Maria I. Grigos, Ph.D. CCC-SLP
New YorkUniversity
665 Broadway, Suite 918
New York, New York10012
212.998.5228
Education
Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity - New York, New York
Doctor of Philosophy – May 2002
Focus areas: Speech motor control and phonology, Awarded with Distinction
Masters of Science – February 1993, Major: Speech Language Pathology
New YorkUniversity - New York, New York
Bachelors of Science – May 1991
Employment
New YorkUniversity – January 2004 to present
SteinhardtSchoolof Culture, Education and Human Development
Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Study
Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity
Department of Biobehavioral Sciences
Visiting Professor: September 2002 to August 2003
Instructor and Student Advisor: September 1998 to May 2002
Clinic Laboratory Coordinator: September 1998 to May 2002
Clinic Supervisor: September 1996 to June 1998
Staten IslandUniversityHospital - Staten Island, New York
Speech Language Pathologist: February 1993 to June 1996
Publications
Grigos, M.I. & Patel, R. (in revision). Spatial and temporal features of articulatory control associated with the production of sentential focus in children. Journal of Phonetics.
Grigos, M.I. & Kolenda, N. (2010). The relationship between articulatory control and improved phonemic accuracy in childhood apraxia of speech: a longitudinal case study. Clinical Linguisticsand Phonetics, 24(1), 17-40.
Grigos, M.I. (2009). Changes in articulator movement variability during phonemic development: a longitudinal study. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 52, 164-177
Grigos, M.I. & Patel, R. (2007). Articulator movement associated with the development of prosodic control in children.Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 50 (1), 1-18.
Patel, R. & Grigos, M.I. (2006). Acoustic characterization of the question-statement contrast in 4, 7 and 11 year old children. Speech Communication, 48, 1308-1318.
Grigos, M.I., Saxman, J.H. & Gordon, A.M. (2005). Speech motor development during acquisition of the voicing contrast. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 48, 739-752.
Works in Progress
Grigos, M.I. & Dumo, A. (in preparation) Developmental changes in the oral and laryngeal systems during bilabial stop consonant production.
Case, J. & Grigos, M.I. (in preparation) Stop consonant production in monolingual and bilngual speakers of Spanish and English..
Reuterskiöld, C., Grigos, M.I. & Barish, N. (in preparation). Non-word repetition and speech motor control: A study of oral articulator kinematics.
Grigos, M.I. (in preparation). Development of the voicing contrast in childhood apraxia of speech
Grigos, M.I., Hayden, D. & Eigen, J. (in preparation). Perceptual and articulatory changes in speech production following PROMPT treatment.
Grigos, M.I.Reuterskiöld, C. (in preparation). The influence of increased phonological complexity on lip and jaw movement coordination in real and non-word productions.
Klein, H.B. & Grigos, M.I. (in preparation). The influence of clinical experience on the perception of /r/ errors in children.
Klein, H.B. & Davidson, L. & Grigos, M.I.(in preparation). The relationshipbetween perception andultrasound measurement of developing /r/.
Grigos, M.I. (data collection). Coordination of oral articulator movement in childhood apraxia of speech.
Abstracts
Patel, R., Piel, J. & Grigos, M.I. (2005). Acoustics of contrastive prosody in children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 2429.
Patel, R. Syeda, M. & Grigos, MI (2004). Acoustic correlates of the question-statement contrast. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 2627.
Grants Awarded
R03 DC009079-012008-2011
NIDCD (National Institute of Health)
Title: “Articulator movement in developmental apraxia of speech”
Role: PI
Amount: $150,000
Summer Research Development AwardMay 2006
New YorkUniversity
Title: “Articulator movement in developmental apraxia of speech”
Role: PI
Amount: $5,000
Steinhardt Research Challenge GrantJune 2004
New YorkUniversity
Title: “Lip and jaw movement in children with phonological impairments”
Role: PI
Amount: $4,000
Dean’s Grant for Student ResearchApril 2000
Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity
Support for Dissertation
Additional Grant Applications (not funded)
NIH Supplemental Application (EQ) – Research Equipment: Submitted March 2009; Role: PI
NIH Supplemental Application (ACC) – Professional Staff: Submitted March 2009; Role: PI
Steinhardt Research Challenge Grant: Submitted March 2009; Role: PI
Title: An investigation of perceptual and articulatory changes in speech production following PROMPT treatment.
Steinhardt Research Challenge Grant: Submitted March 2008, Role: Co-PI
Title: Phonological memory and speech motor control in adults with and without poor spelling skills
University Research Challenge Grant: Submitted November 2004; Role: PI
Title: Articulator movement in children with cochlear implants
Teaching Experience
New YorkUniversity
2004 to present
Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology:
- Introduction to Articulation and Phonological Disorders
- Advanced Phonological Disorders in Children
- Neurogenic Speech Disorders in Children
- Acoustic Phonetics
- Speech Science: Instrumentation
- Craniofacial Disorders
Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity
1997 to 2003
Department of Biobehavioral Sciences
- Cleft Palate
- Articulation and Phonological Disorders
- Introduction to Speech and Language Disorders
- Laboratory Methods and Instrumentation
- Diagnostic Methods in Speech Language Pathology
- Tests & Testing Procedures in Speech Pathology
- Seminar in Neuromotor Processes (Co-Instructor)
Editorial Experience
Reviewer - Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research2005 to present
Reviewer - Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica2006
Reviewer – Journal of Phonetics2009
Presentations
Grigos, M.I., Hyman, L. & Hon, S. The relationship between articulator movement and error consistency in childhood apraxia of speech. Upcoming oral presentation at the Motor Speech Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 2010.
