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Maya L. Henry is the Associate Dean for Research and an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the director of the Aphasia Research and Treatment Lab. Dr. Henry earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and completed her M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Tucson. After completing an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California's Memory Aging Center, she joined the faculty in the Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences in 2014. Her clinical research interests focus on the nature and treatment of aphasia caused by stroke and neurodegenerative diseases. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, her research explores the cognitive and neural bases of spoken and written language rehabilitation as well as language impairments associated with primary progressive aphasia. Dr. Henry has published her research in various journals including Brain, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cortex, and she has presented her findings at national and international conferences.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Teaching and research in speech, language, and hearing sciences, focusing on aphasia and neurodegenerative diseases.
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