An interprofessional team showcased research on cognitive communication, brain health, and brain injury last month at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM)Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
Led by Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences (SHS) Assistant Professor Amy Kemp, PhD, CCC-SLP, the Accelerating Research in Cognitive Communication Health (ARCCH) Lab team shared six presentations at the conference.
WSU medical student Angshita Dutta presented the poster “Evaluating the Five-minute Cognitive Test as a Rapid Cognitive Screener: Comparison with Comprehensive Neuropsychological Assessment.”
Computer science doctoral student Negar Haghpanahi presented the poster “Building and Evaluating a Digital Twin for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Predicting Recovery Milestones and Refining Prognosis Through Sequential Updating.”
Standing in for SHS Class of 2026 graduate Hannah Rae Tjelle, Kemp gave the oral presentation “From Screening to Action: Why Individuals with MCI Need More Support to Change Brain Health Behaviors.”
Kemp also presented her own projects, “Discourse-based Markers of Preclinical Cognitive Function: Evidence from ADNI Narrative Speech Data” and “Hidden Injury, Divergent Trajectories: Identifying Undocumented Traumatic Brain Injury in Aging Cohorts and Its Impact on Preclinical Cognitive Decline.”
Finally, ARCCH Lab Research Study Coordinator Sidney Ritter and Research Project Manager Emily Kemp held a symposium on “Integrating Lived Experience into Rehabilitation Research to Promote Salient, Meaningful Outcomes for People with Brain Injury.”
Congratulations to the team for their contributions to better brain health and injury recovery!