Venu Balasubramanian, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Speech-Language Pathology

Profile

I joined the Seton Hall University Speech-Language Pathology program at its inception in 1998. Previously, I taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of South-Western Louisiana at Lafayette, and the University of Wisconsin at River Falls. I am a certified (CCC-SLP) member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and licensed to practice speech-language pathology in New Jersey.

I am an active member of several research organizations, including, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, International Neuropsychological Society, International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, International Fluency Association, and Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET) group. I also regularly present at the annual meetings of the Academy of Aphasia.

My current research interests concern the status of language and cognition in aphasia and traumatic brain injury, model-based treatment of aphasia, prosodic processing in brain damaged adults, neurological and cognitive- aspects of speech production in apraxia of speech, and acquired neurogenic stuttering, cognitive model-based analysis of dyslexias and dysgraphias, and the effects of aging on language and cognition and encourage student participation in my ongoing research projects.

Currently, I mentor student research (masters' and doctoral) in the areas of 1) aphasia,/recovery from aphasia, and 2) phonology-orthography interface in bilinguals and bilingual aphasics. I also currently teach courses in neuroscience, aphasia, traumatic brain injury, and neuromotor disorders of speech in adults.

Education

• Ph. D., State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, 1986. (SLP)
• Ph .D., University of Mysore, India, 1981. (Linguistics)
• M. Sc., University of Mysore, India, 1971. (Speech and Hearing)

Publications and Academic Distinctions

2000 Rotary International Grant for University Teachers

Balasubramanian, V., Cronin, C, & Max, L. (2009). Dysfluency levels during repeated readings, choral readings, and readings with altered auditory feedback in two cases of acquired neurogenic stuttering. Journal of Neurolinguistics (in press).

Balasubramanian, V., & Max, L. (2005). Hemispheric processing of Prosody. In Joseph Syka & Michael M. Merzenich (Eds.), Plasticity and signal representation in auditory system. New York: Springer.

Balasubramanian, V. (2005). Dysgraphia in two forms of conduction aphasia. Brain and Cognition, 57, 8-15.

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