HESP Student Researchers

HESP undergraduate and graduate students have many opportunties to be involved in research, both in laboratories of our faculty on campus and at off-campus sites such as the NIH.

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Recent Student Publications:

Fitzgibbons, P., Gordon-Salant, S., & Barrett, J. (2007). Age-related differences in discrimination of an interval separating onsets of successive tone bursts as a function of interval duration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122, 458-466.

Fitzgibbons, P., Gordon-Salant, S., & Friedman, S. (2006). Aging and temporal order recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 991-999.

Gordon-Salant, S., Fitzgibbons, P., & Friedman, S. Recognition of time-expanded speech by young and elderly listeners with normal hearing and mild-to-moderate hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (in press).

Gordon-Salant, S., Smith, E.W., McAlister, E.C., Fitzgerald, T.S., & Dooling, R. OpenDP: A new research tool for measuring distortion product otoacoustic emissions. Ear and Hearing (in review).

Gordon-Salant, S. Yeni-Komshian, G., Fitzgibbons, P., & Barrett, J. (2006). Age-related differences in identification and discrimination of temporal cues in speech segments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 2455-2466.

Madeo, A., Pryor, S., Brewer, C., Zalewski, C., King, K., Butman, J., Park, H., et al. (2006) Pendred Syndrome. Seminars in Hearing, 27, 3, 160-170.

Morell, R. J., Brewer, C. C., Ge, D., Snieder, H., Zalewski, C. K., King, K. A., Drayna, D., & Friedman, T. B. (2007). A twin study of auditory processing indicates that dichotic listening ability is a strongly heritable trait. Human Genetics, 122, 103-11.

Recent Presentations by HESP Students:

Bienstick, J., Strekas, A., Riffanacht, A., Weber, D., Berl, M., Gaillard. W.D., and Ratner, NB.. (2007, November). Non-specific terminology in the narratives of children with epilepsy. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Boston.

Block, K., Formby, C., Gordon-Salant, S., & Hawley, M. (2006). Processing of speech in complex listening environments by individuals with obscure auditory dysfunction. American Academy of Audiology, April.

Block, K., Gordon-Salant, S., Hawley, M., & Formby, C. (2006). Processing of speech in complex listening environments by individuals with obscure auditory dysfunction. Acoustical Society of America, May.

Brewer, C., Zalewski, C., Kim, J., Segar, A., King, K. & Goldbach-Mansky, R. (2005). Auditory phenotype of neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease. Poster session presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Washington, DC.

Ferruggiaro, A., King, K., Zalewski, C., Butman, J., Griffith, A., Brewer, C. (2006) Progression of hearing loss in individuals with enlarged vestibular aqueducts. Poster session presented at the National Institutes of Health Summer Poster Series, Bethesda, MD.

Fitzgerald, T., & Merkison, M. (2007). DPOAE Mechanisms and the estimation of hearing thresholds. Abstracts of the Thirtieth Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, p. 177.

Fitzgibbons, P., Gordon-Salant, S. & Barrett, J. (2007). Discrimination of temporal intervals by young and elderly listeners. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February.

Fitzgibbons, P., Gordon-Salant, S., & Friedman, S. (2005). Aging and temporal order recognition. ARO, Midwinter Meeting, New Orleans, February.

Gordon-Salant, S., Yeni-Komshian, G., Fitzgibbons, P., & Barrett, J. (2007). Age effects on identification of temporal cues in speech segments. American Auditory Society, March.

Gordon-Salant, S., Yeni-Komshian, G., Fitzgibbons, P., & Barrett, J. (2006). Age-related differences in identification and discrimination of temporal cues in speech segments. ARO, Midwinter Meeting, Baltimore, February.

Gutowski, L., Hill, M., Ratner, N. B. & Newman, R.S. (2004). Relationships between early infant speech segmentation skills and later narrative ability. Annual Convention of the American Speech and Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA. click here to view PowerPoint presentation

Haszko, S. (2006). Emotion & prosody: Examining infants' ability to match prosodic variation with the facial expressions of surprise and happiness. Presentation at the University of Maryland Undergraduate Research Day.

Hawley, M. Sherlock, L., Gold, S., Segar, A., Gmitter, C., Cannavo, J. & Formby, C. (2007). Intervention for restricted dynamic range and reduced sound tolerance. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 3120.

Heinlen, K., Hernandez, M., German, D. & Newman, R.S. (2004). 'What do you call that?' Effects of menopause on word-finding ability. Poster presented at the Showcasing Generontology Scholarship at the University of Maryland Conference, April 23, 2003.

