• Additional Titles:Director, Center for Brain Recovery
    Director, Aphasia Research Laboratory
    Research Director, Aphasia Resource Center
  • Website or Lab: BU Center for Brain Recovery
  • Phone:617-358-5478

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests

  • Bilingual aphasia
  • Aphasia rehabilitation
  • Functional neuroimaging
  • Language recovery
  • Impairments in naming, reading, writing

Kiran is the co-founder of Constant Therapy Health.

Courses Taught

  • SAR 756 Aphasia

Selected Grant Activity

Pending NIH/NIDCD 1R01DC015961-01A1 Functional reorganization of the language and domain-general multiple demand systems in aphasia. MPI: Swathi Kiran ($3,594,247).
2018-2020 NIH/ NIBIB R01EB026998 Next-generation optical brain functional imaging platform (PI: Qianqian Fang; Role: subcontract)
2018-2023 NIH/NIDCD R13 1R13DC017375-01, Academy of Aphasia Research and Training Symposium. PI: Swathi Kiran ($192,618)
2016-2021 NIH/NIDCD 1U01DC014922. Predicting rehabilitation outcomes in bilingual aphasia using computational modeling. MPI: Swathi Kiran ($3,269,847)
2015-2017 ASHA Office of Multicultural Affairs. Projects on multicultural activities Development of a Free Online Interactive Naming Therapy for Bilingual Aphasia. PIs: Chaleece Sandberg, Teresa Gray, Swathi Kiran
2013-2018 NIDCD/NIH 1P50DC012283-01 Neurobiology of language recovery in aphasia, natural and treatment induced recovery. PI: Cynthia Thompson, ($7,500,000) Sub Project PIs Swathi Kiran (BU: $791,855)
2009-2015 NIDCD, R21/R33. 1R21DC010461-01.Theoretically based treatment for sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia ($1,615,519), PD/PI Swathi Kiran
2012-2013 Coulter Foundation Translational Award. Validation of an iPAD therapy for individuals with post-stroke aphasia. ($124,000) PI: Swathi Kiran, Cara Stepp.
2011-2013 NIDCD/NIH 1K18DC011517-01 Mentored Clinical Development Grant. Application of Multimodal Imaging Techniques to Examine Language Recovery in Post Stroke Aphasia ($253,478) PI: Swathi Kiran
2008-2011 ASHA foundation Clinical Research Grant. Effect of a semantic based naming treatment on crosslinguistic generalization in bilingual patients with aphasia. ($50,000). PI: Swathi Kiran
2009-2012 NIH/NIDCD 1R21DC009446. Computational and Behavioral Evidence for Bilingual Aphasia Rehabilitation. ($275,000). PIs: Swathi Kiran, Risto Miikkulainen

Consulting and Professional Activities

2021

Section Editor, Cortex

2020

Chair, Board of Governors, Academy of Aphasia

2020

Section Editor, Neuropsychologia

2020

Board Member, National Aphasia Association

2019

Standing Member, NIH LCOM panel

2019

Committee Member, ASHA Lessons for Success Conference

2019

Associate Editor, Brain and Language

2018

Board of Governors, Academy of Aphasia 

2011-Present Member, Organizing Committee, NIDCD R13 DC006295: Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology
2011-Present Editor, AJSLP Clinical Aphasiology Conference Special Issue
2010- Present Public outreach officer, Academy of Aphasia
2010-2011 Associate Editor: Language, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research2010-2011
2011-2016 Standing Member, NIH/NIDCD CDRC review panel
2010- present Reviewer, American Heart Association, Brain and Clinical Sciences Division
2009-2011 Committee Member, Research & Scientific Affairs, American Speech Language and Hearing Association
2009-2011 Faculty Mentor, Fourth Annual ‘Lessons for Success: Developing the Emerging Scientist.’ American Speech Language and Hearing Association.
2009-2011 Committee Member, Research And Scientific Affairs, American Speech Language and Hearing Association
2009 Reviewer, Human Brain Mapping Conference
2008 Reviewer, Cognitive Science Society (2008)
2007 Program Committee, Clinical Aphasiology Conference (2008)
2006 Reviewer, American Speech Language and Hearing Foundation: New Investigator and New Century Scholars Grant Program
2006 Program Committee, Adult Language Disorders, ASHA Convention
2006 Guest Editor, American Speech Language and Hearing Association: Special Interest Division 2: Perspectives
2005 Program Committee, Adult Language Disorders, ASHA Convention

Awards and Honors

2013 Named Fellow of the American American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
2008 Best Research Paper Award, College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
2008 Reddick Award, University of Texas at Austin
2007 Mentor, Advancement of Academic and Research Career Award (AARC), American Speech Language and Hearing Association, Mentee: Sharon Antonucci.
2005 Advancement of Academic and Research Career Award (AARC), American Speech Language and Hearing Association.

Licensing and Certification

2001-present Licensed Member, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association

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