Associate Professor
Coordinator, Communication Disorders Program
Room: 802 COE
Phone: (404) 413-8299
Email: jlaures@gsu.edu
Vita
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3979
Atlanta, GA 30302-3979
EDUCATION:
MAJOR AREAS OF INTEREST:
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Laures-Gore, J.S. (in press). Aphasia severity and salivary cortisol over time. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.
Taylor, N., Greenberg, D., Laures-Gore, J., & Wise, J. (in press). Exploring the syntactic skills of struggling adult readers. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Dubay, M., Laures-Gore, J., Matheny, L., & Romski, M. A. (2011). Coping resources in individuals with aphasia. Aphasiology, 25(9), 1016-1029.
Laures-Gore, J., Marshall, R.M., Verner, E. (2011). Digit span differences in aphasia and right brain damage. Aphasiology, 25(1), 43-56.
Russell, S., Laures-Gore, J., & Patel, R. (2010). Treating expressive aprosodia: A case study. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 18(4), 115-119.
Laures-Gore, J., DuBay, M., Duff, M.C., Buchanan, T.W. (2010). Identifying behavioral measures of stress in individuals with aphasia. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 53, 1394-1400.
Laures-Gore, J., Hamilton, A., & Matheny, K. (2007). Coping resources, perceived stress, and life experiences in individuals with aphasia. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 15, 4, 423-431.
Laures-Gore, J., Heim, C., & Hsu, Y.S. (2007). Assessing cortisol reactivity to a linguistic task as a marker of stress in individuals with left hemisphere stroke and aphasia. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research,50,2, 493-507.
Laures-Gore, J.S., Contado-Henson, J., Weismer, G., & Rambow, M. (2006). Two cases of foreign accent syndrome: An acoustic-phonetic description. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 20, 10, 781-790.
Gorham-Rowan, M. & Laures-Gore, J.S. (2006). Acoustic and perceptual correlates of the aging voice. Journal of Communication Disorder, 39, 171-184.
Laures, J. S. (2005). Reaction time and accuracy in individuals with aphasia during auditory vigilance tasks. Brain and Language, 95(2), 353-357.
Rosenbek, J. & Laures, J.S. (2004). Wrinkled Feet…. Botox Anyone? Aphasiology, 18(11), 1043-1067. Invited Paper.
Laures, J.S. & Shisler, R. (2004). Complementary and alternative medicine in the treatment of adult neurogenic communication disorders: A review. Disability and Rehabilitation, 26(6), 315-325.
Laures, J.S., Odell, K. & Coe, C. (2003). Arousal and auditory vigilance in individuals with aphasia during a linguistic and nonlinguistic task. Aphasiology, 17(12), 1133-1152.
Laures, J. S. & Bunton, K. (2003). Perceptual effects of a flattened fundamental frequency at the sentence level under different listening conditions. Journal of Communication Disorders, 36, 449-464.
Weismer, G. & Laures, J.S. (2002). Direct magnitude estimation of speech intelligibility: Effects of a chosen standard. Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research, 45, 421-433.
Weismer, G., Jeng, J.Y., Laures, J.S., Kent, R.D., & Kent, J.F. (2001). Acoustic and intelligibility characteristics of sentence production in parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 53, 1-18.
Weismer, G., Laures, J.S., Jeng, J.Y., Kent, R.D., & Kent, J.F. (2000). The effect of speaking rate manipulations on acoustic and perceptual aspects of the dysarthria in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 52, 201-219.
Laures, J.S. & Weismer, G. (1999). The effects of a flattened fundamental frequency on intelligibility at the sentence level. Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research, 42, 1148-1156.
GRANTS
Funded:
Laures, J.S. (2005-2009). Hypercortisolemia and aphasia. National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. ($202,320; Principal Investigator).
Laures-Gore, J.S. (2008-2009). Research in the biopsychology of stress in individuals with aphasia. College of Education Proposal Development Grant, Georgia State University. ($2000; Principal Investigator).
Greenberg, D., Morris, R., Fredrick, L., Rodrigo, V., & Laures-Gore, J. (2002-2007) Research on reading instruction for low literate adults. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. ($2,960,627; Co-Investigator).
Laures, J.S. (2003-2004). Hypercortisolemia and aphasia. Research Initiation Grant, Georgia State University. ($10,000; Principal Investigator).
Laures, J.S. (2002-2003). Stress and aphasia. Faculty Mentoring Grant, Georgia State University. ($11,000; Principal Investigator).
Laures, J.S. & Gorham-Rowan, M. (2002). Development of speech and voice sciences laboratory. Research Instrumentation Grant, Georgia State University. $23,350.
Laures, J.S. (2001). The neuroendocrine stress response associated with linguistic demands in individuals with aphasia. College of Education Proposal Development Grant, Georgia State University. ($900; Principal Investigator).
Laures, J.S. (2000). Energetic subsystems in aphasia: Arousal in individuals with aphasia during a linguistic and nonlinguistic vigilance task. Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison. ($600; Principal Investigator).