Overview
Dr. Rowe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the Director of the ASCENT Lab (Advancing Speech Communication through Engineering, Neuroscience, and Technology). She received her PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences from the MGH Institute of Health Professions and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Speech Neuroscience at Boston University.
Dr. Rowe’s interests lie in using multidisciplinary approaches and multimodal measures (e.g., neurological, physiological, behavioral) to advance the field of personalized medicine for speech motor-impaired populations, with a particular focus on adults who stutter and individuals with neurodegenerative conditions. Her primary research aims are to (1) improve differential diagnosis through condition-specific biomarkers and (2) contribute to the development of predictive tools for communication prognosis and treatment outcomes. Through these aims, her research seeks to inform earlier diagnoses, clearer prognoses, and more personalized and effective interventions for individuals with speech motor disorders.
Research Interests
Speech motor control, acoustics, neurodegenerative conditions, stuttering, neuroimaging
Selected Publications
Rowe, H.P., Tourville, J.A., Nieto-Castanon, A., Garnett, E.O., Chow, H.M., Chang, C.-E., & Guenther, F. (2024). Evidence for planning and motor subtypes of stuttering based on resting state functional connectivity. Brain and Language, 253, 105417.
Rowe, H.P., Gochyyev, P., Lammert, A.C., Lowit, A., Spencer, K.A., Dickerson, B.C., Berry, J., & Green, J.R. (2022). The efficacy of acoustic-based articulatory phenotyping for characterizing and classifying divergent neurodegenerative diseases. Journal of Neural Transmission, 129, 1487-1511.
Rowe, H.P., Shellikeri, S., Yunusova, Y., Chenausky, K., & Green, J.R. (2022). Quantifying articulatory impairments in neurodegenerative motor diseases: A scoping review and meta-analysis of interpretable acoustic features. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(4), 486-499.
Rowe, H.P., Gutz, S.E., Maffei, M.F., Tomanek, K., & Green, J.R. (2022). Characterizing dysarthria diversity for automatic speech recognition: A clinical perspective. Frontiers in Computer Science (Perspectives in Human-Media Interaction), 4, 1-8.
Rowe, H.P., Stipancic, K.L., Lammert, A.C., & Green, J.R. (2021). Validation of an acoustic-based framework of speech motor control: Assessing criterion and construct validity using kinematic and perceptual measures. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(12), 4718-4735.
Selected Public Service
ASHA 2023 Planning Committee – Motor Speech Disorders Across the Lifespan
Courses Taught
SLPA1103 Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanism
SLPA6303 Stuttering