Grigos, M.I. , Hayden, D. & Eigen, J. Perceptual and articulatory changes in speech production following PROMPT treatment. Upcoming poster presentation at the Motor Speech Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 2010.
Grigos, M.I. Articulator movement variability in children with impaired speech production skills.Oral presentation in the Research Colloquium at Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, December 2009.
Grigos, M.I. & Reuterskiöld, C. Developmental changes in cognitive processing, phonological complexity and articulator movement. Poster presentation at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2009.
Klein, H.B. & Davidson, L. & Grigos, M.I. Relationship between perception & ultrasound measurement of developing /r. Poster presentation at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2009.
Grigos, M.I. The development of articulatory control in childhood apraxia of speech. Oral presentation at the Research Colloquium at Haskins Laboratories, Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 2009.
Klein, H. Davidson, L. & Grigos, M.I. Relationship between perceptual and ultrasound measurements of /r/ development in children with phonological delay.Poster presentation at the Child Phonology Conference, Austin TX, June 2009.
Grigos, M.I. & Reuterskiöld, C. Non-word repetition and speech motor control.Oral presentation in the Research Colloquium in the Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology at New York University, New York, NY, December 2008.
Grigos, M.I. The relationship between articulatory control and linguistic development in children. Oral presentation Research Colloquium at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, October 2008.
Reuterskiöld, C.& Grigos, M.I.Word and non-word repetition and speech motor control in children. Poster presentation at the Child Language Symposium, Madison, WI, June 2008.
Grigos, M.I., Reuterskiold, C. & Erwin, N. The input-output relationship: Understanding the relationship between speech motor control and phonological memory. Oral presentation at the Motor Speech Conference, Monterey, CA, March 2008.
Case, J. & Grigos, M.I. Lip kinematics in early and late bilingual speaker of Spanish. Poster presentation at the Motor Speech Conference, Monterey, CA, March 2008.
Grigos, M.I. & Kolenda, N. Jaw movement in children with developmental apraxia and phonological impairment. Poster presentation at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual convention, Boston, MA, November 2007.
Case, J. & Grigos, M.I. Articulator movement of Spanish-English bilinguals in the production of /p/. Poster presentation at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual convention, Boston, MA, November 2007.
Grigos, M.I. Articulator movement stability across a period of phonemic development. Poster presentation at the Motor Speech Conference, Austin, TX, March 2006.
Patel, R., Piel, J. & Grigos, M.I. Acoustics of contrastive prosody in children. Poster presentation at the 149th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, NY, May 2005.
Grigos, M.I. & Patel, R. Articulator movement associated with the production of prosodic contrasts in children. Poster presentation at the American Speech Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 2004.
Grigos, M.I. & Patel, R. Kinematics of question asking. Poster presentation at the Sound to Sense Conference, Boston, MA, June 2004.
Grigos, M.I. & Patel, R. Production of the question-statement contrast during development. Oral presentation at the Motor Speech Conference, Albuquerque, NM, March 2004.
Grigos, M.I. Changes in articulatory kinematics during development. Guest lecturer for Doctoral Seminar, New York University, November 2003.
Grigos, M.I., Saxman, J.H. & Gordon, A. Speech motor development during acquisition of the voicing contrast. Oral presentation at the Motor Speech Conference, Williamsburg, VA, March 2002.
Grigos, M.I. Communication impairments in genetic disorders. Guest lecturer for Introduction to Speech and Language Disorders course. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, December 2001.
Grigos, M.I. Assessment of speech impairments in children with craniofacial disorders. Guest lecturer for Cleft Palate and Speech Habilitation course, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, June 2001.
Grigos, M.I. Oral peripheral assessment in craniofacial disorders. Practicum Lecture, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 2000.
Grigos, M.I. Clinical management of craniofacial disorders – A seminar for speech language pathologists. Invited presentation for the New York City Board of Education. Staten Island, NY, May 1995.
Grigos, M.I. & Hoffman, D. Team management of cleft lip and palate. Invited presentation for the New York City Board of Education. Staten Island, NY, May 1994.
Academic Awards
Award for Teaching AchievementSeptember 2003; September 2001
Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity
Edward D. Mysak Achievement AwardJanuary 1998
Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity
Professional Associations
Acoustical Society of America
American Cleft Palate Association
American Speech Language Hearing Association
New York City Speech Language Hearing Association
New YorkState Speech Language Hearing Association
Professional Certification and Licensure
ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence, Speech Language Pathology
New YorkState License in Speech Language Pathology