Faculty

Maria I. Grigos

Assistant Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders

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Maria Grigos is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology 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 studies speech production in typically developing children, as well as those with speech impairments.  The work in her laboratory combines kinematic, acoustic and perceptual analyses to examine speech motor and linguistic processes. Current projects include the study of articulatory control in children with phonological disorders and developmental apraxia of speech, the relationship between increasing phonological complexity and articulatory control, and the impact of therapeutic intervention on speech motor skills. 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

Publications

  • Curriculum Vitae (view)

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

  • E34.0402   Acoustic Phonetics
  • E34.1101   Introduction to Articulation and Phonological Disorders
  • E34.2023   Neurogenic Speech Disorders in Children
  • E34.2022   Craniofacial Anomalies
  • E34.2108   Advanced Phonological Disorders
  • E34.2125   Speech Science: Instrumentation

Research Interests

  • Speech motor control and development
  • Phonological acquisition
  • Motor speech disorders in children
  • Craniofacial anomalies

Selected Recent Presentations

Grigos, M.I. & Reuterskiold, C.  Non-word repetition and speech motor control. Oral presentation at 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. Oral presentation at Research Colloquium at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, October 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 Motor Speech Conference, Monterey, CA, March 2008.

Case, J. & Grigos, M.I.  Lip kinematics in early and late bilingual speaker of Spanish. Poster presentation at the Motor Speech Conference, 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 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 Annual convention, Boston, MA, November 2007.

Awards

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