Sharon Antonucci, PhD, MS, CCC-SLP
Associate Professor Clinical Scholar
Director, MossRehab Aphasia Center
Contact Information
Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
50 Township Line Road
Elkins Park, PA 19027
Associate Professor Clinical Scholar
Director, MossRehab Aphasia Center
Research & Clinical Interests
Dr. Antonucci is a clinical researcher and speech-language pathologist whose work focuses on aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation. Over the course of her career, she has pursued several lines of research. Her work, grounded in cognitive neuropsychology, investigates relationships between lexical retrieval and semantic processing, and the neuroanatomical substrates thereof, as well as lexical retrieval impairments in those with aphasia due to stroke and theoretically-motivated treatments thereof, particularly in the context of functional communication during connected speech. Her work has expanded to include animal-assisted treatment research founded within the perspective of the life participation approach to aphasia.
Education
PhD, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - 2005
MS, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY, - 1999
Publications
- Animal-Assisted Intervention in Speech-Language Pathology: Practical, Clinical, and Theoretical Considerations
- Verbal description of concrete objects: A method for assessing semantic circumlocution in persons with aphasia
- What matters in semantic feature processing for persons with stroke-aphasia: Evidence from an auditory concept-feature verification task
- Lexicality effects in word and nonword recall of semantic dementia and progressive nonfluent aphasia
- Modulating the focus of attention for spoken words at encoding affects frontoparietal activation for incidental verbal memory
Certifications
- American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) Certificate of Clinical Competence
- Licensed speech-language pathologist: Pennsylvania
- Certified Animal-Assisted Intervention Specialist, Association of Animal-Assisted Intervention Specialists
Awards
- 2019 - Tavistock Trust for Aphasia Distinguished Scholar Award
- 2009 - ASHA Lessons for Success Conference Fellow
- 2008 - Steinhardt Challenge Summer Grant Development Award
- 2008 - Steinhardt Fellowship for Doctoral Students (awarded, declined by student)
- 2007 - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Advancing Academic Research Careers Award (AARC)
- 2004-2005 - State of Arizona Optical Sciences Imaging Fellowship
- 2004 - University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant
- 2003 - Student Fellow, National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Conference Grant (Clinical Aphasiology Convention, May 2003)
- 2002 - American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Graduate Student Scholarship
- 1998-1999 - Speech-Language Pathology Traineeship (Competitive), Veterans Affairs Medical Center East Orange, NJ
- 1997 - Rosemary Park Fellowship for Teaching
- 1997 - Connecticut College Italian Department Prize