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Tilton-Bolowsky, Victoria E. (veb2119)

Victoria Tilton-Bolowsky

Assistant Professor Communication Sciences and Disorders
Director, Creative & Inclusive Rehabilitation for Communicating with Aphasia Lab

Office Location:

525 W. 120th Street

Office Hours:

Wednesdays and Thursdays, 12:00-1:30pm EST

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Educational Background

2011     B.A., Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD

2014     M.S., Speech-Language Pathology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

2022     Ph.D., Rehabilitation Sciences, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA

Selected Publications

  1. Nunn K, Tilton-Bolowsky V, Kershenbaum AM. Moving toward anti-ableist practices in aphasia rehabilitation and research: A viewpoint. Am J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2024.  
  2. Tilton-Bolowsky V*, Stockbridge MD*, Hillis AE. Remapping and reconnecting the language network after stroke. Brain Sci. 2024;14(5)419.   *Equal contributions
  3. Tilton-Bolowsky V, Hillis AE. A review of poststroke aphasia recovery and treatment options. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2024;35(2):419-431).
  4. Galleé J, Tilton-Bolowsky V, Stark BC. The Communication Success Screener (COMSS): A preliminary investigation of perceived communicative success across modalities, environments, and demands. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2024;67(1):149-169.  
  5. Tilton-Bolowsky V, Hoffman L, Nunn K, Evans WS, Vallila-Rohter S. Incorporating metacognitive strategy training into semantic treatment promotes restitutive and substitutive gains in naming: A single-subject investigation. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2023;32(5):1979-2020.  
  6. Tilton-Bolowsky V, van der Stelt C, DeMarco A, Laks A, Dobbins C, Snider SF, Turkeltaub PE, Vallila-Rohter S. Evaluating circumlocution in naming as a predictor of communicative informativeness and efficiency in discourse. Aphasiology. 2023;37(3).  
  7. Tilton-Bolowsky V, Davis A, Zipse L. Mapping meta-therapy onto the treatment of cognitivecommunication and language disorders in adults. Perspec ASHA SIGs. 2022;8(4):640-658. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_PERSP-22-00072.
  8. Schliep M, Tilton-Bolowsky V, Vallila-Rohter S. Cue responsiveness as a measure of emerging language ability in aphasia. Top Stroke Rehabil. 2021;29(2):133-145.  
Funding: Barbara Martin Aphasia Research Grant — National Aphasia Association
Project Title: Semantic Feature Analysis + Metacognitive Strategy Training: A Phase-II Study
Total direct costs: $10,000
Duration: October 2025-September 2026
 
Funding: LSVT Global Student Research Grant
Project Title: Incorporating strategy training into naming treatment to improve generalization in aphasia
Total direct costs: $1500
Duration: August 2021-August 2022
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