Rachael Hass

Rachael is a second-year student in Pitt’s MA-SLP program. She received her B.A. in Communication Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Rachael’s interests include speech, pediatric feeding and swallowing, cognitive communication, and early intervention. She’s supported the lab’s pilot project “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Aphasia” as an undergrad RA by assisting with qualitative research as part of a master’s thesis. She is currently involved in the lab’s current clinical trial “Developing adaptive computer-based treatments for aphasia rehabilitation” by assisting with running participant sessions and scoring data. She is currently working on her own master’s thesis to analyze data from this trial and evaluate the reliability of novel discourse probes used within the trial.