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Shannon Sheppard, PhD, CCC-SLP
Shannon
Sheppard
PhD, CCC-SLP
Affiliate Instructor
Education:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University of School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
PhD, Language & Communicative Disorders, University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University
BA, Psychology, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Honors & Awards:
Mentee, Lessons for Success Research Workshop, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Training Grant Recipient of the Neurocognitive Approaches to Communication Disorders Training Grant
Recent Publications
Gender Imbalance in Citation Practices in Communication Sciences and Disorders Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2025 Mar 10) Am J Speech Lang Pathol 34(2): 571-591 Meier EL, Kajfez S, Zaman C, Haskell G, Ugent L, Wei G, Sheppard SM
Augmenting Verb-Naming Therapy With Neuromodulation Decelerates Language Loss in Primary Progressive Aphasia. (2025 Jan 7) Am J Speech Lang Pathol 34(1): 155-173 Sheppard SM, Goldberg EB, Sebastian R, Vitti E, Ruch K, Meier EL, Hillis AE
Cerebellar tDCS Enhances Functional Communication Skills in Chronic Aphasia. (2024) Aphasiology 38(12): 1895-1915 Kim JH, Cust S, Lammers B, Sheppard SM, Keator LM, Tippett DC, Hillis AE, Sebastian R
Resting state correlates of picture description informativeness in left vs. right hemisphere chronic stroke. (2023) Front Neurol 14(): 1288801 Meier EL, Sheppard SM, Sebastian R, Berube S, Goldberg EB, Shea J, Stein CM, Hillis AE
Varied performance of picture description task as a screening tool across MCI subtypes. (2023 Mar) PLOS Digit Health 2(3): e0000197 Mefford JA, Zhao Z, Heilier L, Xu M, Zhou G, Mace R, Sloane KL, Sheppard SM, Glenn S