Faculty and Staff Profiles

• PhD Communicative Disorders - University at Buffalo - 2016
• MA Communicative Disorders - SUNY Geneseo - 2010
• BS Communicative Disorders - SUNY Geneseo - 2008

• Director of Graduate Studies, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders - University of Memphis - 2023-Present
• Tenured, Associate Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders - University of Memphis - 2023 - Present
• Assistant Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders - University of Memphis - 2017 - 2023
• Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology - Medical University of South Carolina / University of South Carolina - 2016 - 2017

• Research Mentoring Pathways Program - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) - 2015
• Fall Conference Scholarship - Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) - 2011
• Outstanding Achievement in Research - CDSc Department at State University College at Geneseo, New York - 2009
• C. Agnes Rigney Honor Clinician of the Year - CDSc Department at State University College at Geneseo - 2008

• Developmental and Acquired Motor Speech Disorders - University of Memphis
• Language Disorders in Adults - University of Memphis
• Neurological Bases of Communication - University of Memphis
• Articulation and Phonological Disorders - University of Memphis

• New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship - American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation - $10,000.00 - 2014
• Faculty Research Grant - School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis - $6,500.00 - 2023
• Faculty Research Grant - School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis - $6,500.00 - 2018

• He, D., Feenaughty, L., & Wan, Q. (2023). Global Acoustic Speech Temporal Characteristics for Mandarin Speakers With Parkinson's Disease During Syllable Repetition and Passage Reading. American journal of speech-language pathology, 32(5), 2232-2244. 

• Feenaughty, L. (2023). Social network characteristics and correlations with cognitive, psychosocial, and speech function and communication participation for adults with multiple sclerosis: A pilot study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00233
• Feenaughty, L. (2022). Linguistic performance during monologues and correlates of neuropsychological function for adults with multiple sclerosis. Aphasiology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2022.2099527
• Feenaughty, L. (2021). Dual-task speech performance in multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 53(8). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2021.103077
• Feenaughty, L., Basilakos, A., Bonilha, L., & Fridriksson, J. (2021). Speech timing changes accompany speech entrainment in aphasia. Journal of Communication Disorders, 90, 106090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106090
• Feenaughty, L., Guo, L. Y., Weinstock-Guttman, B., Ray, M., Benedict, R., & Tjaden, K. (2020). Impact of Cognitive Impairment and Dysarthria on Spoken Language in Multiple Sclerosis. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 27(5), 450-460. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617720001113
• Feenaughty, L., Tjaden, K., Weinstock-Guttman, B., & Benedict, R. H. (2018). Separate and combined influence of cognitive impairment and dysarthria on functional communication in multiple sclerosis. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(3), 1051-1065.
• Feenaughty, L., Basilakos, A., Bonilha, L., den Ouden, D., Rorden, C., Stark, B. & Fridriksson, J. (2017). Non-fluent speech following stroke is caused by impaired efference copy. Cognitive Neuropsychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2017.1394834.
• Marebwa, B., Feenaughty, L., Fridriksson, J., Rorden, C., Yourganov, G. & Bonilha, L. (2017). Chronic post-stroke aphasia severity is determined by fragmentation of residual white matter networks. Scientific Reports.
• Basilakos, A., Yourganov, G., den Ouden, D., Fogerty, D., Rorden, C., Feenaughty, L. & Fridriksson, J. (2017). A multivariate analytic approach to the differential diagnosis of apraxia of speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Doi10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-16-0443.
• Feenaughty, L., Tjaden, K., & Sussman, J. (2014). Relationship between acoustic measures and judgments of intelligibility in Parkinson’s disease: A within-speaker approach. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 1-22. Doi10.3109/02699206.2014.921839
• Feenaughty, L., Tjaden, K., Benedict, R.H.B., & Weinstock-Guttman, B. (2013). Speech and pause characteristics in Multiple Sclerosis: A preliminary study of speakers with high and low neuropsychological test performance. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 27, 134 – 151.
• Rodgers, J.D., Tjaden, K., Feenaughty, L., Weinstock-Guttman, B., & Benedict, R.H. (2012). Influence of cognitive function on speech and articulation rate in Multiple Sclerosis. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1-8. Doi10.1017/s1355617712001166
• Kroecker, J., Lyle, K., Allen, K., Filippini, E., Galvin, M., Johnson, M., Kanuck, A., Loccisano, S., Manoni, C., Nieto, J., Feenaughty, L., Sligar, C., Starowicz, S., Wind, K., Young, S., and Owens, R. (2010). Effects of Student Training on Child Language Sample Quality. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 36.

