Dr. Raymer is a professor and chair of the Department of Communication Disorders & Special Education at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, having joined the faculty in 1996. For the past 30 years her research has examined the neural and cognitive mechanisms implicated in disorders of language and skilled limb movements and means to promote optimal rehabilitation of these disorders in individuals with stroke-induced aphasia, dysgraphia and limb apraxia. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders and by the Department of Defense. She has published more than 75 papers and chapters and has given hundreds of talks nationally and internationally on her research. She is president of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences and is a member of the Aphasia Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in recognition of her research and service to the profession, and is former Coordinator of ASHA Special Interest Group 2, Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Communication Disorders.