Kimberly Meigh, PhD, CCC-SLP

Biography:

Dr. Meigh joined WVU in 2014. Her clinical expertise is in neurogenic communication disorders, including dysarthria, aphasia, right-hemisphere disorder, and cognitive-communication disorder secondary to dementia, as well as voice disorders. Dr. Meigh also provides gender affirmation voice therapy. She is the research director of the Speech Motor Control Lab, which explores speech motor representations through behavioral and kinematic studies. Dr. Meigh is a past recipient of the WVU Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award.  

Representative Scholarship: 

Meigh, K. & Kee*, E.P. (2020). Dissimilar phonemes create a contextual interference effect during a nonword repetition task. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 585745-585745. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.585745  

Meigh, K., Cobun, E.*, & Yunusova, Y. (2020). Phoneme and stress programming interact during nonword repetition learning. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(7), 2219-228. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00262 

Chawla, T.* & Meigh, K. (2020). Acoustics of retroflex sounds in Hindi and other languages. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 5, 726-728.  
https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_PERSP-19-00003 

Meigh, K., Shaiman, S., Tompkins, C. A., Verdolini-Abbott, K. & Nokes-Malach, T. (2018). What memory representation is acquired during nonword speech production learning? The influence of stimulus features and training modality on nonword encoding. Cogent Psychology, 5,1 https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2018.1493714.  

Meigh, K. (2017). A novel investigation of GMP theory: Syllable stress as a motor class variable. Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research, 60, 1685-1694. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-16-0247 

Yang, Y., Tompkins, C., Meigh, K., Prat, C. (2015). Voxel-based lesion symptom mapping of coarse coding and suppression deficits in right-hemisphere-damaged patients. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 24, S939-S952. https://doi.org/10.1044/2015_AJSLP-14-0149 

Blake, M. L., Tompkins, C. A., Scharp, V. L., Meigh, K., Wambaugh, J. (2015). Contextual constraint treatment for coarse coding deficit in adults with right hemisphere brain damage: Generalization to narrative discourse comprehension. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 25(1), 15-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2014.932290 

Teaching: 

CSAD 320: Speech Science 

CSAD 495: Independent Study - Neurobiology 

CSAD 496: Undergraduate Thesis 

CSAD 497: Research 

CSAD 622: Advanced Voice Disorders 

CSAD 626: Experimental Phonetics 

CSAD 630: Adult Neurogenic Communication Disorders 

CSAD 694A: Neurobiology (co-instructor) 

Current Service:

Dr. Meigh is current member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Special Interest Group 19 (Speech Science) Professional Development Committee. She is also an ad-hoc reviewer for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Topics in Language Disorders, and The International Journal of Aging and Human Development.  

Patient Care Information: 

 Medical Specialties

Dysarthria 

Aphasia 

Cognitive-communication disorder secondary to right-hemisphere disorder 

Cognitive-communication disorder secondary to dementia 

Muscle Tension Dysphonia 

Gender Affirmation Voice Therapy