shared in an informal manner to generate feedback and discussions.
Catch our Mobile Lab Van cruising across Ann Arbor!
July & August, 2022
This past July, the Speech Neurophysiology Lab has been active with our new Mobile Lab Van. In conjunction with the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) system, our lab has been attending numerous events across all AADL Branches, spreading the word about our research opportunities and connecting with the community at large.
Below is a list of AADL events our lab attended in July, as well as future events we will attend in August. If you find yourself at one of these fun AADL events, make sure to stop by our van to learn more about our lab, make some cool brain hats, and take advantage of free speech and hearing testing. See you at the library!
July 2022 Events:
July 12th: Origami Paper Wall Hanging (Traverwood Branch)
July 16th: A2 Comic Arts Festival (Downtown)
July 17th: Paper Plate Flying Saucer (Mallets Creek)
July 19th: Straw Bridge Engineering (Pittsfield)
July 25th: Cabbage Juice Chemistry (Downtown)
Upcoming Events in August 2022:
Thursday, August 4th from 2-3 PM: Domino Days (Traverwood)
Friday, August 5th from 1-2 PM: Tiny Window Greenhouse (Downtown)
Tuesday, August 9th from 3-6 PM: Fatherhood Event- Prospect Park, Ypsilanti (Non-AADL)
Wednesday, August 17th from 3:30-5:30 PM: Elements Preschool (Non-AADL)
Saturday, August 27th from 11 AM-3 PM: Ann Arbor Summerfest (Non-AADL)
Check out our full 2022 Summer newsletter. Thank you for your continued interest in our research!
To read previous newsletters, click here.
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May 27-30, 2022
Members of our research lab attended, presented, and spoke at the 2022 Joint World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering in Montreal, Canada!
Dr. Soo-Eun Chang (middle/bottom) was a keynote speaker with her presentation titled "Recent developments in stuttering from neurological, emotional and motor perspectives."
She was also the recipient of the Researcher Award from the International Fluency Association
Dr. Emily Garnett (top right) presented her work on auditory rhythm perception in adults who stutter.
Postdoc Shanley Treleaven (top left) presented her work examining expressive syntax and vocabulary development in children who stutter and controls
March, 2022
We are excited to announce the arrival of our new mobile research lab! This van was purchased through funds received from two generous donors- Arsen Tomsky (@Arsen Tomsky) and Mike Pinkert.
Outfitted like a research office space, the inside of this van can be used to collect behavioral and neurophysiological data. We hope that our research van will help increase representation of diverse populations in our study sample so that they are more representative of the general population.
We are aiming to recruit and test young children who stutter as well as typically developing children for new and ongoing EEG and fMRI studies.
In the future, we plan to use the van to deliver intervention for child and adult participants, which may follow an intensive delivery schedule (daily participation).
Click here to check out an article written about our van in the UofM Department of Psychiatry News & Publications page.
As the characters on our van say, Go Blue! For Research!
February, 2022
SNL members were at the Speech Motor Conference in Charleston, South Carolina! Dr. Valeria Caruso (right) gave a presentation on dynamics of neural oscillations in children who stutter, and Dr. Shanley Treleaven presented a poster on the links between error processing and cerebellar morphometric measures.