Sonies Honored by ASLHA
Dr. Barbara Sonies, chief of the speech-language pathology section
and director of the ultrasound oral pharyngeal imaging laboratory of
the department of rehabilitation medicine, Clinical Center, received
the highest award, the HONORS, bestowed upon its members by
the American Speech-Language Hearing Association recently in San
Francisco. The award recognizes individuals whose contributions
have enhanced or altered the course of the profession of
speech-language pathology. Sonies' work in diagnosis of swallowing
and swallowing disorders raised the area of dysphagia management
to a respected position within medicine. She developed and
implemented the use of noninvasive ultrasound imaging of the
oropharynx for speech and swallowing, is a primary investigator and
is an internationally recognized expert in dysphagia.
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