Research Studies

Study Title: Adult Outcomes after Childhood Brain Injury

My name is Jessica Riccardi, PhD CCC-SLP, and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Maine. I am conducting a research study to examine the adult outcomes of individuals who did or did not experience a brain injury during childhood. Participants must be between 25 and 80 years old. Please note, you do not have to have medical documentation for your brain injury in order to participate in this study. We are looking for individuals with diverse demographic characteristics so you will first participate in a phone or email screening to determine if you are eligible for the survey. This should take less than 5 minutes. If you are eligible, you will receive a link to the confidential online survey which should take less than one hour.

Compensation: If you answer at least 80% of the survey questions, you will receive a $30 electronic Amazon gift card.

Contact: If you are interested in participating or have any questions, please contact me at

jessica.riccardi@maine.edu

To whom it may concern,

I am a research assistant for the BEaR Lab at the University of Maine. We are currently recruiting speech-language pathologists for two research studies. We are hopeful you can share this research opportunity, including the attached images and text below, with members of your association. We sincerely appreciate your time. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions. Thank you!

The BEaR Lab at the University of Maine is recruiting speech-language pathologists for two online survey studies related to virtual reality (no experience with virtual reality is needed!)

The first study should take about 20 minutes and is for ASHA-certified SLPs who have worked with at least one child with an acquired brain injury in the last 5 years (including concussion). If you complete at least 80% of the survey, you’ll receive a $5 electronic Starbucks gift card. You can learn more about the survey and take the survey here.

The second study should take about an hour and is for ASHA-certified SLPs who have experience assessing cognitive communication disorders. If you complete at least 80% of the survey, you’ll receive a $25 electronic Amazon gift card. You can learn more about the survey and take the survey here.

If you have any questions, please contact Jessica Riccardi at jessica.riccardi@maine.edu

Thank you for considering participating in our research!

Hello!

My name is Matt Phillips, and I am completing my master’s thesis at the University of Connecticut and I am hoping that you’ll consider participating! I am seeking SLPs to participate in a survey about their current treatment practices with clients who stutter, regardless of experience or work setting. We are hoping to learn more about what SLPs currently do when working with this population, and your expertise would be greatly appreciated! The findings of this survey have the potential to inform clinical education and practice for (future) SLPs. All SLPs are welcome to participate in this survey, regardless of work setting, amount of experience with clients who stutter, or age of your clients who stutter. 

This survey is expected to take approximately 15-30 minutes to complete, and participants can enter a voluntary drawing to win 1 of 10 $25 virtual Amazon gift cards. 

Please contact me with any questions or concerns at matthew.phillips@uconn.edu. This survey is conducted under the direction of Dr. Tammie Spaulding, Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at UConn. This survey has been approved by the UConn IRB (a research ethics and review board): Protocol X23-0400.

“Let’s Talk Tech: Wireless Technology Survey for Providers!”

Audience: Actively practicing occupational, physical, or speech therapists or assistants, audiologists, assistive technology professionals, vocational rehabilitation counselors, or other health or social service providers in the U.S.

Research Subject: Understanding therapy and assistive technology providers’ experience delivering interventions that incorporate clients’ use of mainstream technology.

Brief Introduction & description: We are with the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology. The research “Voice of the Providers on Wireless Technology Survey” aims to understand therapy and assistive technology providers’ experience delivering interventions that incorporate clients’ use of mainstream technology, like smartphones, smart home tech, and wearables into interventions. If you qualify for this research, you’ll complete a 15–30-minute online survey covering demographic information, experience with MT interventions, barriers, facilitators, and education needs.

The purpose of the study is to better understand the current practices and barriers that are experienced during the assessment of multicultural and multilingual children. 

Inclusion criteria:

· Participants must be at least 18 years old.

· Primarily practicing as a school-based therapist.

· Must have assessed at least one multilingual or multicultural child.

