Marjorie Nicholas, PhD, CCC-SLP, FASHA, is Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and is a professor specializing in adult neurogenic communication disorders.
She founded the MGH Institute's onsite Aphasia Center, which provides diagnostic and treatment services to adults with aphasia and related communication impairments. The Aphasia Center operates on the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA) model.
Prior to joining the MGH Institute, she was a speech-language pathologist for over 15 years at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
She has co-authored numerous research articles on aphasia and language in normal aging, and is co-author of various assessment and treatment materials for aphasia including the book, Manual of Aphasia and Aphasia Therapy (3rd edition), the Boston Assessment of Severe Aphasia (BASA), the Sentence Production Program for Aphasia (SPPA), and the C-Speak Aphasia software program.
She also is a research collaborator with Dr. Lisa Tabor Connor at Washington University St. Louis on investigations of factors related to life participation in people with and without aphasia post-stroke.
Dr. Nicholas became a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (FASHA) in 2017.