Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) Laboratory
Drs. Anna Nabelek and Sam Burchfield
- Acceptance of background noise in all types of hearing aid users
- Effects of directional microphones and binaural hearing aid use on acceptance of background in hearing aid users
- Using technology pharmacology to influence acceptance of background noise in individuals with ADHD/ADD
Audiology Laboratory
Dr. James W. Thelin
- Hearing and Communication in CHARGE
Syndrome
- Measurement of Averaged Acoustic
Reflex Thresholds
- Behavioral Assessment of Hearing for
Medical-Legal Purposes
Child Language Laboratory
Dr. Lori Swanson
- Innovative language programming for
exceptional children
- Development of implicit phonology
- Play and language of preschool
children
Child Speech Disorders Laboratory
Dr. Peter Flipsen, Jr.
- Development of intelligible speech in children
with cochlear implantsVowel acoustics in children with cochlear
implantsSpeech intelligibility measurement in childrenMeasures of severity in children with delayed
speechAcoustic phenotype markers in speech delay
- Speech and language development in children
learning Appalachian English
Hearing Instrument Laboratory
Dr. Patrick Plyler
- Impact of high Hz amplification on
subjective and objective benefit in hearing instrument usersEffects of expansion on subjective and
objective benefit in hearing instrument users
- Effects of expansion time constants on
subjective and objective benefit in hearing instrument users.
Human Auditory Physiology Laboratory
Dr. Ashley W. Harkrider
- Actions of Nicotine in the Auditory SystemA New Look at Acoustic Reflex Thresholds Contributions to evoked otoacoustic emission (EOAE) variability in responses from the normal-hearing population Sequential Effects of Two Child Language Interventions
- Contributions to Individual Variability in Speech Performance in Noise
Knoxville Early
Language, Literacy, and Culture Project (KnELLC)
Dr. RaMonda Horton-Ikard
- Relationship between language delay, late-talker status, and specific language impairment.
- Early identification of language learning disabilities.
- Language and Literacy of Children from Diverse Backgrounds
- Outreach projects include the Annual Speech, Language, and Hearing Screen Initiative for daycares in the Knox County area.
Neurogenic Language Disorders, Cognition, and Bilingualism Laboratory
Dr. Maria L. Muñoz
- Practiced scripts in facilitating
functional communication in individuals with non-fluent aphasia.
- Models of cognitive resource
allocation to understand differential language processing associated
with levels of English proficiency in bilingual speakers who have
acquired English as a second language.
Psychoacoustics Laboratory
Dr. Mark Hedrick
- Segregation of
Concurrent Vowels by Listeners with Normal Hearing and with Hearing
LossThe use of nicotine as
a tool to study auditory function, “Actions of Nicotine in the
Auditory SystemImplementing research
with Peter Flipsen on “A longitudinal investigation of the development
of speech skills in children with cochlear implantsLongitudinal study of
Fast ForWord treatment effects on reading ability of poor readers,
8-10 years of age.Vowel perception in
noise and reverberation with hearing and hearing impaired individuals.
- Similar study with
consonants in noise and reverberation with hearing and hearing
impaired individuals.
Speech Perception and
Production Laboratory
Dr. Deborah Von Hapsburg Verbotonal Research Laboratory
Dr. Carl Asp
Voice and Speech Science Laboratory
Dr. Molly Erickson
- Spasmodic dysphoniaAcoustic and physiology of singing
- Acoustics of cultural diversity
- Normative data - vocal physiology
- Experimental phonetics - duration
modeling
Departmental research team members
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