Lindsey Foo

Contact

lindsey.foo@gmail.com

Education

M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology, St. John’s University (2017)

B.S. in Speech-Language Pathology, University of Texas at Austin (2015)

Credentials

Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP)
Speech-language pathologist state licensure in Massachusetts 

Research Interests

My current focus is the rehabilitation of cognitive-linguistic skills following traumatic brain injury and stroke in young adults. I am also interested in the nature and treatment of aphasia and neurodegenerative disease with a special focus on bilingual aphasia.

Current Projects

Intensive Cognitive Communication Rehabilitation 

Computational Modeling of Bilingual Aphasia Rehabilitation

WAB-R Validation

Posters and Publications

Foo, L., Gilmore, N. & Kiran, S. (2019, submitted). Reframing the Continuum of Care for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. 2019 American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention. Boston, MA, USA.

Gilmore, N.,Foo, L.,  & Kiran, S. (poster presentation – 2019). Academically-focused cognitive rehabilitation supports cognitive-linguistic recovery in college-bound adults with brain injury. The 2019 Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Whitefish, Montana, USA.  Foo, L.,  & Kiran, S. (poster presentation – 2019). Academically-focused cognitive rehabilitation supports cognitive-linguistic recovery in college-bound adults with brain injury. The 2019 Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Whitefish, Montana, USA.  Foo, L.,  & Kiran, S. (poster presentation – 2019). Academically-focused cognitive rehabilitation supports cognitive-linguistic recovery in college-bound adults with brain injury. The 2019 Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Whitefish, Montana, USA.  

Gilmore, N., Foo, L, & Kiran, S. (oral presentation – 2019). A Ramp to College: Intensive Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire. 36th Annual Brain Injury & Stroke Conference. Concord, NH, USA.  

Foo, L., Gilmore, N., & Kiran, S. (oral presentation – 2019)Reshaping Cognitive-Linguistic Rehabilitation for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). 2019 MIT Braintrust Symposium. Boston, MA.

Foo, L., Gilmore, N., & Kiran, S. (oral presentation – 2018) Intensive-Cognitive Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). 2018 American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention. Boston, MA.

Gilmore, N., Foo, L., & Kiran, S. (oral presentation – 2018) Successful Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts 27th Annual Brain Injury Conference. Marlborough, MA.

Gilmore, N., Foo, L, & Kiran, S. (oral presentation – 2018) Filling the Gap: Cognitive Rehab for College-Bound Young Adults with Brain Injury. Brain Injury Association of Vermont Annual Brain Injury Conference. Waterbury, VT.

Gilmore, N., Foo, L, & Kiran, S. (poster presentation – 2018) Intensive Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation for College-bound Young Adults with Brain Injury. The 2018 International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, Aveiro, Portugal.

Gilmore, N., Foo, L., & Kiran, S. (oral presentation – 2018). Effects of Intensive Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation in Young Adults With Acquired Brain Injury. 4th Annual Interagency Conference on Traumatic Brain Injury. Washington, DC.

Foo, L., Obler, L., Gorno-Tempini, M., Saloner, R., & Vonk, J.M. (poster presentation – 2017). Independent effects of lexical frequency and age of acquisition on lexical processing in healthy older adults. 2017 CUNY Student Research Day. NY, NY.  

Foo, L., Aviles-Sosa, T., Chann, C., Gross, H., & Henriquez, K. (oral presentation – 2017) Cancer as it relates to swallowing and communication. 2017 Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Departmental In-service. NY, NY.

Foo, L., Sebro-Calderon, T, & Garcia, T. (oral presentation – 2017). Communication and swallowing intervention for head and neck cancer. 2017 Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Cancer Rehab Symposium. NY, NY.

Foo, L., & Centeno, J. (poster presentation – 2017). Language Attrition in speakers of English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese.  2017 St. John’s University Research Day. NY, NY.

Bedore, L., Briseño, J., Foo, L., & Peña, E. (poster presentation – 2014). Influences of language knowledge and memory on sentence repetition. 2014 Texas Speech and Hearing Association Convention. Houston, TX. 

Research Experience

  • Boston University Aphasia Research Laboratory – Boston, MA
    • Research Speech-Language Pathologist – With Swathi Kiran PhD                                                                                 August 2017 – May 2019
  • CUNY Graduate Center Neurolinguistics Laboratory – New York, NY
    • Graduate Research Assistant – With Loraine K. Obler PhD                                                                                           January 2016 – June 2017
  • Cross-Language Aphasia Research – Independent Study – New York, NY
    • Student Research Project – Jose G. Centeno PhD                                                                                                          September 2015 – June 2017
  • Aphasia Treatment Research – Adult Speech Entrainment Project – Austin, TX
    • Undergraduate Research Assistant – With Maya Henry PhD                                                                                   September 2014 – May 2015