Diana Van Lancker Sidtis

Diana Van Lancker Sidtis

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Professor of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Phone: 212 992 9740
Email: diana.sidtis@nyu.edu

• Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
• Speech-Language Pathology

Professor Diana Van Lancker Sidtis, Ph.D., has degrees from the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago and Brown University. Her predoctoral work was at the University of California at Los Angeles and she was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. She earned her Speech Pathology Certification at California State University in Los Angeles. She has taught at St. Olaf College, UCLA, the University of Minnesota, Carleton College, and Antioch University. Her previous academic position was at the University of Southern California Medical School, Department of Neurology, where she performed clinical service, teaching, and research in speech pathology and neurolinguistics. She was Chief of Audiology and Speech Pathology at the VA Outpatient Clinic in Los Angeles. She is a member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, the International Neuropsychological Society, the Acoustical Society of America, the Academy of Aphasia, and the Society for Neuroscience. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS The role of the right hemisphere in processing emotional and personally relevant stimuli Assessment and rehabilitation of stroke patients using nonliteral language Acoustic cues underlying perception of affective and linguistic prosody Acoustic correlates of motor speech disorders Deep brain stimulation effects on speech in Parkinson's disease Acquisition of nonliteral language by first and second-language speakers Production and comprehension of fixed expressions and proper nouns in stroke patients Dysgraphias: right hemisphere reading and writing function Right hemisphere abilities in communication RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED "Personal relevance and ethnicity in stroke patients as health care delivery issue." Principal Investigator. Rehabilitation Research and Development Department of Veterans Affairs, April 1, 1997-May 30, 1998. "Exploring right hemisphere communicative function: Recognition and production of common and proper nouns. Principal Investigator, CoInvestigator: C. Ohnesorge, Ph.D. NYU Challenge Grant. June, 2000-May,1999. "Speech formulae, idioms, and proverbs: how much of our everday speech is made up of familiar nonliteral expressions?" Principal Investigator. School of Education Challenge Grant. June, 2000-May, 1999. Functional imaging in Parkinson's disease. Funded by the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, July 1, 2001. Co-Principal Investigator: John Sidtis.