Nancy Helm-Estabrooks

Helm-Estabrooks received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Hearing Therapy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Master of Education in Speech-Language Pathology at Northeastern University, and her Doctor of Science degree at Boston University.{{Cite web |title=Western Carolina University |url=https://www.wcu.edu/learn/departments-schools-colleges/HHS/csd/csd-faculty/nancy-helm-estabrooks.aspx |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=Nancy Helm-Estabrooks |language=en}}

Helms-Estabrooks has worked at the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center and Boston University School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Arizona. As of 2022, she is a professor emerita and the former Brewer-Smith Distinguished Chair in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at Western Carolina University.

Helms-Estabrooks was a co-founder of Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS),{{cite web |date=June 17, 2013 |title=Spotlight on a member Nancy Helm-Estabrook, Ph.D. |url=https://www.ancds.org/assets/docs/Newsletter/ancds%202013%20spring%20%20newsletter%20final.pdf}} pages 11-13 and served as president from 2003 until 2004.{{Cite web |last=Reyes |first=Erin |title=ANCDS Past Presidents |url=https://www.ancds.org/ancds-past-presidents |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=www.ancds.org |language=en-us}}

Helm-Estabrooks is a researcher and speech-language pathologist (SLP) specializing in the design and application of widely used diagnostic. She developed, in collaboration with behavioral neurologist Martin Albert and Robert Sparks, a structured rehabilitation program for a type of nonfluent aphasia utilizing intoned phrases to facilitate speech and language production. This program became known as Melodic Intonation Therapy.{{Cite journal |last1=Sparks |first1=Robert |last2=Helm |first2=Nancy |last3=Albert |first3=Martin |date=1974-12-01 |title=Aphasia Rehabilitation Resulting from Melodic Intonation Therapy |journal=Cortex |language=en |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=303–316 |doi=10.1016/S0010-9452(74)80024-9 |pmid=4452250 |issn=0010-9452|doi-access=free }}{{Cite web |date=8 January 2019 |title=Singing Your Way Past Stroke with Melodic Intonation Therapy |url=https://brainworldmagazine.com/sing-your-way-past-stroke-with-melodic-intonation-therapy/}} She subsequently designed and published programs and materials for treating aphasia symptoms and cognitive impairments.{{Cite book |last1=Helm-Estabrooks |first1=Nancy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=adYLAQAAMAAJ&q=nancy+helm-estabrooks |title=Manual of Aphasia and Aphasia Therapy |last2=Albert |first2=Martin L. |date=2004 |publisher=Pro-Ed |isbn=978-0-89079-963-5 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37362356 |title=Approaches to the treatment of aphasia |date=1998 |publisher=Singular Pub. Group |others=Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Audrey L. Holland |isbn=1-56593-841-0 |location=San Diego |oclc=37362356}}

Helm-Estabrooks received Honors of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) in 2000,{{Cite journal |date=2000-12-01 |title=Interview With Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Recipient of the 2000 Honors of the Association |url=https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/nnsld10.4.3 |journal=Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=3–4 |doi=10.1044/nnsld10.4.3|url-access=subscription }} and is a 2004 fellow of ASHA.{{Cite web |title=Fellowship of the Association Recipients |url=https://www.asha.org/about/awards/fellowship-of-the-association-recipients/ |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=American Speech-Language-Hearing Association}} In 2005 she received Honors of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences.{{Cite web |title=Honorees |url=https://www.ancds.org/honors-of-the-ancds |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=www.ancds.org}} She received the Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award from the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation in 2012,{{Cite web |title=Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award recipients prior to 2017 |url=https://www.ashfoundation.org/siteassets/recipients/files/kleffner-recipients.pdf |website=American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation}} and the Edith F. Kaplan Award from the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society.{{Cite web |title=Edith Kaplan Award - Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society |url=https://mns.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=41215&module_id=419340 |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=mns.clubexpress.com}}

• {{Cite journal |last=Helm-Estabrooks |first=Nancy |date=2002-03-01 |title=Cognition and aphasia: a discussion and a study |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021992402000631 |journal=Journal of Communication Disorders |language=en |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=171–186 |doi=10.1016/S0021-9924(02)00063-1 |pmid=12036150 |issn=0021-9924|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Helm-Estabrooks |first1=Nancy |last2=Fitzpatrick |first2=Patricia M. |last3=Barresi |first3=Barbara |date=1982-11-01 |title=Visual Action Therapy for Global Aphasia |url=https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/jshd.4704.385 |journal=Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=385–389 |doi=10.1044/jshd.4704.385|pmid=6194372 |url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Naeser |first1=M A |last2=Alexander |first2=M P |last3=Helm-Estabrooks |first3=N |last4=Levine |first4=H L |last5=Laughlin |first5=S A |last6=Geschwind |first6=N |date=1982-01-01 |title=Aphasia with predominantly subcortical lesion sites: description of three capsular/putaminal aphasia syndromes |url=https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1982.00510130004002 |journal=Archives of Neurology |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=2–14 |doi=10.1001/archneur.1982.00510130004002 |issn=1538-3687 |pmid=6976780|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite book |last=Helm-Estabrooks |first=Nancy |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/813301115 |title=Manual of aphasia and aphasia therapy |date=2014 |publisher=PRO-ED, an international publisher |others=Martin L. Albert, Marjorie Nicholas |isbn=978-1-4164-0549-8 |edition=3rd |location=Austin, Texas |oclc=813301115}}

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