Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Maria I. Grigos

Associate Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Maria I. Grigos

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Maria Grigos is an Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University. Her scholarly work focuses on the development of speech motor control in children, with a specific emphasis on motor and language interactions. Dr. Grigos directs the Motor Speech Laboratory at New York University. Work in the lab combines kinematic, acoustic and perceptual analyses to examine speech motor and linguistic processes in children. Current projects include the study of articulatory control in children with phonological disorders and childhood apraxia of speech, the relationship between increasing phonological complexity and articulatory control, and the impact of therapeutic intervention on speech motor skills. Research in the Motor Speech Laboratory is funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD).  Dr. Grigos holds ASHA clinical certification and is licensed in speech-language pathology in New York State.


Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. Teachers College, Columbia University 2002
  • MA Teachers College, Columbia University 1993
  • BS New York University 1991

Research Interests

  • Speech motor development
  • Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
  • Development and disorders of articulation and phonology
  • Craniofacial anomalies

Publications

  • Grigos, M.I. & Patel, R. (2010). Acquisition of articulatory control for sentential focus in children. Journal of Phonetics, 38, 706-715.
  • Grigos, M.I., Hayden, D. & Eigen, J. (2010). Perceptual and articulatory changes in speech production following PROMPT treatment. Journal of Medical Speech Language Pathology, 18, 46-53.
  • Grigos, M.I. & Kolenda, N. (2010). The relationship between articulatory control and improved phonemic accuracy in childhood apraxia of speech: a longitudinal case study. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 24, 17-40.
  • Grigos, M.I. (2009). Changes in articulator movement variability during phonemic development: a longitudinal study. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 52, 164-177.
  • Grigos, M.I. & Patel, R. (2007). Articulator movement associated with the development of prosodic control in children. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 50, 1-18.
  • Patel, R. & Grigos, M.I. (2006). Acoustic characterization of the question-statement contrast in 4, 7 and 11 year old children. Speech Communication, 48, 1308-1318.
  • Grigos, M.I., Saxman, J.H. & Gordon, A.M. (2005). Speech motor development during acquisition of the voicing contrast. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 48, 739-752.

Grants

R03 DC009079-01                                                                              2008-2011

NIDCD (National Institute of Health)                                       

   Title: “Articulator movement in developmental apraxia of speech”

   Role: PI        

 

Summer Research Development Award                                                May 2006

   New York University

   Title:  “Articulator movement in developmental apraxia of speech”      

   Role: PI

 

Steinhardt Research Challenge Grant                                                     June 2004

New York University

   Title: “Lip and jaw movement in children with phonological impairments”

   Role: PI

  

Dean’s Grant for Student Research                                                       April 2000

   Teachers College, Columbia University

   Support for Dissertation

Courses

  • CSCD-UE 0402 - Acoustic Phonetics
  • CSCD-UE 1101 - Introduction to Articulation and Phonological Disorders
  • CSCD-GE 2023 - Neurogenic Speech Disorders in Children
  • CSCD-GE 2022 - Craniofacial Anomalies
  • CSCD-GE 2108 - Advanced Phonological Disorders
  • CSCD-GE 2125 - Speech Science: Instrumentation

Selected Recent Presentations

Grigos, M.I. Articulator Movement Variability in Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Oral presentation at the American Speech Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 2010.

Grigos, M.I. , Hayden, D. & Eigen, J. Changes in articulatory control over a period of PROMPT treatment, Oral presentation at the American Speech Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 2010.

Klein, H.B. & Grigos, M.I. Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Consonantal and Vocalic 'r' Productions. Oral presentation at the 28TH International IALP (International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics) Congress, Athens, Greece, August 2010.

Grigos, M.I., Hyman, L. & Hon, S.  The relationship between articulator movement and error consistency in childhood apraxia of speech. Oral presentation at the International Conference on Motor Speech, Savannah, GA, March 2010.

Grigos, M.I. , Hayden, D. & Eigen, J. Perceptual and articulatory changes in speech production following PROMPT treatment. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Motor Speech, Savannah, GA, March 2010.

Grigos, M.I. Articulator movement in children with speech impairments. Invited oral presentation at the PROMPT Training Camp, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, March 2010.

Grigos, M.I. Articulator movement variability in children with impaired speech production skills. Invited oral presentation in the Research Colloquium at Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, December 2009.

Grigos, M.I. & Reuterskiöld, C.  Developmental changes in cognitive processing, phonological complexity and articulator movement. Poster presentation at the American Speech Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2009.

Klein, H.B. & Davidson, L. & Grigos, M.I. Relationship between perception & ultrasound measurement of developing /r.  Poster presentation at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2009.

Grigos, M.I. The development of articulatory control in childhood apraxia of speech. Invited oral presentation at the Research Colloquium at Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, June 2009.

Klein, H. Davidson, L. & Grigos, M.I. Relationship between perceptual and ultrasound measurements of /r/ development in children with phonological delay. Poster presentation at the Child Phonology Conference,  Austin TX, June 2009.

Grigos, M.I. & Reuterskiöld, C.  Non-word repetition and speech motor control. Invited oral presentation in the Research Colloquium in the Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology at New York University, New York, NY, December 2008.

Grigos, M.I. The relationship between articulatory control and linguistic development in children. Invited oral presentation Research Colloquium at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, October 2008.

Reuterskiöld, C.& Grigos, M.I. Word and non-word repetition and speech motor control in children. Poster presentation at the Child Language Symposium, Madison, WI, June 2008.

Grigos, M.I., Reuterskiold, C. & Erwin, N.  The input-output relationship: Understanding the relationship between speech motor control and phonological memory. Oral presentation at the Conference on Motor Speech, Monterey, CA, March 2008.

Case, J. & Grigos, M.I.  Lip kinematics in early and late bilingual speaker of Spanish. Poster presentation at the Conference on Motor Speech, Monterey, CA, March 2008.

Grigos, M.I. & Kolenda, N. Jaw movement in children with developmental apraxia and phonological impairment. Poster presentation at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual convention, Boston, MA, November 2007.

Case, J. & Grigos, M.I.  Articulator movement of Spanish-English bilinguals in the production of /p/.  Poster presentation at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual convention, Boston, MA, November 2007.

Awards

  • 2006 : Steinhardt Summer Grant Development Award
  • 2004 : Steinhardt Research Challenge Fund