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Hearing and Speech Sciences

Jade Mitchell

PhD Candidate

Principal Investigators: Dr. Melissa Duff & Dr. Michael de Riesthal

Education:

  • BS, Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2018, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  • MS, Speech-Language Pathology, 2021, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)

Research Description:

I’m interested in evaluating the social and emotional deficits that accompany traumatic brain injury especially in populations with impaired access to services.

Publications

  • McGee, E., Monroe-White, T., Nicole, Z., Mitchell, J.T., & White, D. (under review). Blackwomen STEM Entrepreneurs Networking for A Future Community. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
  • McGee, E. O., Mitchell, J.T., Junhao C. (in press). New Homeland: How Geography Matters in the College Selection and Career Decisions of STEM PhDs. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research.
  • Mitchell, J.T., Edwards, M., Walsh, K., Brown-Schmidt, S., & Duff, M.C. (2024) Comprehension of Miranda warnings in adults with chronic, moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. Journal of Communication Disorders. 111, 106452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106452
  • Mitchell, J.T., Covington, N., Morrow, E., DeRiesthal, M., & Duff, M.C. (2024). Memory and traumatic brain injury: Assessment and management practices of speech-language pathologists. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-23-00231
  • Hu, Y., Lim, H., Kakonge, L., Mitchell, J.T., Johnson, H.L., Turkstra, L., Duff, M.C., Toma, C., & Mutlu, B. (2024). SMART-TBI: Design and evaluation of the social media accessibility and rehabilitation toolkit for users with traumatic brain injury. In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3663548.3675641
  • Millager, R. A., Feldman, J. I., Williams, Z. J., Shibata, K., Martinez-Torres, K. A., Bryan, K. M., Pruett, D.G., Mitchell, J.T., Markfeld, J.E., Merritt, B., Daniels, D.E., Jones, R. M., & Woynaroski, T. (2024). Diversity of Research Participant Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Communication Sciences and Disorders: A Systematic Review and Quantitative Synthesis of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Publications in 2020. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1-17.

Awards & Fellowships

  • (2024)  New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
  • (2024 – 25) Predoctoral Trainee, Translational Interdisciplinary Research Training in Communication Sciences and Disorders (T32DC020141)
  • (2024)  Harold S. Vanderbilt Scholarship, Vanderbilt University
  • (2022) ANCDS Conference Student Fellowship, Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders & Sciences
  • (2022)  Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  • (2021 – 23) University Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University