Associate Professor
SLP Graduate Program Director

Faculty Scholar Institute on Urban Health Research


Education
·ScD, Boston University
·MEd, Northeastern University
·BS, Worcester State College

Certification
·American Speech-Language Hearing Association, CCC-SLP

Office: 103 Forsyth
Voice: 617-373-5750
Fax: 617-373-8756
E-mail: t.oneil-pirozzi@neu.edu


Scholarly Interests
· Cognition
· Dysphagia/Swallowing
· Family Homelessness and Language Literacy
· Medical Speech-Language Pathology (across the lifespan)
· Stuttering
· Traumatic Brain Injury
· Voice


Bio
Dr. Therese O'Neil-Pirozzi is highly interested in the integration of Speech Language Pathology theory and clinical practice with communication and swallowing impaired individuals across the lifespan. Her teaching is clinically based, thereby empowering students to apply knowledge learned in a particular area to individuals presenting with difficulties in that area. Her research focuses are all clinically motivated, for example: whether individual plus group therapy versus individual therapy alone facilitates significantly better functional outcomes in traumatically brain injured individuals; whether certain swallowing tests used with tracheostomized individuals reliably and validly measure what they are thought to measure. Her community service is driven by a desire to integrate personal social ethics and Speech-Language Pathology intervention skills, for example: overseeing a weekly program whereby undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology provide language literacy stimulation to children residing in homeless shelters. This program has been featured in the Boston Globe and, most recently, in On Call Magazine. In June 2003, Dr. O'Neil-Pirozzi received Northeastern University's prestigious "Excellence in Teaching Award," an honor initiated by her students.

2. Glenn MB, O'Neil-Pirozzi T, Goldstein R, Burke D, Jacob L. Depression amongst outpatients with traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 15(9):811-8, 2001.

3. Glenn MB, Burke DT, O'Neil-Pirozzi T, Goldstein R, Jacob L, Kettell J. Cutoff score on the apathy evaluation scale in subjects with traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 16(6):509-516, 2002.

4. O'Neil-Pirozzi TM, Lisiecki DJ, Momose KJ, Connors JJ, Milliner MP. Simultaneous modified barium swallow and blue dye tests: A determination of the accuracy of blue dye test aspiration findings. Dysphagia, 18(1):32-38, 2003.

5. O'Neil-Pirozzi TM. Language functioning of residents in family homeless shelters. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12(2):229-242, 2003.

6. O'Neil-Pirozzi, TM, Momose KJ, Mello J, Lepak P, McCabe M, Connors JJ, Lisieki DJ. Feasibility of swallowing interventions for tracheostomized individuals with severely disordered consciousness following traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 17(5):389-399, 2003.

7. O'Neil-Pirozzi, TM, Kendrick, H, Goldstein, R, Glenn, M. Clinician influences on use of portable electronic memory devices in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. Brain Injury, 18(2):179-189, 2004.

8. Strangman, G, O'Neil-Pirozzi, TM, Burke, D, Cristina, D, Goldstein, R, Rauch SL, Savage, CR, Glenn, MB. Functional neuroimaging and cognitive rehabilitation for people with traumatic brain injury. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 84(1):62-75, 2005.

9. O'Neil-Pirozzi TM, Goldstein, R. Test-retest reliability of the VIrtual Planning Test. Brain Injury, in press.

10. Blom-Hoffman, J, O'Neil-Pirozzi, TM, Cutting, J. Instructing parents to use dialogic reading strategies with preschool children: Acceptability of a video-based program in community health centers. Psychology in the Schools, in press.