DR. MANASWITA DUTTA, CCC-SLP
Manaswita Dutta, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Portland State University. Her primary area of research focuses on understanding the nature of cognitive-linguistic changes that occur as a result of aging and neurological impairments. More specifically, her research evaluates cognitive functioning and discourse-level language processing, and how impairments in these skills can impact the functional communication and life participation outcomes of individuals with aphasia and other neurogenic language disorders. Her current work includes the measurement of spoken discourse outcomes and improving the clinical utility of discourse analysis tools in aphasia and in bilinguals with Alzheimer's Disease