Nancy Helm-Estabrooks Explained

Nancy Helm-Estabrooks
Birth Name:Nancy Helm
Alma Mater:Boston University
Thesis Title:The gestural behavior of aphasic patients during confrontation naming
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:1980

Nancy Helm-Estabrooks is an emeritus professor at Western Carolina University where she was the first Brewer Smith Distinguished Professor. She is known for her work on persons with aphasia and acquired cognitive-communication disorders.

Education and career

Helm-Estabrooks received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Hearing Therapy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Master of Education in Speech-Language Pathology at Northeastern University, and her Doctor of Science degree at Boston University.[1]

Helms-Estabrooks has worked at the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center and Boston University School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Arizona. As of 2022, she is a professor emerita and the former Brewer-Smith Distinguished Chair in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at Western Carolina University.

Helms-Estabrooks was a co-founder of Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS),[2] and served as president from 2003 until 2004.[3]

Academic work

Helm-Estabrooks is a researcher and speech-language pathologist (SLP) specializing in the design and application of widely used diagnostic. She developed, in collaboration with behavioral neurologist Martin Albert and Robert Sparks, a structured rehabilitation program for a type of nonfluent aphasia utilizing intoned phrases to facilitate speech and language production. This program became known as Melodic Intonation Therapy.[4] [5] She subsequently designed and published programs and materials for treating aphasia symptoms and cognitive impairments.[6] [7]

Awards and honors

Helm-Estabrooks received Honors of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) in 2000,[8] and is a 2004 fellow of ASHA.[9] In 2005 she received Honors of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences.[10] She received the Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award from the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation in 2012,[11] and the Edith F. Kaplan Award from the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society.[12]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Western Carolina University . 2022-09-09 . Nancy Helm-Estabrooks . en.
  2. Web site: June 17, 2013 . Spotlight on a member Nancy Helm-Estabrook, Ph.D. . pages 11-13
  3. Web site: Reyes . Erin . ANCDS Past Presidents . 2022-09-12 . www.ancds.org . en-us.
  4. Sparks . Robert . Helm . Nancy . Albert . Martin . 1974-12-01 . Aphasia Rehabilitation Resulting from Melodic Intonation Therapy . Cortex . en . 10 . 4 . 303–316 . 10.1016/S0010-9452(74)80024-9 . 4452250 . 0010-9452. free .
  5. Web site: 8 January 2019 . Singing Your Way Past Stroke with Melodic Intonation Therapy .
  6. Book: Helm-Estabrooks . Nancy . Manual of Aphasia and Aphasia Therapy . Albert . Martin L. . 2004 . Pro-Ed . 978-0-89079-963-5 . en.
  7. Book: Approaches to the treatment of aphasia . 1998 . Singular Pub. Group . Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Audrey L. Holland . 1-56593-841-0 . San Diego . 37362356.
  8. 2000-12-01 . Interview With Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Recipient of the 2000 Honors of the Association . Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders . 10 . 4 . 3–4 . 10.1044/nnsld10.4.3.
  9. Web site: Fellowship of the Association Recipients . 2022-09-09 . American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
  10. Web site: Honorees . 2022-09-09 . www.ancds.org.
  11. Web site: Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award recipients prior to 2017 . American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation.
  12. Web site: Edith Kaplan Award - Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society . 2022-09-09 . mns.clubexpress.com.