Mary Boyle Presents Keynote Address and Workshop at Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders Conference

Mary Boyle, professor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, delivered the invited keynote address, Clinician-Friendly Discourse Outcome Measures for Aphasia, and an invited workshop, Evidence-Based Practice for Adult Language Disorders, at the 14th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders, on September 21, 2019 in Philadelphia, PA. Co-presenters of the workshop were Dr. Gayle DeDe of Temple University and Dr. Elizabeth Hoover of Boston University.

Dr. Boyle was also a co-author with her doctoral student, Christa Akers, MA, CCC-SLP and Dr. Roberta J. Elman on the Saffran-Scholar-award-winning poster, Evaluating the Reliability and Sensitivity to Change of Complete Utterances in Structured Discourse. The Saffran Conference is funded by a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and from an endowment established by Drs. Jenny Saffran and Seth Pollack.