Brooke Hallowell, PhD, CCC-SLP

Communication for life participation

Together, harnessing the power of neuroplasticity and resilience to help you live most fully

Expertise

Services

Local and global consulting, mentoring, interactive workshops, keynote addresses, and research collaboration
Evidence-informed and culturally attuned advisement on assessment, treatment, and life plans
Intensive on-site personalized consultation where you - and those you love - live, work, study, and connect
Individual, couples, and family counseling
Care partner training
Mentoring for clinical excellence
Academic and clinical program development
Applied improvisation programming and coaching

Person-centered, strengths-based, inclusive consultation to support people with brain-based communication disorders, including:

Aphasia
Primary progressive aphasia
Suspected age-related communication challenges
Communication challenges related to:
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
- Dementia
- Brain tumors
- Glucose regulation/diabetes
Communication anxiety
Selective mutism

Books

Second edition (2023) available now

“As we have come to expect from Dr. Hallowell, this is a thoroughly researched book, and an extremely important contribution to the literature on neurogenic communication disorders. Our profession is much the richer for it!”

—Audrey Holland, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, Regents’ Professor Emerita of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizona

“The best and most comprehensive book on aphasia ever published.”

—Darlene Williamson, MA, CCC-SLP, President of the National Aphasia Association and Founder of the Stroke Comeback Center

Third edition coming soon

About Brooke Hallowell

Brooke Hallowell, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow and Honors, is President of Brain Empowerment, LLC, a global clinical consulting and research entity fostering empowering approaches to aphasia, dementia, and age-related aspects of communication and other communication challenges. She also serves as Director of Research for Aphasia Recovery Connection, Consulting Editor for Plural Publishing, a member of the Board of Directors for Aphasia Access, a member of the Professional Advisory Council for the National Aphasia Association, a representative to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s World Rehabilitation Alliance, and an active WHO consultant.

Through over 25 years of higher education, healthcare, and nonprofit leadership, she has served as president of a national professional organization, dean, founding director of three large multi-campus interdisciplinary institutes, school director, administrator of two revenue-generating clinics, and leader of many multinational projects and community-based programs.

Hallowell formerly served as dean and professor at Springfield College, professor at Ohio University, and President of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She is the author of Aphasia and other acquired neurogenic language disorders: A guide for clinical excellence, 14 books published by the National Science Foundation, and over 175 articles and book chapters. A pioneer in using eyetracking and pupillometry to study cognition and language, she holds US and international patents on related technology.

A deep personal history with selective mutism shapes her clinical insights. Fortifying her scientific expertise, she is a practitioner of relationship empowerment, appreciative inquiry, restorative practices, hypnosis, and applied improvisation.

Hallowell’s expertise in global partnerships supports collaborative leadership and consulting highlighting ethics and anticoloniality, especially in underserved regions. She has held appointments China, Korea, Malaysia, and Honduras and engaged in academic collaboration in Brazil, Cambodia, Honduras, India, Iran, the Philippines, Russia, Thailand, and Vietnam. She led the first-ever Global Summit on Higher Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders and chaired the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA’s) committee on ethics in global engagement and ASHA’s International Issues Board.