PRESENTER

Michael Fraas, PhD, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist
Independent Practice

BIO

Michael Fraas earned his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, USA in 2003. Dr. Fraas has 26 years of clinical and research experience in speech pathology and communication disorders. He is a member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) and serves on committees and task forces in the the Brain Injury – Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group (BI-ISIG) and the Stroke – Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group.

He is actively involved in several projects on the Cognitive Rehabilitation Task Force including the evidence-based systematic reviews of treatments for traumatic brain injury and stroke (Cicerone et al., 2011; 2019; Golden et al., ongoing) and the Cognitive Rehabilitation Care Partner Toolkit Project (Yi et al., ongoing).

Dr. Fraas serves as an author and faculty member of the Cognitive Rehabilitation Manual (CRM) (Eberle, Shapiro-Rosenbaum et al., 2022) and has presented CRM workshops nationally and internationally. Michael enjoys playing tennis, strumming his guitar, and cheffing up good eats.