Phone: (619) 594-6516
Office: ED-154
Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: mnewhoff@mail.sdsu.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Memphis

Professional Memberships/Affiliations:

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• California Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Academy of Neurological Communicative Disorders

Scholarly Areas:

Normal and disordered aspects of child language acquisition; neurological communicative disorders, especially those post cerebrovascular accident; bidirectional brain/language interactions and language processing

Biography:

Marilyn Newhoff is an internationally known scholar in the normal and disordered aspects of both child and adult language. Her numerous publications can be found in prestigious journals, as well as classroom and reference texts.

Dr. Newhoff was the Founding Editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. In 1992, in recognition of her contributions to the discipline of communication sciences and disorders, she received the Distinguished Alumnae Award from The University of Memphis.

Immediately prior to coming to SDSU, Dr. Newhoff served as the Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School at The University of Georgia.

Selected Publications:

• Wright, H.H., and Newhoff, M. (2004) Priming auditory comprehension in aphasia: Facilitation and interference effects. Aphasiology. 18: 555-565.

• Wright, H.H., and Newhoff, M. (2004) Inference revision processing in adults with and without aphasia. Brain and Language. 89: 450-463.

• Wright, H.H., Silverman, S., and Newhoff, M. (2003) Measures of lexical diversity in aphasia. Aphasiology. 17: 443-452.

• Wright, H. H., and Newhoff, M. (2002) Age-related differences in inference revision processing.. Brain and Language. 80: 226-239.

• Wright, H.H., and Newhoff, M. (2002) Inferencing and story retelling abilities of children with and without language learning disabilities. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 10: 308-319.

• Wright, H. H., and Newhoff, M. (2001) Revised inferencing processing as a measure of the working memory processing relationship.. Aphasiology. 15: 1069-1077.

• Rubin, S. S., Newhoff, M., Peach, R. K., and Shapiro, L. P. (1997) Electrophysiological indices of lexical processing: The effects of verb complexity and age.. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research. 39: 1071-1080.

• Newhoff, M., and Apel, K. (1996) Impairments in pragmatics. In LaPointe, L. (editors), Aphasia and related neurogenic language disorders. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, 250-265.

• Newhoff, M. Rationalism under siege. Is ASHA no longer a scientific and professional organization?. Rockville, MD: Asha Monographs, 1996.

• Hasselkus, A., Rubin, S. S., and Newhoff, M. (1995) Effect of generating a semantic prime: The impact of age and cognitive impairment. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 4: 148-155.

• Thorburn, L., Newhoff, M., and Rubin, S, S. (1995) Aphasic subjects' ability to visually analyze written language, pantomime, and iconographic symbols.. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 4: 174-179.

• Peach, R. K., and Newhoff, M. (1994) A topographic event-related potential analysis of the attention deficit for auditory processing in aphasia.. Clinical Aphasiology. 22: 81-96.

• Newhoff, M., and West, E. (1993) Toward an understanding of adult interactions with children delayed in communication skills.. Seminars in Speech and Language. 14: 253-263.

• Peach, R. K., Newhoff, M., and Rubin, S. S. (1993) Attention in aphasia as revealed by event-related potentials.. Clinical Aphasiology. 17: 323-333.