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Judy P. Walker is the Department Chair. Her academic and research interests include cognitive and linguistic impairment in adults subsequent to damage of the central nervous system. In addition to her academic background, Dr. Walker acquired extensive clinical training
while working with neurogenic populations at Massachusetts General Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, and as Head of Speech-Language Pathology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH.
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow 1994 Purdue University (Speech-Language Pathology)
Ph.D. 1994 University of Massachusetts (Speech-Language Pathology)
M.A. 1985 University of Houston (Speech-Language Pathology)
Courses
CSD 383 Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism
CSD 586 Current Issues in Aphasia and Right Hemisphere Deficits
CSD 687 Motor Speech and Swallowing Disorders
CSD 688 Neurocognitive Disorders in Adults
Association Memberships
Academy of Aphasia
Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Maine Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Maine Representative, National Aphasia Association
Selected Publications and Presentations
Walker, J.P.. Joseph, L., Currid, J. (November, 2007). Production of
Prosodic Structures in LHD subjects. The American
Speech-Language-Hearing Annual Convention. Boston, MA.
Walker, J. P. & Lin, E. (November, 2006). Acoustic Analysis in Foreign
Accent Syndrome: A Case Study. The American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association Annual Convention, Miami, FL.
Walker, J. P., White, S., Armitage, E., & Astbury, B. (2005,
October). Perception of lexical stress differences in LHD and RHD
subjects. Paper presented at the meeting of the Academy of Aphasia,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Walker, J. P., White, S., & Armitage, E. (2004, November).
Perception of lexical stress in LHD and RHD subjects. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Walker, J. P., Pelletier, R., & Reif, L. (2004). The production of linguistic prosody by subjects with right hemisphere damage. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics,
18(2), 85-106.
Van Putten, S. M., & Walker, J. P. (2003). The production of emotional prosody in varying degrees of severity of apraxia of speech.
Journal of Communication Disorders, 36, 77-95.
Walker, J. P., & Pelletier, R. (2003, November). Production of linguistic prosody in subjects with right hemisphere damage. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.
Walker, J. P., Pelletier, R., & White, S. (2003, November). Prosodic and lexical semantic influences on syntactic parsing in subjects with right and left hemisphere damage. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.
Walker, J. P., Daigle, T., & Buzzard, M. (2002). Hemispheric specialization in processing prosodic structures: Re-visited. Aphasiology,
16(12), 1155-1172.
Walker, J. P. (2002). Functional outcome: A case for mild head injury. Brain Injury,
16(7), 611-625.
Walker, J. P., Fongemie, K., & Daigle, T. (2001). Prosodic facilitation in the resolution of temporary syntactic ambiguities in subjects with left and right hemisphere damage.
Brain and Language, 78, 169-196.
Walker, J. P. (2000, October). Hemispheric specialization in processing prosodic structures: Re-visited. Paper presented at the Academy of Aphasia Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Walker, J. P. (2000, June). A functional outcome assessment tool for patients with traumatic brain injury. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Williamsburg Conference, Postgraduate Course on Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured Adult and Child, Williamsburg, VA.
Walker, J. P., Fongemie, K., & Daigle, T. (1999, October). Prosodic facilitation and interference in the resolution of temporary syntactic ambiguities in aphasic subjects. Paper presented at the Academy of Aphasia Conference, Venice, Italy.
Walker, J. P. (1997). Adult speech and language disorders. In C. M. Seymour & E. H. Nober (Eds).
Introduction to communication disorders: A cultural/social approach (pp. 185 - 204). Newton, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.
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