King, K., Makishima, T., Zalewski, C., Bakalov, V., Griffith, A., Bondy, C., & Brewer, C. (2006). Auditory phenotype and karyotype of Turner syndrome. Poster session presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Minneapolis, MN. (Recipient of the James Jerger Award for Excellence in Student Research in Audiology)

King, K., Zalewski, C., Schvartz, K., Yanjanin, N., Porter, F., & Brewer, C. (2007). Auditory phenotype in Niemann-Pick Type C. The Bulletin of the American Auditory Society, 32, 48.

King, L., Strekas, A., Newman, R.S. & Ratner, N.B (2006, November). Developmental effects of lexical factors on confrontational-naming accuracy and speed. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Miami.

King, L., Strekas, A., Weber, D., Berl, M., Gaillard, W. & Ratner, N.B. (2006, November). Expressive language skills of children with recent-onset epilepsy. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Miami.

McAlister, E., Gordon-Salant, S., & Fitzgerald, T. (2007). DPOAE suppression using ipsilateral forward maskers of varying bandwidth. The Bulletin of the American Auditory Society, 32, 46.

Morell, R., Brewer, C., Zalewski, C., Mastroianni, M, Drayna, D., Laws, K., Segar, A. & Friedman, T. (2004). An estimate of heritibility of auditory processing skills. Midwinter Research Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Abstract 1058, 141.

Roberts, C. M., Fitzgerald, T., Wilson, M., Zalewski, C., Goldbach-Mansky, R., & Brewer, C. (2007). The impact of rheumatoid arthritis on middle ear function. The Bulletin of the American Auditory Society, 32, 38.

Schvartz, K.C. and Chatterjee, M. (2005) The Relative Loudness of One, Two and Three Channel Stimuli in Cochlear Implant Listeners. 2005 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, July 30 - August 4, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA .

Schvartz, K., Chatterjee, M., & Gordon-Salant, S. (2007). Effects of aging on the recognition of spectrally degraded speech. Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe.

Segar, A., Kim, H.J., Zalewski, C., Goldbach-Mansky, R., Jones, D.N., Gelabert, J.J. & Brewer, C. (2004). Audiology findings in neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease. NIH Summer Research Program, Poster 433, 44.

Smith, E., Gordon-Salant, S., McAlister, E., & Dooling, R. (2005). OpenDP: A DPOAE
System with specifiable stimulus parameters. ARO, Midwinter Meeting, New Orleans, February.

Strekas, A., Bienstock, J.A., Riffanacht, A., Weber,D., Berl, M.,Gaillard, W.D., and Ratner, N.B. (2007, November). The narrative abilities of children with localization-related epilepsy. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Boston.

Strekas, A., King, L., Weber, D., Berl, M., Gaillard, W. & Ratner, N.B. (2006, November). An investigation of chronic epilepsy in children: language profiles. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Miami.

Strekas, A., King, L., Weber, D., Berl, M., Gaillard, W. & Ratner, N.B. (2006, November). Language function in epilepsy: effects of hemispheric focus and chronicity. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Miami.

Summer Research Initiative

Student Participant(s)	Topic	Year	Faculty Advisor(s)
Carls, Sarah (St. Louis University)	Listening to speech in fluctuating noise	2007	Dr. Monita Chatterjee
Akrie, Ashley (North Caroline A&T) James, Keena (Hampton)	Speech rate and fluency characteristics of children with recent onset and chronic epilepsy	2006	Dr. Nan Bernstein- Ratner
McAdoo, Amanda (Indiana University)	Pay attention! Testing toddlers' abilities to follow directions in background noise	2005	Dr. Rochelle Newman
Lugo, Mirza (Florida State University) Fisher, Jamie (Tennessee State University)	The use of narratives to judge Spanish-English-speaking bilingual children’s language competence	2004	Dr. Nan Bernstein-Ratner
Matthews, Jairus-Joaquin (Tennessee State University) Ichile, Iyelli (Howard University)	Mothers' and Fathers' Child-addressed Speech Varies by Race and SES (ASHA PowerPoint presentation)	2003	Dr. Nan Bernstein-Ratner & Dr. Rochelle Newman
Knebel, Micaela (Arizona State University)	Consonant production in infant-directed speech	2002	Dr. Rochelle Newman

NACS Summer Internship Program

Student Participant(s)	Topic	Year	Faculty Advisor(s)
Grapin, Sally (Brown University)	Investigating the role of speaking rate in children's ability to listen in noise	2007	Dr. Rochelle Newman
Odukoya, Abimbola("Abi", University of Maryland)	Untangling the cobwebs: The search to find the desired word	2005	Dr. Rochelle Newman