St. John’s Speech Professor Linda Carozza to be Featured in Advance For Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

Linda Carozza, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor of Speech at St. John’s University’s Staten Island campus, will be featured in Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, along with her colleagues, Tricia Olea-Santos, MS, CCC-SLP, and Therese Marie Abesamis, BS, SLP, in the November 19 issue.

Dr. Carozza and her associates designed a subjective screening tool called the Communicative Effectiveness and Stress Rating Scale (CEASRS), designed to identify the possible role of psychological stress in communication of patients with aphasia, an acquired communication disorder that impairs a person's ability to process language.

Patients suffering with this neurological impairment experience difficulty in speaking, reading and writing, and often suffer from stress related to the condition. Though still in its early stages, Dr. Carozza, Santos and Abesamis hope the CEASRS can provide health care professionals with an appreciation of psychological factors that may affect the communication skills of those with aphasia. Next....