Thesis Defense – Elena Groves

420 Goodnight Hall
@ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Semantic Differences Alone Do Not Support Simultaneous Sensorimotor Adaptation in Balanced Homophones

Elena Groves

Thesis Defense – Madeline Hale

62 Goodnight Hall
@ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Analyzing the Relationship between Silent Pausing in Connected Speech and PET Amyloid and Tau in a Cognitively unimpaired Sample

Madeline Hale

Hearing and Donuts (Brain and Bagels) Seminar

Waisman Center
@ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Hearing loss (HL) impacts more than 40 million individuals in the United States and is the third most prevalent chronic health condition; however, there is very limited research on HL in individuals from communities of color. The work presented here is two-fold: (1) To better understand the prevalence of HL among communities of color; and (2) to explore attitudes about HL within these populations. Ultimately, this work is intended to offer insight into how to improve hearing healthcare within communities of color.

Sara Misurelli, Ph.D., Au.D., CCC-A

Thesis Defense – Claudia Schabes

62 Goodnight Hall
@ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Type and Complexity of Recodes in Parent-Child Interactions with Children with Down Syndrome

Claudia Schabes, M.S., CCC-SLP

Thesis Defense – Phoebe Crumpton

420 Goodnight Hall
@ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Speech-Language Pathologists’ Attitudes, Knowledge, and Academic Exposure to the Concept of Ageism

Phoebe Crumpton, M.S., CCC-SLP

Prosem Lecture: Early Signs of Voice Deficits and Muscle Pathology in the TgF344-AD Rat Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

62 Goodnight Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive degenerative condition that causes significant cognitive, communication, and swallowing deficits. Classically, central nervous system pathology is associated with these deficits. However recently, the peripheral nervous system has been implicated, but this is not well understood.

Denis Michael Rudisch, M.M., Dipl. Univ.

CANCELED: Hearing and Donuts (Brain and Bagels) Seminar

Waisman Center
@ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Post-operative and post-ictal delirium (POD, PID) are acute disorders of consciousness characterized by confusion, fluctuating arousal, impaired executive function, and perceptual disturbances. I will present initial observations on changes in neural activity and connectivity assayed from iEEG recordings in patients experiencing POD and PID.

A W crest banner flutters in the wind on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during autumn on Oct. 18, 2019. Photo by Jeff Miller /UW-Madison