Communicative Sciences & Disorders
Welcome to the Aging and Cognition Research Clinic (ACRC)
Director and
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nidhi Mahendra
Graduate Assistants: Josie Heckenberg, Karen Fremont, Emily Dionne
Lab Alumni:
Allegra Apple, Danielle Reed, Susan Carroll, Adithya Chandregowda, Nisha
Engineer, Katie Schoneman, Serena Cooper, Cayce Hamerschlag, Amanda Scullion
Volunteers: Tamar Solomon, Laura Ludlow, Amal Maghazil
Past
Volunteers: Dawn Robinson-Carreiro, Holly Hamilton, Joanna La, Kristine Kaplan,
Thomas Hickey, Angela Barber
Please email us at dementiacare@gmail.com,or
or email Dr. Mahendra at nidhi.mahendra@csueastbay.edu
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The Goals of the ACRC are to: · Investigate
typical and atypical cognition in healthy young and old adults · Document
effective techniques for screening and assessing cognitive and communicative
abilities in healthy older adults and persons with dementia, with a focus on
assessing spared and impaired abilities and documenting restorative potential · Design
feasible and efficacious cognitive interventions for individuals with dementia · Contribute
to evidence-based practice guidelines for the assessment and management of
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias · To
learn more about my recently
completed research funded by the Alzheimer's Association, click
here. To
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Current Funding: · 2012-2013:
Masonic Home for Adults · 2012:
Faculty Learning Community Grant, CSUEB · 2011-2012:
CSUEB Research Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant, Office of Research and
Professional Development
Completed Funding: · 2008,
2010, 2011: Faculty Learning Community Grants · 2006-2010:
Alzheimer’s Association, Everyday Technology for Alzheimer Care (ETAC) Initiative · 2006-2008:
Multicultural research grant, American Speech-Language Hearing Association · 2006-2007:
Research Scholarly Creative Activity (RSCA) Grant Participating Clinical Sites: · Masonic
Home for Adults, Union City · Summerville at
Landmark Villa · Ralph
and Mary Ruggieri Senior Center, Union City · Aegis
of Fremont and Carlton Plaza · Fremont Hills
Assisted Living ACRC Research and Publications · Computer-Based
Cognitive Interventions for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease · Academy of
Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences - Dementia Best Practice
Guidelines Publications
– Chapters · Mahendra, N., & Hopper, T. (2011).
Dementia and related cognitive disorders. In I. Papathanasiou, P. Coppens, C.
Potagas (Eds). Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Communication Disorders. Boston,
MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. ·
Bayles, K. A., Mahendra, N., Hopper, T.
(2011). Dementia. In K. Hilari and N. Botting (Eds.) The impact of
communication disability across the lifespan. London, UK: J & R
Press. ·
Mahendra, N. (2011). Overview of
aphasia and approaches to aphasia intervention. In R. Koul (Ed.) Augmentative
and alternative communication for adults with aphasia. London, UK:
Emerald Publishers. · Mahendra, N. (2010). An adult with dementia of the Alzheimer type: A
roadmap for screening, assessment, and cognitive-linguistic interventions. In
S. Chabon & E. Cohn (Eds). The Communication Disorders Casebook:
Learning by Example. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Publications
– Select Journal Articles · Cognitive-Linguistic
Interventions for Persons With Dementia: A Practitioner’s Guide to 3 Evidence-Based
Techniques. (Mahendra, Scullion, & Hamerschlag, 2011) · Computer-assisted
spaced retrieval training of faces and names for persons with dementia.
(Mahendra, 2011) · Effects
of vascular dementia on cognition and linguistic communication: A case study.
(Mahendra & Engineer, 2009) · Individuals
with Alzheimer's disease achieve implicit and explicit learning: Previous
success replicated with different stimuli (Mahendra, Arkin, & Kim,
2007) · Human
memory systems: A framework for understanding dementia (Mahendra &
Apple, 2007) · Effect of
Presentation Modality on Immediate and Delayed Recall in Individuals With
Alzheimer's Disease (Mahendra, Bayles, & Harris, 2005) · Effects of four years of exercise, language, and social
interventions on Alzheimer discourse (Mahendra & Arkin, 2003) · Direct Interventions for Improving the Performance of Individuals
with Alzheimer's Disease (Mahendra, 2001) · Insight in
Alzheimer's patients: Results of a longitudinal study using three assessment
methods (Arkin & Mahendra, 2001) Useful Resources and Links on Aging and Alzheimer's Disease · What is
Alzheimer's, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment · Living with
Alzheimer's, care for the person and family · Alzheimer's
Association - Northern California and Northern Nevada Chapter · Memory and Aging
Center-University of California San Francisco · Stanford/VA
Alzheimer's Research Center of California (ARCC) · Senior Living.org - California
Other Resources · Association for the
Advancement of Retired Persons (AARP) · American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association-Dementia · Mild Cognitive
Impairment-Mayo Clinic · Assisted Living Services Directory |
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