CALLING SLPs

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT A LANGUAGE SCREENER FOR BILINGUAL SPANISH ENGLISH SPEAKING CHILDREN?

If so, we invite you to participate in a free training and follow-up activity to help us learn more about best practices for screening bilingual children.

• Are you a licensed speech-language pathologist working in the United States?
• Do you consider yourself monolingual (or without native or near native proficiency in Spanish)?

Participants who complete the full study will receive a $20 Amazon gift card as compensation.

Please click the link or scan the QR code below to learn more and determine if you are eligible to participate in a free training and follow-up activity.

This Research Study has been approved by Mass General Brigham IRB effective 2/2/2024

Are you a school-based SLP working with K-5? We want to learn about your perceptions of, and experiences with, collaborative language and literacy instruction with general education teachers. Please follow the link (https://tinyurl.com/collabslp) to complete our 10-minute research survey. We appreciate your willingness to contribute to our study!

Good evening! I hope this message finds you well. My name is Emily Williams, and I am a graduate student in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Mississippi. Currently, I am working in collaboration with the team at the Laboratory for Stuttering Science, Treatment, and Advocacy Research (SSTAR Lab), led by Dr. Greg Snyder. We are reaching out to the speech-language pathologists working with children (ages 8 to 12) in our public schools for assistance with a new online emotional resilience program for children who stutter. We would be very grateful if you could forward this information to those in your state through WVSHA at your earliest convenience, or if you could direct us to a WVSHA committee member who may be able to assist with that. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to reach out.

Thank you so much!

Emily Williams

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Dear Speech Language Pathologist,

Good day! My name is Emily Williams, and I am a graduate student in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Mississippi. Currently, I am working in collaboration with the team at the Laboratory for Stuttering Science, Treatment, and Advocacy Research (SSTAR Lab). I hope this message finds you well.

I am contacting you regarding a study we are conducting called “Effects of Emotional Resilience Training on the Quality of Life for Children Who Stutter.” As the study’s title implies, this research focuses on the emotional experience of children who stutter and seeks to develop a curriculum to improve their resilience when confronted with social dominance behavior (i.e., “bullies”). It is a 7-week online program covering 12 lessons that last 15-20 minutes, each, with pre- and post- surveys to measure the program’s efficacy.

We are looking for children ages 8 to 12 who stutter for this initial study. If you know of anyone who may fit those requirements and be interested, please consider sharing this information with them and their families. You may find out more about the project through our webpage https://csd.olemiss.edu/Resilience/. Interested participants and their families may view additional information about the program and begin our eligibility verification process through this Qualtrics survey:  https://uofmississippi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9TeCnyqOZepel5c.

This study has been reviewed by The University of Mississippi’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) #23-023. All participation is voluntary and may be withdrawn at any time. If you have any questions, concerns, or reports regarding research participant rights, please contact the IRB at 662-915-7482.

If you are interested, I may send a flier of our study as well as our consent form for parents to share with students and their families. Of course, I would be happy to answer any questions you may have about the study. You are welcome to contact me or my research supervisor, Dr. Greg Snyder, at Resilience@olemiss.edu. Thank you for your consideration!

Best,

Emily Williams

We are seeking information from special education practitioners, including school-based speech-language pathologists, special education teachers, early childhood special education teachers, and teachers of the deaf, regarding how they evaluate and determine initial special education eligibility for preschoolers who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) using listening and spoken language (LSL) as their communication mode. We recognize that hearing loss is a low-incidence disability. Respondents do not need to have evaluated a preschooler who is DHH to complete the survey. Rather, evaluating preschoolers for special education eligibility determinations should be part of their responsibilities, so that the respondent may encounter this situation in the future.

This study has IRB approval through the University of Alabama. The anonymous survey should take the respondent approximately 15-25 minutes to complete. The information from this survey will help us understand how preschoolers who are DHH using LSL are evaluated and considered for initial special education eligibility, which could help drive evidence-based assessment practices for children who are DHH.