Katlyn Nickels, M.S., is a doctoral candidate in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. She received her bachelor's degree in Communication Science and Disorders from Florida State University and her master's degree in Communication Disorders from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Katlyn is training in the Aphasia Research Project under the direction of her primary mentor, Dr. Pélagie Beeson. She is also a collaborator and Research Assistant in the Language and Neuroimaging Research Laboratory with Dr. Aneta Kielar. Katlyn's primary research interests include the nature and treatment of neurogenic communication disorders in adults with a focus on the primary progressive aphasia (PPA) syndrome. Specifically, she studies the cognitive-linguistic processes that support language and explores how these processes can inform treatment development and outcomes for PPA. Katlyn's dissertation project is focused on understanding the therapeutic potency of phonological intervention on spoken and written language performance in individuals with the logopenic and nonfluent/agrammatic variants of PPA.

Katlyn will complete her Certificate in College Teaching from the University of Arizona in Fall 2022. As a graduate teaching assistant, she co-instructs an undergraduate survey class in the field of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.