"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

   - Albert Einstein

Kristie Spencer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
     
      Adult sensorimotor speech disorders
      Adult cognitive-linguistic disorders

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Dept. of Speech & Hearing Sciences
       (For Campus Mail only: Box 354875)
University of Washington
1417 NE 42nd St.
Seattle, WA 98105-6246

kas@u.washington.edu
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Education & Research: Speech-Language Pathology Division
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Kristie Spencer joined the faculty in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences in September of 2003. Following her master’s degree, Dr. Spencer worked for seven years as a research speech-language pathologist and clinical supervisor at the neuropsychiatric VA Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA. During that time, her clinical experience primarily involved adults with neurogenic speech, language and cognitive disorders. She collaborated on research related to treatment efficacy, discourse analysis for adults with aphasia, and post-stroke depression. Dr. Spencer has presented research at the Clinical Aphasiology conference, the Academy of Aphasia, the Conference on Motor Speech, the International Neuropsychological Society meeting, and the state and national Speech-Language-Hearing Associations.  

Dr. Spencer’s current research is focused on how the brain gets ready to give a speech response. This period of "response preparation" may be particularly faulty in people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and diseases of the cerebellum, and may contribute to difficulties that they have when speaking. To better understand speech preparation, Dr. Spencer uses reaction time tasks to identify aberrant processing patterns, and looks at these patterns while participants are "on" and "off" of their medications for PD.

Dr. Spencer will teach graduate courses in Management of Acquired Cognitive Disorders, Neurogenic Motor Speech Disorders, and the Assessment and Treatment of Neurological Disorders.

Spencer, K.A. & Slocomb, D.L. (2007). The neural bais of ataxic dysarthtia. The Cerebellum, 6(1), 58-65.  

Spencer, K.A. (2007). Aberrant response preparation in Parkinson's disease. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 15(1), 83-96.

Spencer, K.A. & Rogers, M.A. (2005). Speech motor programming in hypokinetic and ataxic dysarthria. Brain and Language, 94(3), 347-366.

Spencer, K.A. , Yorkston, K.M., and Duffy, J.R. (2003). Behavioral management of respiratory/phonatory dysfunction from dysarthria: A flowchart for guidance in clinical decision-making. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 11 (2), xxxix-lxi.  

Yorkston, K.M., Spencer, K.A., Duffy, J.R., Beukelman, D.R., Golper, L.A. , Miller, R., Strand , E.A., and Sullivan, M. (2001). Evidence-based practice guidelines for dysarthria: Management of velopharyngeal function. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 9(4) , 257-273.

Rogers, M.A. and Spencer, K.A. (2001). Spoken word production without assembly: Is it possible? Aphasiology , 15 (1), 68-74.  

Spencer, K.A. , Doyle, P.J., McNeil, M.R., Wambaugh, J.L., Carroll, B., and Park, G. (2000). Examining the facilitative effects of rhyme in a patient with output lexicon damage. Aphasiology, 14 (5/6), 567-584.  

Spencer, K.A., Tompkins , C.A. , and Schulz, R. (1997). Assessment of depression in patients with brain pathology: The case of stroke. Psychological Bulletin, 122 (2), 132-152.

McNeil, M.R., Doyle, P.J., Spencer, K.A., Goda, A.J, Flores , D., and Small, S.L. (1997). A double-blind, placebo controlled study of pharmacological and behavioral treatment of lexical semantic deficits in aphasia. Aphasiology, 11 (4/5), 385-400.  

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