Lauren was a member of the TAN Lab from Spring 2024 to Spring 2025. While in the lab, she assisted with data analysis for the Connectivity of Language in Early Aphasia Recovery (CLEAR) project. She earned her M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northeastern University in May 2025. Lauren is interested in working with adults in the medical setting to improve their communication and swallowing. 

Izzy was a member of the TAN Lab from Spring 2024 to Spring 2025. During her time in the lab, she helped administer language and cognitive testing to participants with aphasia, and assisted with data analysis for the Connectivity of Language in Early Aphasia Recovery (CLEAR) project. She earned her M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northeastern University in May 2025. She is currently completing her Clinical Fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. 

Skylar was a TAN Lab member from Fall 2023 to Spring 2025. Her work in the lab focused primarily on the Ecological Momentary Analysis (EMA) or “smartwatch” study, including developing a scoring protocol for novel picture naming task and assisting with transcription and and micro-/macro-linguistic analysis of discourse samples from participans with aphasia. She successfully defended her master’s thesis, titled “The Relationships Between Single-Word Naming, Discourse Measures and Self-Reported Communicative Effectiveness in People with Aphasia,” and earned her M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northeastern University in May 2025. She is passionate about working with adults with neurogenic communication disorders, and is currently completing her Clinical Fellowship in New York state.  

Divya was a member of TAN Lab from Spring 2022 to Spring 2025. In the lab, she was closely involved in fNIRS data analysis, and completed an independent research project related to fNIRS data quality, which she presented at the 2024 RISE student research expo. She also helped to develop several tasks administered in the lab during fNIRS data collection. Divya graduated from Northeastern in 2025 with her B.S. in Bioengineering and Biochemistry, and is currently furthering her studies as a graduate student.