Biography
Gayle DeDe, PhD, CCC-SLP is an associate professor (research track) in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Temple University's College of Public Health. She earned her MA and PhD from the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Boston University. She is currently co-director of the Speech, Language, and Brain Lab at Temple University. She is also the director of the Philadelphia Aphasia Community at Temple (PACT).
Dr. DeDe’s research area is language comprehension, as well as the relationship between language comprehension and general cognitive processes such as working memory. Current research is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying real-time sentence comprehension including the types of conceptual and linguistic information that contribute to sentence processing, how and when those types of information are integrated, and how those processes are affected by aging and aphasia. Dr. DeDe is also interested in developing and testing treatment approaches for people with aphasia. Her research in this area has focused on group treatment approaches and the development of reading comprehension treatments.
Education
- PhD, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, Boston University
- MS, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, Boston University
- BA, Psychology, McGill University
Google Scholar: DeDe Gayle's Google Scholar profile
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
CSCD 3232 | Introduction to Aphasia and Evidence-Based Communicative Interventions | Undergraduate |
CSCD 4222 | Speech and Language Disorders: Adults | Undergraduate |
CSCD 4730 | Topics in Communication Sciences and Disorders | Undergraduate |
CSCD 9587 | Advanced Practicum in Aphasia | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
DeDe, G. & Kelleher, D. (2021). Effects of animacy and sentence type on silent reading comprehension in aphasia: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 57. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100950.
Dede, G. & Hoover, E. (2021). Measuring Change at the Discourse-Level following Conversation Treatment: Examples from Mild and Severe Aphasia. Topics in Language Disorders, 41(1), 5-26. doi: 10.1097/TLD.0000000000000243.
Rofes, A., Aguiar, V.d., Jonkers, R., Oh, S., DeDe, G., & Sung, J. (2020). What Drives Task Performance During Animal Fluency in People With Alzheimer’s Disease? Frontiers in Psychology, 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01485.
DeDe, G. (2020). Perceptual span in individuals with aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(2), 235-253. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2019.1591612.
Hoover, E., McFee, A., & Dede, G. (2020). Efficacy of Group Conversation Intervention in Individuals with Severe Profiles of Aphasia. Seminars in Speech and Language, 41(1), 71-82. doi: 10.1055/s-0039-3400991.
Dede, G. & Salis, C. (2020). Temporal and episodic analyses of the story of cinderella in latent aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(1 Special Issue), 449-462. doi: 10.1044/2019_AJSLP-CAC48-18-0210.
DeDe, G., Hoover, E., & Maas, E. (2019). Two to tango or the more the merrier? A randomized controlled trial of the effects of group size in aphasia conversation treatment on standardized tests. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(5), 1437-1451. doi: 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-18-0404.
DeDe, G. (2017). Effects of lexical variables on silent reading comprehension in individuals with aphasia: Evidence from eye tracking. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(9), 2589-2602. doi: 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-16-0045.
DiLallo, J., Mettler, H., & DeDe, G. (2017). Corpus-based transitivity biases in individuals with aphasia. Aphasiology, 31(4), 447-464. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2016.1271105.