• Feenaughty, L. (2023). Dual-task speech performance in multiple sclerosis. Invited research talk presented at the Memphis Neuroscience Symposium. Memphis, TN.
• *Crenshaw, K., Paek, E. & Feenaughty, L. (2023). Impact of elicitation task on discourse production in mild Alzheimer's disease. Thesis research presented at the 52nd Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Atlantic City, New Jersey.
• Ha, K., Ogbaselase, F., Hardin, K., Goodman, P., & Feenaughty, L. (2023). Measuring the life impact of aphasia on the lives of family members of persons with aphasia. Technical research presented at the 53rd Annual Mid-South conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
• Goodman, P., Ha, K., Hardin, K., Ogbaselase, F. & Feenaughty, L. (2023). Impact of intensive group therapy on communicative quality of life and communication participation for persons with aphasia. Technical research presented at the 53rd Annual Mid-South conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
• *Crenshaw, K. & Feenaughty, L. (2022). Cognition and language in Alzheimer's disease. Thesis research presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Burks, B., Wright, H., Hlasney, E. & Feenaughty, L. (2022). Relationship between psychosocial status and spoken-language characteristics in multiple sclerosis. Technical research presented at the 52nd Annual Mid-South conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
• Crenshaw, K. & Feenaughty, L. (2022). Cognition and language in Alzheimer's disease. Thesis research presented at the 52nd Annual Mid-South conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
• *Feenaughty, L. (2022). Self-reported social networks for persons with mild dysarthria: A pilot study. Technical research presented virtually at the Twenty-First Biennial Conference on Motor Speech. Charleston, SC.
• *Feenaughty, L. & Ingvalson, E. (2021). Examining the role of cognition in the perception and production of motor speech disorders. Invited virtual platform seminar presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Washington, D.C.
• *Feenaughty, L. & Ingvalson, E. (2020, November). Cognition: A source of detours in the perception and production of motor speech disorders. Invited platform seminar (#20031) at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. San Diego, California (Convention Cancelled).
• *Rogers, J. & Feenaughty, L. (2020). Effects of lexical familiarity and neuropsychological status on articulation duration in multiple sclerosis. Technical research poster presented at the Biennial Conference on Motor Speech. Santa Barbara, CA.
• *Feenaughty, L. (2020). Dual-task speech performance in multiple sclerosis. Technical research presented at the Biennial Conference on Motor Speech. Santa Barbara, CA.
• *Feenaughty, L., McLaughlin, M., & Mickelson, A. (2019). Effect of a concurrent speech and cognitive-linguistic task on global speech timing in multiple sclerosis. Technical research presented at the Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium. Boston, MA.
• *Feenaughty, L. (2019). Acoustic measures of paraspeech in speakers with multiple sclerosis: A study of neuropsychological status and its role in diadochokinesis. Technical research presented at the 177th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Louisville, Kentucky.
• *McLaughlin, M. & Feenaughty, L. (2019). F2 range measures in mild dysarthria and healthy talkers. Technical research presented at the 177th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Louisville, Kentucky.
• Feenaughty, L. (2019). Exploring the effects of concurrent tasks on spoken-language in multiple sclerosis. Technical research presented at the 49th Annual Mid-South conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
• Reaves, W. & Feenaughty, L. (2019). Memory and word finding in multiple sclerosis. Technical research presented at the 49th Annual Mid-South conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
• *Feenaughty, L., Schreiber, V., & Stroderd, L. (2018). Profile of language characteristics obtained from spontaneous speech in multiple sclerosis. Research presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Boston, Massachusetts.
