Mikael
D.Z. Kimelman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Department Chairperson and Associate Professor
Department of Speech-Language Pathology
Education:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doctoral Dissertation: Effects of stressed context on the auditory comprehension of unstressed targets by adult aphasics (Supervisor: Malcolm R. McNeil).
M.A., University of Florida,
Master's Thesis: The effect of puberty on vocal cord nodules in males (Supervisor: G. Paul Moore).
B.S., California State University, Hayward
Courses Taught:
SLP 101 Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders
SLP 310 Speech Science
SLP 400 Independent Study
SLP 460 Speech-Language Pathology in the Medical Setting
SLP 525 Motor Speech Disorders
SLP 575 Capstone Seminar in Speech-Language Pathology
Areas of Academic Specialty:
Neurologically based communication disorders: aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia-of-speech, TBI
Research Area:
Communication disorders of neurological origin: aphasia, dysarthria, cognitive communication disorders
Auditory information processing in normal and disordered listeners
Prosody: emphasis, stress, intonation
Publications:
McNeil, M.R. & Kimelman, M.D.Z. (2001). Darley and the Nature of Aphasia: The Defining and Classifying Controversies. Aphasiology, 15(3), 221-229.
Garrett, K. & Kimelman, M.D.Z. (2000). Cognitive-linguistic considerations in the application of alternative communication strategies for aphasia. In Beukelman, D., Yorkston, K, & Reichle, J (Eds.) Augmentative communication for Adults with Neurogenic and Neuromuscular Disabilities, Baltimore: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Company.
Kimelman, M.D.Z. (1999). Prosody, linguistic demands, and auditory comprehension in aphasia. Brain & Language, 69, 212-221.
Shaiman, S., Adams, S.G., and Kimelman, M.D.Z. (1997). Velocity profiles of lip protrusion across changes in speaking rate. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 40, 144-158. My contribution was approximately 33% to this publication, including conceptual development of the overall project and protocols, data collection, and manuscript editing.
Shaiman, S., Adams, S.G. & Kimelman, M.D.Z. (1995) . Timing relationships of the upper lip and jaw across changes in speaking rate. Journal of Phonetics, 23, 119-128. My contribution was approximately 33% to this publication, including conceptual development of the overall project and protocols, data collection, and manuscript editing.
Professional Presentations:
Martonik, J.L., English, K. & Kimelman, M.D.Z. Remediation Strategy for Dichotic Listening Deficits. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 2002.
Kimelman, M.D.Z. & Shaiman, S. Relative Acoustic Measures of Narrative Level Emphatic Stress. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, November 2001.
Kimelman, M.D.Z. & Shaiman, S. Intensity patterns of narrative level emphatic stress. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Washington, DC, November 2000.
Kimelman, M.D.Z. & Shaiman, S. Fundamental frequency of narrative level emphatic stress. Presented at the meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention , San Francisco , CA , November 1999, and at a meeting of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Speech, Language, & Hearing Association, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2000.
Kimelman, M.D.Z. Memory load, prosody, and auditory comprehension in aphasia. Paper presented to the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Key West, FL, June 1999.
Garrett, K.L. & Kimelman, M.D.Z. AAC interventions and aphasia: cognitive-linguistic considerations. Seminar presented to the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1999.
Kimelman, M.D.Z. Aphasia, emphatic stress, linguistic demands, and auditory comprehension. Paper presented to the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Big Fork, Montana, June 1997.
Professional Narrative:
Dr. Mikael D.Z. Kimelman is an Associate Professor and the founding Chairperson of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his master's degree from the University of Florida, and his bachelor's degree from the California State University, Hayward . Before coming to Duquesne University , Dr. Kimelman held faculty appointments at the University of Toronto and the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans.
Dr. Kimelman's research focuses on understanding how people process and comprehend the language that they hear. He studies people with aphasia who have auditory comprehension problems. His area of expertise is with neurologically based communication disorders. Dr. Kimelman has been a speech-language pathologist since 1980 and has had extensive clinical and supervisory experience across a variety of settings. In 2004 Dr. Kimelman was nominated as a Pittsburgh Business Times Health Care Hero in the health care educator category.
Phone: 412.396.4269
E-mail: kimelman@duq.edu |
