Sofia Vallila Rohter

Dr. Vallila Rohter is currently assistant professor at Boston university. she has received PhD degree from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.Her research interests are Aphasia Rehabilitation, Neural mechanisms contributing to language relearning in aphasia, Memory Systems, Category and Rule Learning.

Her publications are as follows:
Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (under review). An examination of strategy implementation during abstract nonlinguistic category-learning in aphasia.
Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2013b). Nonlinguistic learning in individuals with aphasia: effects of training method and stimulus characteristics. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 22(2), S426 – 37.
Vallila-Rohter, S. M., & Kiran, S. (2013). Non-linguistic learning and aphasia: Evidence from a paired associate and feedback-based task. Neuropsychologia. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.10.024.
Heaton, J. & Vallila-Rohter, S. (under revision). Chapter 3: Anatomy and physiology of communication and swallowing. In A. Johnson & G. Lof (Eds.) PRAXIS: Speech-Language Pathology Examination Study Guide. Evanston: TherapyEd.
Vallila-Rohter, S & Kiran, S. (under revision). Diagnosis and treatment of semantic disorders. In A. Hillis (Ed.), The Handbook of Adult Language Disorders, 2nd Edition.
Vallila, S. & Kiran, S. (2011). Exploration into feedback and non-feedback based learning in aphasia. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Academy of Aphasia Conference. Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences. 23, 116 – 117.