• Schreiber, V., Feenaughty, L., & Stroderd, L. (2018). Cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis impacts lexical variation: Evidence from a spontaneous narrative. Research presented at the Graduate Research Forum, University of Memphis. Memphis, Tennessee.
• *Rogers, J., Jarmulowicz, L., Feenaughty, L., & Buder, E. (2018). Stress shift, phonological awareness, and segmental accuracy in productions of derived real and pseudo words. Research presented at the Biennial Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Lisbon, Portugal.
• *Feenaughty, L. (2018). Predictors of speech severity and sentence intelligibility for speakers with multiple sclerosis. Research presented orally at the Biennial Conference on Motor Speech. Savannah, Georgia.
• *Feenaughty, L. (2017). I've got a feeling: A case of multiple sclerosis. Clinical case presented orally at the Clinical Case Conference in Speech-language Pathology at the 25th Annual Tennessee Association of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists Conference. Knoxville, Tennessee.
• *Feenaughty, L., Basilakos, A., Bonilha, L. & Fridriksson, J. (2017). Speech and pause characteristics in spontaneous speech and during speech entrainment. Technical research presented orally at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Los Angeles, California.
• *Feenaughty, L., Weinstock-Guttman, B. & Benedict, R.H.B. (2017). Comorbid dysarthria and neuropsychological deficits impact spoken language in multiple sclerosis. Technical research presented orally at the 25th Annual Tennessee Association of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists Conference. Knoxville, Tennessee.
• *Feenaughty, L., Delgaizo, J., Basilakos, A., Fridriksson, J., Rorden, C. & Bonilha, L. (2016). Predicting speech entrainment success using white matter connectivity. Poster presented at the annual conference of Neurobiology of Language. London, England.
• *Feenaughty, L., Basilakos, A., Bonilha, L., Rorden, C., Stark, B. & Fridriksson, J. (2016). Lesion predictors of speech fluency in aphasia. Poster presented at the annual conference of Neurobiology of Language. London, England.
• *Marebwa, B., Feenaughty, L., Fridriksson, J., Rorden, C., Yourganov, G. & Bonilha, L. (2016). Fragmentation of structural brain networks is associated with more severe post-stroke aphasia. Poster presented at the annual conference of Neurobiology of Language. London, England.
• *Basilakos, A., Bonilha, L., Yourganov, G., Rorden, C., Feenaughty, L., den Ouden, D., Fogerty, D. & Fridriksson, J. (2016). Using acoustic measures to refine the differential diagnosis of apraxia of speech: a behavioral and multimodality neuroimaging study. Poster presented at the annual conference of Neurobiology of Language. London, England.
• *Basilakos, A., Fridriksson, J., Rorden, C., Yourganov, G., Feenaughty, L., & Bonilha, L. (2016). Classification of apraxia of speech using objective acoustic measures. Poster presented at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Charlottesville, Virginia.
• *Feenaughty, L., Benedict, R.H.B., Guo, L., & Tjaden, K. (2016). Impact of cognitive function and dysarthria on spoken language and perception in multiple sclerosis. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference on Motor Speech. Newport Beach, California.
• *Feenaughty, L., Tjaden, K., Weinstock-Guttman, B., & Benedict, R. (2015). Comparison of sentence intelligibility scores, scaled speech severity, and communication participation in multiple sclerosis. Technical research presented orally at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Denver, Colorado.
• *Feenaughty, L., Tjaden, K., & Sussman, J. (2014). Relationship between acoustic measures and intelligibility in Parkinson’s disease: A within-speaker analysis. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference on Motor Speech. Sarasota, Florida.
• *Feenaughty, L., Tjaden, K., Hoogs. M., Weinstock-Guttman, B., & Benedict, R. (2012). Speech hesitations and neuropsychological function in Multiple Sclerosis. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference on Motor Speech. Santa Rosa, California.
• *Feenaughty, L., Tjaden, K., Benedict, R.H.B., & Weinstock-Guttman, B. (2011). Speech and pause characteristics in adults with Multiple Sclerosis: Comparison of speakers with high and low neuropsychological test performance. Poster presented at 6th International Conference on Speech Motor Control. Groningen, Netherlands.