Anastasia (Stacie) Raymer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Professor and Chair of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the Department of Communication Disorders & Special Education at Old Dominion University. She received her B.S.Ed. (1980) in Communication Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed both her M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1992) in Speech Pathology at the University of Florida. For more than 40 years, her research has examined means to optimize rehabilitation outcomes for impairments of communication and limb praxis in individuals recovering from stroke. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders) and the Dept. of Defense. She has published more than 100 papers and chapters, edited a book, and has given hundreds of talks nationally and internationally on her research. Dr. Raymer is past president of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, past coordinator of Special Interest Group 2: Neurophysiology and Neurologic Communication Disorders of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and holds the title of ASHA Fellow. She has resided in Virginia for more than 25 years and has been active in the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia throughout that time. She is the wife of 30 year U.S. Navy veteran Captain Ron Raymer and proud mother of two grown children, Andrea and Jared.