Dana Farias, M.S., C.C.C.-S.L.P.

Dana Farias graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. He returned to graduate school at North Texas University where he received a Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology.  Dana has worked at UC Davis Health since 2001 and supervises acute, rehab and outpatient speech therapy services. He is a part-time faculty/lecturer at California State University, Sacramento. His primary areas of research include aphasia and apraxia of speech and he has presented his research internationally.

Title: Chief, Speech Language Pathology —Department of Physical Rehabilitation and Medicine

Undergraduate Education: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, B.A.

Graduate Education: North Texas University, Denton, TX, M.S.

Internships: Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Children’s Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX

Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation, Dallas, TX

Professional Memberships  

Medical Speech-Language Pathology Council of California

Academy of Aphasia

ASHA Division 2, Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders

American Speech, Language and Hearing Association


Publications:
Farias D, Davis CH, Wilson SM. (2014) Treating apraxia of speech with an implicit protocol that activates speech motor areas via inner speech. Aphasiology. 1;28(5):515-532


Davis, C, Farias, D. & Baynes, K.  (2009)  Implicit Phoneme Manipulation for the Treatment of Apraxia of Speech with co-occurring Aphasia. Aphasiology, 23:4, 503-528


Harrington, G., Farias, D., Davis, C.  (2009).  The Neural Basis for Simulated Drawing and the Semantic Implications. Cortex, 45(3): 386-93


Harrington, G., Farias, D., Davis, C., & Buonocore, M.  (2007).   A Comparison of the Neural Basis for Imagined Writing and Drawing.  Human Brain Mapping Vol.28.  450-459


Chand, V.,  Orgun, O, Davis, C., Farias, D, Baynes, K (2007)  Transition of errors in response to implicit treatment in apraxia: An acoustic analysis Brain and Language, 103(1), 215-216


Orgun, O., Chand, V., Farias, D., Davis, C., & Baynes, K. (2007) Perception of speech errors: native perception versus formal acoustic analysis. Brain Impairment, 8(2), 217


Davis, C., Farias, D., Baynes, K., Chand, V., & Orgun, O. (2007) Is there a role for mental practice in speech rehabilitation? Brain Impairment, 8(2),198


Farias, D., Davis, C., & Harrington, G. (2006) Drawing: Its contribution to naming in aphasia.   Brain and Language, 97, 53-63


C. Davis, D. Farias, A. Bord, & K. Baynes (2006).  An implicit phonological intervention in an individual with apraxia of speech:  A preliminary analysis. Brain and Language. Vol. 99 14-15.


Davis, C.H., Farias, D. & Baynes, K. (2005) Understanding the effects of cuing strategies through error analysis. Brain and Language, 95, 183-184


Farias, D. & Davis, C. (2004) The relatedness of drawing quality and naming in aphasia. Brain Impairment, 5, 185


Harrington, G., Farias, D. & Davis, C.  (2004) Neural correlates of semantic drawing: an fmri study. Brain Impairment, 5, 178.


Lu, F.L., Daniloff, R.G., Kao, K.T., & Farias, D.R .  (1999) Longitudinal changes in                                                                                                                                                                                                          phonatory and articulatory characteristics of speech in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Ph. Dejonckere & H.F.M. Peters (Eds.), Communication and Its Disorders: Vol. 2. A science in progress. The Netherlands: Nijmegen University Press