Chaleece W. Sandberg

• Center for Language Science
• Penn State Neuroscience Institute
• Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition
• Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
• Social Science Research Institute
• Center for Healthy Aging
• Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center

Finding ways of optimizing language therapy for adult language disorders, with a primary interest in aphasia. Specifically, exploring what neuroplastic processes are taking place during successful therapy and how to enhance these processes. Additionally, exploring how cortical reorganization due to aging affects the way we interpret the cortical reorganization that results from language therapy.

Language and Language Disabilities Across the Lifespan

A Bio-Physiologically Integrated Approach to Studying Mechanisms of Swallow and Speech in Down Syndrome. Wilkinson, K. M. (PI), Madhavan, A., Etter, N., Lee, J., Olmstead, A., Miller, C. A., Sandberg, C., & Williams, D. (2023-2028).  National Institutes of Health Project INCLUDE.

This grant examines the mechanisms underlying speech and swallow function in individuals with Down syndrome. We examine the relation of structural and functional characteristics associated with the genetic underpinnings of Down syndrome (trisomy 21) to the functional production of speech and of swallow.  The team includes experts from across the CSD department in areas of clinical swallow measurement, oral somatosensation, speech production, speech perception, language, and brain imaging. 

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