Mikyong Kim

  • Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator, PhD, CCC-SLP
  • Communicative Disorders
  • Phone: 401.874.4728
  • Email: mikyong@uri.edu
  • Office Location: Independence Square, Suite K

Biography

Mikyong Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders. She is also the graduate program coordinator for the M.S. Speech-Language Pathology program.

Research

Dr. Kim’s primary research interest is in the treatment of language deficits in individuals with aphasia. She has been conducting reading as well as writing treatment studies with individuals with aphasia. She also works with individuals with Primary Progressive Aphasia and their family members to understand the best practice approaches in managing the changing symptoms of the disorder.

Dr. Kim has been running a weekly Aphasia Book Club with the help of graduate student clinicians as an outreach program since Spring of 2006. Please contact her (mikyong@uri.edu) if you are interested in being involved in her research or outreach activities.

Education

  • Ph.D., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University
  • M.A., Speech & Language Pathology, Northwestern University
  • B.A., English, Yonsei University

Selected Publications

Kim, M.  (2018).  Comprehension.  In L. L. LaPointe & J. A. G. Stierwalt (Eds.), Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Language Disorders, 5th Edition (pp. 90-99).  New York: Thieme.

Kim, M. (2017).  Effect of Lexical Retrieval Cascade treatment on naming and discourse of individuals with Logopenic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia (lvPPA).  Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders, 2(3), 197-208.  https://doi.org/10.21849/cacd2017.00171

Kim, M.  (2011).  Comprehension.  In L. L. LaPointe (Ed.), Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Language Disorders, 4th Edition (pp. 111-102).  New York: Thieme.

Kim, M., & Russo, S.  (2010).  Multiple Oral Rereading (MOR) treatment: Who is it for?  Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 37, 58-68.

Lee, S., Kim, H., Seo, S., & Kim, M.  (2009).  Patterns of word class production between picture description and narrative tasks in aphasia.  Korean Journal of Communication Disorders, 14, 470-483.

Kim, M., & Beaudoin-Parsons, D.  (2007).  Training phonological reading in deep alexia: does it improve reading words with low imageability?  Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 21 (5), 321-351.

Kim. M., Adingono, M. F., & Revoir, J. S.  (2007).  Argument structure enhanced verb naming treatment: Two case studies.  Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 34, 24-36.