Current Research

Projects

Completed Research Projects:

Pre-Dissertation Project 1: Disease-Specific Movement Characteristics of the Tongue and Jaw

Pre-Dissertation Project 2: Profiling Swallowing Safety and Physiology in People with Huntington’s Disease

Grant proposal development: Disease-Specific Articulatory Mechanisms of Speech Intelligibility Gains in Talkers with Dysarthria (prepared for NIH F31, not submitted)

Ongoing Research Projects:

Dissertation: Disease-Specific Articulatory Mechanisms in Talkers with Dysarthria

Collaborative Project: The Effect of Deutetrabenazine on Gait and Speech Function in Patients with Huntington’s Disease

Lab Project 1: Effects of Loud, Clear, and Slow Speech Cues on Articulatory Movements in Talkers with Huntington’s Disease

PUBLICATIONS

Raines, C. Clark, & Donohue, C. (March 2025). Profiling Swallowing Safety and Physiology in People with Huntington’s Disease. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 10.1111/nmo.70035

Raines, C. & Mefferd, A. (January 2025). Disease-Specific Movement Characteristics of the Tongue and Jaw. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00351

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Shiino, S., Kim, D., Slaughter, P., Hay, K., Raines, C., Durrough, C., Vaughn K., de Riesthal M., Mefferd A., & Brown, A. (2024, April). Impact of Deutetrabenazine on functional speech and gait dynamics in Huntington’s disease (P6-3.009). In Neurology (Vol. 102, No. 17_supplement_1, p. 5399). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Raines, C., Thies, T., Ding, A., & Mefferd, A. (2023). Aging Effects on Sentence-Length Velocity Distribution Characteristics of the Tongue and Jaw. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3982–3986). Guarant International.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Raines, C., Linstead, M.,Mefferd A. (2025, November 22^nd). Disease-Specific Inter-articulatory Timing Disruptions in Talkers with Dysarthria. Poster presentation, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Convention, Washington D.C.

Raines, C., Deldar, E., Riesthal M., Brown A., Mefferd A. (2025, November 22^nd). Does Medication Modulate Speech Cue Effects on Lip and Jaw Movements in Huntington’s Disease? Poster presentation, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Convention, Washington D.C.

Raines, C., Deldar, E., Riesthal M., Brown A., Mefferd A. (2025, September 27^th). Does Medication Modulate Speech Cue Effects on Lip and Jaw Movements in Huntington’s Disease? Poster presentation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Neurology Research Symposium, Nashville, TN.

Raines, C., Clark, M., Donohue, C. (2024, March 25^th). Profiling Swallowing Safety and Physiology in People with Huntington’s Disease. Poster session, Dysphagia Research Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Raines, C., Clark, M., Donohue, C. (2024, February 12^th). Profiling Swallowing Safety and Physiology in People with Huntington’s Disease. Poster session, Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum, Nashville, TN.

Raines, C., Clark, M., Donohue, C. (2024, December 6th). Discriminant Ability of the Eating Assessment Tool-10 (EAT-10) to Detect Aspiration in Individuals with Huntington’s Disease. Technical Platform Talk, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Convention, Seattle, WA.

Raines, C., Symonette, M., Shiino, S., Riesthal M., Tjaden K., Brown A., Mefferd A. (2024, December 5^th). Assessing Medication Effect on Speech in Huntington’s Disease: Comparing Audio-Only and Audio+Video Samples. Poster presentation, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Convention, Seattle, WA.

Raines C., Mefferd A. (2024, February 23^rd). Disease-Specific Movement Characteristics of the Tongue and Jaw. Poster presentation, Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital Motor Speech Conference. San Diego, CA.

Ding A., Raines C., Mefferd A. (2023, September 16^th). An Investigation of Speech Movement Characteristics of the Tongue Across Neurological Disorders. Poster presentation, 2023 Tennessee Association of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists Convention. Clarksville, TN.

Raines, C., Thies, T., Ding, A., Mefferd, A. (2023, August 7th). Aging Effects on Sentence-Length Velocity Distribution Characteristics of the Tongue and Jaw. Oral presentation, The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague, Czech Republic.

Kim D., Mefferd A., Hay K. R., Shiino S., Raines C., de Riesthal M., Brown A. (2023, June 12^th). Effects of Anti-Chorea Therapy on Speech in Huntington’s Disease. Poster presentation, 2023 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium. Boston, Massachusetts.

Raines, C., Kaipa, R. (2022, November 18th). Treatment for Enhancing Speech Intelligibility in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease. Poster presentation, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Kaipa, R. & Raines, C. (2022, September 30th). Treatment for Enhancing Speech Intelligibility in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease. Poster presentation, Oklahoma Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Embassy Suites by Hilton – 2501 Conference Drive, Norman, OK.