SMILe Lab

04/12/2025

Proud of our awesome undergraduate students who presented their research at Northeastern’s RISE expo!

04/08/2025

Huge congratulations to our outstanding graduate student, Emily Hartford, on successfully defending her master’s thesis yesterday!

03/19/2025

March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month! 💚

At SMILe Lab, we are dedicated to research focused on improving communication for individuals with Cerebral Palsy (CP). This month, we’re sharing key facts, current research, and valuable resources to raise awareness and foster understanding of CP.

Cerebral Palsy is the most common childhood motor disability, affecting movement, posture, and coordination in different ways. While there is no cure, advancements in research, therapy, and biotechnology continue to expand opportunities to thos with CP.

Join us in our continued advocacy in recognizing the strength of the CP community! Stay tuned for more! 💚✨

03/08/2025

The SMILe lab was proud to stand up for science today!

12/08/2024

Our lab had a wonderful time presenting our research at !

10/11/2024

We had a great time at SOURCE yesterday! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our station to learn about our lab and ongoing studies!

10/06/2024

Happy ! 💚 We’re excited to recognize this day that aims to bring together people with CP, their families, and organizations and ensure those with CP have equitable rights, access, and opportunities. We are honored to work with children who have CP and are excited to continue our research that investigates how communication can be improved for those with CP and dysarthria! For those in the Boston area, we also wanted to highlight some CP resources. Find the link in the comments of this post!

10/04/2024

There are 2 days until 💚 Today, we would like to highlight a concept called speech intelligibility, a measure we use in our studies to determine how well a listener can understand what a speaker is saying 🗣️Swipe to learn more about how this measure is used in cerebral palsy research!

10/02/2024

is this Sunday 10/6! The SMILe Lab works closely with children with CP and to honor this day, we would like to highlight a common speech disorder among those with CP. Swipe to learn more about dysarthria, a neuromotor speech disorder that impacts more than half of children with CP.

09/23/2024

We’re now recruiting healthy adults ages 18-40 for a 30-minute study in our lab! You will be asked to listen to recordings of children talking and complete tasks as you listen. 🎧 You’ll receive a $10 Amazon gift card for participating! Message us or email smilespeechlab@northeastern.edu to participate!

05/13/2024

We had a great time this weekend at the Pediatric Stroke Advisory Council’s Play to Thrive event! Thank you to all who came by our station to learn about our ongoing studies!

04/24/2024