Micòl Martinelli

Doctoral student
Linguistics
2019-2021

Mik was a PhD student in the Linguistics Program writing her dissertation on the communication strategies used by nurses and speech-language pathologists when caring for patients with aphasia. Her dissertation won the Holistic Science Prize from the OSU College Arts & Sciences, sponsored by the Math department. She graduated in 2021 and began teaching at Midwestern State in Texas. She continues to collaborate with OSU faculty and is leading a project to develop and test a training program that will familiarize listeners with dysarthic speech to help them better understand speakers with diseases like Parkinson's and cerebral palsy.

Projects:

Dysarthric Familiarization

Pandemic Therapy

Related Papers and Presentations (*student author):

• Martinelli, M., Freeman, V., Loss, S., & Parveen, S. (in revision). Dysarthric speech familiarization: Distributed practice and interleaving. 
• *Martinelli, M. (2021). Illuminating collaborative talk in healthcare interactions with people with aphasia: Three linguistic approaches. Doctoral dissertation, Oklahoma State University.
  • Winner, OSU Holistic Science Prize
• Tetnowski, J., Parveen, S., Freeman, V., Norton, S., & *Martinelli, M. (2021, November). The impact of wearing a mask on stuttering behaviors and self-perceptions. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Washington, DC/Online.
• Tetnowski, J., Parveen, S., Freeman, V., Norton, S. & *Martinelli, M. (2021, May).  The impact of a pandemic on people with communication disorders: Preliminary findings on masks and services.  Presented by J. Tetnowski, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Special Interest Group on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, Online.