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Mikyong Kim


Mikyong Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders. She earned her Ph.D. in Speech-Language Pathology from Northwestern University and has several published articles and presentations to her credit.

In addition to teaching courses at URI, Dr. Kim is involved in a number of on-going research projects. She has been conducting individualized verb naming treatment studies and reading treatment studies with individuals with aphasia. She is also interested in the quality of life issues involving individuals with aphasia and their family members. Dr. Kim has been running a weekly Aphasia Book Club with the help of graduate student clinicians as an outreach program since Spring of 2006. Please contact her (mkim@uri.edu) if you are interested in being involved in her research or outreach activities.

Courses Taught:
  • CMD 377 Functional Neuroanatomy
  • CMD 492 Special Problems
  • CMD 582 Motor Speech Disorders
  • CMD 585 Language Disorders in Adults
  • CMD 598 Special Problems

Recent Publications:
Kim. M., Adingono, M. F., & Revoir, J. S. (2007). Argument structure enhanced verb naming treatment: Two case studies. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 34, 24-36.

Kim, M., & Beaudoin-Parsons, D. (2007). Training phonological reading in deep alexia: does it improve reading words with low imageability? Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 21 (5), 321-351.

Kim, M., & Russo, S. (in press). Multiple Oral Rereading (MOR) treatment: Who is it for? Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders.

Kim, M. (in press). Comprehension. In L. L. LaPointe (Ed.), Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Language Disorders, 4th Edition. New York: Thieme.

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome to spring semester, 2012!

Keep watching for an announcement about our first meeting of our local chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NSSLHA) in 2012. Our first meeting of the academic year was held Tuesday, September 20th in the Galanti Lounge of the Carothers Library and was attended by over 100 undergraduate and graduate students! We greatly appreciated the participation of members of the Rhode Island Speech and Hearing Association's board who facilitated one of our discussion sections. At our upcoming meeting we will be voting on new by-laws and learning about plans for the spring semester.

 

For those of you who attended the talk given by Dr. Lynne E. Hewitt, Bowling Green State University, titled "Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Post-secondary Education" on Monday, October 17th, here is a URL that will take you to Dr. Hewitt's web site. Copy and paste the address to your browser then look for the highlighted link to her presentation on her page if you want to print yourself a copy of her slides: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/cdis/page36445.html.

 

Check out our updated table of graduate student student outcomes: PRAXIS examination, graduation, and employment rates by linking to:

Why CMD at URI? - Communicative Disorders - University of Rhode Island

 

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