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Neurocognitive Approaches to Communication Disorders
(NIH Training Grant)
Summary of the Training Grant
The primary goal of this NIH-funded program is to train doctoral students in the conception, planning, and conduct of research in language and communicative disorders, with specific focus on research that is clinical in nature (e.g., assessment and intervention efficacy research) or essential to the clinical enterprise (e.g., clarifying the underlying nature of language impairment in children, developing accurate methods for assessing communication abilities in infants and toddlers, investigating brain-language relations in children and/or adults). The training will take place within the context of the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communication Disorders (JDP-LCP), with the specialized focus occurring through assignment to a mentor who has the appropriate clinically-focused research program to match the student's interests.Facilities
Our trainees have access to state-of-the-art experimental facilities in several departments at San Diego State University, including Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Psychology, and Linguistics; and in the departments of Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Psychology, the Center for Research in Language, and the recently completed fMRI Research Center at UCSD. Because one of the primary foci of this training grant is on clinical populations, the considerable resources of the SDSU Communications Clinic, clinical affiliates, SDSU affiliations with school systems and hospitals in and around San Diego, the VA Hospital, and the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UCSD, are available to trainees.Application Information
To apply include a letter of interest with your application to the JDP-LCP. APPLICATION DEADLINE for FALL, 2007: JANUARY 20, 2007. To obtain admission information and to download our application for Fall 2007 visit the application page.For questions about the training grant please contact Dr. Shapiro (shapiro@mail.sdsu.edu) or call, email or write to: SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182-1518, Telephone: (619) 594-6775, phdlancd@mail.sdsu.edu
Program Director: Lewis P. Shapiro, Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, SDSU.
Executive Committee: Lewis P. Shapiro, Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, SDSU; Vera Gutierrez-Clellen, Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, SDSU; Marilyn Newhoff, Dean, College of Health and Human Services, SDSU; Beverly Wulfeck, Professor and Director of the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, SDSU, and co-Director of the JDP-LCD.
Affiliated Faculty
- Jessica Barlow, SDSU School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
- Leslie Carver, UCSD Department of Psychology
- Gideon Déak, UCSD Department of Cognitive Science
- Karen Dobkins, UCSD Department of Psychology
- Karen Emmorey, SDSU School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and UCSD Center for Research on Language
- Julia Evans, SDSU School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
- Margaret Friend, SDSU Department of Psychology
- Vera Gutierrez-Clellen, SDSU School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
- Tracy Love-Geffen, SDSU School of Speech, Language, and UCSD Department of Psychology
- Sarah Mattson, SDSU Department of Psychology
- Ralph-Axel Müeller, SDSU Department of Psychology
- Marilyn Newhoff, SDSU School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
- Carol Padden, UCSD Communications Department
- Judy Reilly, SDSU Department of Psychology
- David Salmon, UCSD Department of Neurosciences and Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
- Lewis Shapiro, SDSU School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
- Doris Trauner, UCSD Department of Neurosciences
- Beverly Wulfeck, SDSU School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and UCSD Center for Research on Language
last updated: Nov. 14, 2006
