Victoria Diedrichs

Victoria Diedrichs, PhD, CCC-SLP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University. Her research program focuses on identifying the neural correlates of language, aphasia, and its recovery as well as maximizing treatment outcomes through delivery methods and precision medicine. Dr. Diedrichs has used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to examine neural correlates of recovery and has explored the effects of treatment delivery parameters on behavioral outcomes. She is especially interested in exploring how the neural correlates of recovery and optimal interventions to promote neuroplasticity may differ depending on unique personal characteristics including lesion location, aphasia severity, and cognitive skills.

Dr. Diedrichs is a certified speech-language pathologist with experience in skilled-nursing and inpatient rehabilitation settings. She received her BA with a major in Spanish and minor in Neuroscience from Grinnell College, MA in Speech, Language, and Hearing Science from Temple University, and PhD in Speech and Hearing Science from The Ohio State University. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. 

Acquired Language Disorders, Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of CSD

Aphasia recovery, neuroplasticity, treatment research, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)