Shilpa Shamapant

Shilpa Shamapant is a affiliate faculty of neurology at Dell Medical School. She is also president and co-founder of Austin Speech Labs, a nonprofit dedicated to providing affordable intensive speech, language and cognitive therapy. Shamapant specializes in working with young and elderly clients who have aphasia, apraxia and cognitive impairments due to brain injury. She and her team design and develop treatment protocols to improve word finding and reading for people recovering from stroke. Studies including intensive communication therapy and phonology to improve single word reading and picture naming in acute and chronic aphasia were presented at the International Stroke Conference, the American Speech and Hearing Conference and the Texas Speech and Hearing Conference.

Shamapant trains and supervises clinical fellows and graduate and undergraduate interns in the communication sciences and disorders and nursing programs. She collaborates with stroke experts across the country to understand language recovery and advance stroke research to reduce length of recovery time. Shamapant believes that language defines humans and long-term intensive speech therapy promotes language recovery after a stroke.