Research Associate - Speech-Language Pathologist
Craig Hospital
Jody Newman, MA, CCC-SLP Is a speech-language pathologist with over 35 years of experience working with individuals with mild, moderate and severe brain injury, as a clinician, researcher and program developer. She has presented at numerous national and regional brain injury conferences in the areas of social competence group treatment after brain injury, contextualized cognitive treatment, and goal setting for individuals with brain injury. Since 1997 she has worked at Craig Hospital, first in the Speech-Language Department, and for over 20 years in the Research Department as a co-investigator, study coordinator and research clinician. Ms. Newman is the co-author of Group Interactive Structured Treatment – GIST: For Social Competence and was a co-investigator on a research study showing the efficacy of the GIST intervention. In addition, she was a co-investigator on an RCT studying a health and wellness intervention for individuals after TBI and was a co-developer of the intervention.
She has served as study coordinator on a number of TBI inpatient studies investigating sleep and TBI including a pilot study examining the feasibility of measuring sleep and wake cycles in adults with TBI on an inpatient rehabilitation unit, an RCT with the goal of piloting a sleep hygiene protocol during the early phase of inpatient rehabilitation after TBI and a multi-site study comparing methods of identifying sleep apnea for inpatients post-TBI. Ms. Newman is a past member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
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