… Christodoulou, director of the Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Lab, and her team recently surpassed the 500-student mark in those who’ve been served by her lab’s … can shift dramatically. By the end of the summer, reading scores tend to decrease for most students. Reading is experience-dependent in that readers improve with … and intact as readers so they can pursue their interests and learn more easily. I’d like to emphasize how important it is to consider how children read, but also how …

… reading outcomes in students with reading disabilities (RD). So, she and her team recruited more than 150 school-age students from a wide range of SES backgrounds … can better guide how we assess and instruct students to read.” Christodoulou’s team used several techniques in collaboration with colleagues at MIT including Dr. … disorders ”, was published in the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience .  For students from higher-SES backgrounds, Christodoulou said RD was associated with …

… a recent event held at the RSM office, where she received more than $115,000 for the first year of three-year, $300,000 grant for her project, “The MGHIHP … of doubling the reach to tripling, serving about 150 children. Christodoulou and a team of MGH Institute graduate students have collaborated with Harvard-Kent and … Assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders Dr. Jenn Mackey and a team of Institute graduate students work with at-risk children who have previously …

… an annual initiative that ended earlier this month fostered reading opportunities for these students.  For the eighth straight year, the Summer Program in Literacy and … filled with pencils, crayons, folders, and notebooks. On top of that, the RSM team hired in an ice cream truck filled with summer treats for SPLASH students and … all day in the classroom.”  Added MGH Institute supervisor Rachel Norton: “I especially enjoyed building connections with the dedicated teachers and their …

… A Voice for Good … A Voice for Good Topics Clinical Experience Outcomes & Career Paths Area of Expertise … was seeing as a clinical fellow in the hospital’s inpatient speech department. “I noticed that many neurosurgery patients in the Neuro ICU didn’t come to see us … abilities as well.” Maguire eventually created the hospital’s SLP brain tumor team, which includes two other IHP graduates, Nate Somes, CSD ’20 and Sarah Steele, …

… comes from MGH Institute researcher Joanna Christodoulou ’s lab members, a team of 19 graduate students in the Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology , … pupils in grades K-6 from the Harvard-Kent and Warren-Prescott elementary schools for five weeks this summer.  This year’s program was supported in large part by the … to help develop the reading and writing skills of the children in my class which I will continue to use the skills that I’ve learned in my school clinical placements …