Title:  Associate Professor

Department:  Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology

School/Center:  School of Health Professions

Office Location:  103 Forsyth Building

Phone:  617-373-5750

Fax:  617-373-8756

Email:  t.oneil@neu.edu

Education:  ScD, Boston University

MEd, Northeastern University

BS, Worcester State College

Certification:  CCC-SLP

Specializations:  Medical Speech-Language Pathology (children and adults)

Stuttering

Homelessness

Research:  Dysphagia

Family Homelessness and Literacy

Traumatic brain injury

Voice

Dr. Therese O'Neil-Pirozzi is highly interested in the integration of Speech Language Pathology theory and clinical practice with communication and/or swallowing impaired individuals across the lifespan. Her teaching is clinically based, thereby empowering students to apply knowledge learned in a particular area to individuals presenting with difficulties in that area. Her research focuses are all clinically motivated; for example, whether individual plus group therapy versus individual therapy alone facilitates significantly better functional outcomes in traumatically brain injured individuals; whether certain swallowing tests used with tracheostomized individuals reliably and validly measure what they are thought to measure. Her community service is driven by a desire to integrate personal social ethics and Speech-Language Pathology intervention skills; for example, over-seeing a weekly program whereby students majoring in SLP provide language stimulation to children residing in homeless shelters.

Public Service: 

Courses:  Clinical Management in Stuttering (graduate)

Clinical Procedures (graduate)

Counseling (graduate)

Dysphagia (graduate)

Neuropathologies

Seminar in Voice Disorders (graduate)

Speech Pathology II (undergraduate)

Publications:  1. "Homeopathic Treatment of Mild Traumatic

Brain Injury: A Randomized, Double-Blind,

Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial." EH Chapman,

RJ Weintraub, MM Wilburn, TM O'Neil-Pirozzi, E

Woo. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 1999;

(14)6:521-542.

2. Please Respect Patient Confidentiality." TM

O'Neil-Pirozzi. Contemporary Issues in Communication

Science and Disorders, accepted for publication in the

Spring 2001 issue.

3. "Cutoff Score on the Apathy Evaluation Scale in Subjects

with Traumatic Brain Injury." MB Glenn, D Burke, TM

O'Neil-Pirozzi, R Goldstein, L Jacob, J Kettell. Brain Injury,

accepted for publication in the August 2001 issue.

4. "Depression Among Outpatients with Traumatic Brain

Injury." MB Glenn, TM O'Neil-Pirozzi, R Goldstein, D Burke,

L Jacob. Brain Injury, accepted for publication in the August

2001 issue.

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