HESP Faculty and Staff
Faculty/Staff Listing
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Our faculty have received numerous honors and awards in recognition of their commitment to excellence in the areas of research, teaching, and service:
Research
- Congratulations to Assistant Professor Wei Tian who was awarded a 2010 Clinical Research Grant to study "Randomized Controlled Speech Outcome Study of Two Techniques in Primary Palatal Repair" by the ASHA Foundation!
- Congratulations to HESP faculty Maria Dixon and Arpana Lingaraj, recipients of the 2009-2010 Research Grant in Clinical Supervision and Clinical Administration from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Special Interest Division 11 (Administration and Supervision) for their proposal "A Real-time Supervisory Approach Using Technology". The grant will be used to determine whether providing real time feedback during diagnostic supervision improves clinician performance and perception of efficacy of learning.
- Congratulations to Dr. Chatterjee, who was named one of the 2009 University Research Leaders!
- Dr. Monita Chatterjee is now on the Editorial Board of Trends in Amplification, and also
Section Editor (Cochlear Implants) for Ear and Hearing!
- Dr. Wei Tian was recently awarded a grant by the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium (CTSA) at NIH for a project entitled, “MRI of velopharyngeal structures in children with cleft palate.” The award will fund MRI scans and training for children (equivalent of $30,000). The goal of the project is to investigate the structural and functional factors related to velopharyngeal inadequacy in children with repaired cleft palate, which will shed light on the causes of failed velopharyngeal mechanism post cleft repair and help to tailor treatment for these difficulty cases. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Redett at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Dr. Shiffler at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
- Dr. Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah received the 2008 Research Grant for New Investigators from the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation for her project entitled "Retrieval of action names in aphasia: An investigation of the Embodied Cognition Framework" This $5000 grant is given to new scientists who have earned their latest degree in communication sciences within the last 5 years to pursue research in audiology or speech-language pathology.
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Dr. Monita Chatterjee has received a three-year grant (direct costs: $637,500, total costs: $956,000) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH NIDCD R01 DC 004786) titled "Complex Auditory Processing With Cochlear Implants."
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Dr. Froma P. Roth (Principal Investigator) and colleagues were recently awarded a three-year $2.5 million dollar Early Reading First Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of the project, "Partnering for Literacy: A Multi-Disciplinary Program for Emergent Literacy and Early Reading Success", is to promote emergent literacy and oral language skills of 3- and 4-year-old preschool children who are at risk for learning to read when they enter first grade. The University of Maryland project will be in collaboration with three public charter schools in Washington D.C.: Bridges Public Charter School, Tri-Community Public Charter School, and E. L. Haynes Public Charter School.
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Dr. Rochelle Newman and Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner were recently awarded $375,000 over three years by the National Science Foundation for a project entitled, "Speech and Nonspeech Predictors of Later Language Development".
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Dr. Newman also has an ongoing NSF grant ($238,075 for 2 years) for her project "Development of Infant Stream Segregation: The Interplay Between Perception & Cognition".
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Teaching
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Vivian Sisskin was the host of a live online discussion for the Washington Post. The discussion focused on advice and treatment strategies for parents who have children that stutter. She gave detailed answers to 18 questions during the discussion. The questions ranged from adolescents who continue to stutter despite therapy to children with less common forms of stuttering where they elongate the first syllable of a word instead of repeating it. Kate Skinker received a 2005 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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Dr. Froma Roth has twice received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the campus Center for Teaching Excellence ( CTE).
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- Vivian Siskin received a 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Behavioral and Social Scienes.
Service
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Dr. Bernstein Ratner is an editor for Seminars in Speech and Language and the Journal of Fluency Disorders. She is a consultant on program grants for the NIH and NSF.
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Dr. Gordon-Salant has served as the editor of the Hearing section for the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, a top journal in the field.
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Dr. Gordon-Salant was also asked to serve as a member of the National Academy's Institute of Medicine, "Committee on Medical Evaluation of Veterans for Disability Compensation."
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Dr. Roth is president-elect of the Division of Communicative Disorders and Deafness of the Council for Exceptional Children.
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- Dr. Newman is an editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
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Lynn Perlroth has received the 2001 Community Advocacy Award from Montgomery County for her work in assisting senior citizens with hearing losses through Aural Rehabilitation outreach classes.
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Vivian Sisskin serves as Coordinator of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Special Interest Division 4, Fluency and Fluency Disorders.
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