Speech-Language Pathologist
Private Practice, skilled nursing
Seattle, WA, United States
Michael Fraas earned his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, USA in 2003. Dr. Fraas has over 28 years of clinical and research experience, and 15 years of academic teaching experience, in speech pathology and communication disorders. His research has focused on the areas of cognitive rehabilitation, concussion in sport, cognitive-motor interference following stroke, return to work for persons with aphasia and cognitive-communication disorders, and narrative medicine-based approaches for meeting the needs of adults with acquired brain injury. Dr. Fraas is a member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) and the Brain Injury – Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group (BI-ISIG). 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; Shapiro-Rosenbaum et al., ongoing) and other diagnoses (Langenbahn, Sacks-Zimmerman, 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 & Textbook (CRM) and has presented CRM workshops nationally and internationally. Dr. Fraas is also a member of the ACRM Athlete Development and Sports Rehabilitation Networking Group. He and colleagues have presented their Athlete Development Model for youth involved in sport at the ACRM annual conference (Massingale et al., 2019; Fraas et al., 2020; Guernon et al., 2022; Wethe et al., 2023; Fraas et al., 2025). Dr. Fraas lives in Seattle, WA and works in private practice.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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