Research
The University of Maryland is a Carnegie Research-I institution. Our faculty
receive funding from the National Institutes of Health,
the National Science Foundation, and a number of private
foundations to carry out cutting-edge research. HESP faculty
have authored more than 100 books, chapters and articles
just in the past few years. Moreover, most of our faculty
are engaged in interdisciplinary research projects with
faculty in other parts of the campus.
Multi-faculty Research Projects
LEAP Research Project (Dr. Froma Roth, Colleen Worthington, and Dianne Handy, Investigators): Promoting Awareness of Sounds in
Speech (PASS) is a phonological awareness intervention program
designed specifically for preschool children with speech
and language impairments. It consists of three training
modules: Rhyming, Blending, and Segmentation, and is implemented
each semester with eligible children who attend LEAP by
a team of graduate and undergraduate students under the
direction of faculty.
Perceptual Precursors of Early Language Development (Dr. Nan Bernstein-Ratner and Dr. Rochelle Newman, Investigators): What
types of infant abilities might predict successful language
acquisition? Are there skills that, if not present during
infancy, suggest a child is at risk for language impairments
later in life? This study is performing language assessments
on children aged 4 - 6 who had participated in language
experiments while they were infants, to attempt to isolate
perceptual abilities that are predictive of successful language
acquisition, as well as those which appear to be deficient
in children with depressed language acquisition profiles. Affiliations
Our Department is also closely linked with a number
of interdisciplinary programs, providing our students with
a wide range of research and educational opportunities.
The program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS)
includes over 80 faculty from 14 departments, and offers
a wide range of classes
and seminars.
The Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of
Hearing (C-CEBH)
includes 11 faculty from 5 departments on campus and has
a close collaboration with researchers at the National Institute
on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
, such that these NIH researchers are available to serve
as co-mentors on research projects with UM faculty. For
more information on the NIH & C-CEBH partnership, click
here.
In addition to resources on campus, our central location
means our students have opportunities to collaborate with
researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
Walter
Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), and the University
of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. |
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