Michael Johnson, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded $159,000 for research on speech impairment. The award is part of a multi-institution $447,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, led by Dr. Jeff Berry in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette University. The funding will support a study using modified auditory feedback to elicit involuntary learning in patients with non-progressive dysarthria, a type of speech impairment associated with stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors. The goal is to improve patients’ sensorimotor control of articulatory kinematics and coordination for speech production.
Johnson Awarded NIH Grant for Non-Progressive Dysarthria Therapy
November 06, 2018
The funding will support a study using modified auditory feedback to elicit involuntary learning in patients with non-progressive dysarthria, a type of speech impairment associated with stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors.
