The research in this laboratory focuses on the development of perception, discrimination, and understanding of speech both in typically developing young children and those who use hearing aids and/or cochlear implants.
The research in this laboratory focuses on the development of perception, discrimination, and understanding of speech both in typically developing young children and those who use hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. As is typical in our field, our work has both basic and applied aspects to it. Current projects of a more basic research nature include using a developmentally appropriate discrimination procedure for investigating the internal representation of speech in young children; and examining the development of speech sound discrimination in typically developing children and those who use hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. Our more applied research involves the development of an audiovisual speech recognition test for children with sensory aids, the Audiovisual-Lexical Neighborhood Sentence Test (AV-LNST); and the further development of a procedure to assess speech sound discrimination in toddlers.
Clincial Fellow in Audiology, Mayo Clinic - Rochester, 1999-2000
