Robert Schlauch

schla001@umn.edu

Links

A website that describes my research and teaching activities

Hearing Science at University of Minnesota

Undergraduate Handbook (with information for honors students)

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

B.S.: Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Hawaii, 1979 - none
M.S.: Audiology, University of Washington, 1982 - none
Ph.D.: Speech and Hearing Science, University of Washington, 1987 - none

Specialties

cognitive influences on hearing
hearing measurement
diagnostic audiometry
psychophysical procedures
selective attention
intensity and loudness coding in listeners with normal hearing and hearing loss
Hearing loss caused by intense sounds

Publications

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Publications

Pure-tone Spondee Threshold Relationships in Functional Hearing Loss, Schlauch, R., Han, H., Yue, TZ., & Carney, E., Jounral of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 60, 136-143, 2017
Critical Difference Table for Word Recognition Testing Derived Using Computer Simulation, Carney, E. and Schlauch, R.S., Journal of Speech,Language, Hearing Research , 50, 1203-1209, 2007.
Are false positive rates leading to an overestimation of noised induced hearing loss? : and Carney, E., Schlauch, Robert, Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research, 54, 679-692, 2011.
The challenge of detecting minimal hearing loss in audiometric surveys,: and Carney, E., Schlauch, Robert, American Journal of Audiology , 21, 106-119, 2012.
Puretone Evaluation. Schlauch, R.S. and Nelson, P., Katz Handbook of Clinical Audiology, 7th Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015.
Mechanisms responsible for differences in perceived duration for rising-intensity and falling-intensity sounds, DiGiovanni, J.J. and Schlauch, R.S., Ecological Psychology, 19, 239-264, 2007.
The effects of fundamental frequency contour manipulations on speech intelligibility in background noise. Miller, S., Schlauch, R.S., and Watson, P.J. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,128, 435-443 2010
A demonstration of improved precision of word-recognition scores: Anderson, E.S. and Micheyl, C., Schlauch, Robert, Journal of Speech, Language Hearing Research, 57, 543-555, 2014.
The effect of visual cues on the scoring of clinical word-recognition tests. Han, H.J., Schlauch, R.S. and Rao, A. American Journal of Audiology, 2014.
Effective identification of functional hearing loss using behavioral threshold measures: Koerner, T. and Marshall, L., Schlauch, Robert, Journal of Speech, Language Hearing Research, 58, 452-465, 2015.
Perceptual Temperal Asymmetry Associated with Distinct ON and OFF Responses to Time-Varying Sounds with Rsing and Falling Intensity: A Magnoencephalography Study, Zhang, Y., Cheng, B., Koerner, T., Schlauch, R. Tanaka, K. et al. Brain Sciences 2016

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Member, Acoustical Society of America none - none
Member, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association none - none
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Univesity of Minnesota 2002 - 2015
Director of Honors, Department of Speech-language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota 2000 - 2015
Member, Student Academic Affairs Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota 2002 - present
Elected Representative of the Physiological Acoustics and Psychoacoustics Technical Committee to the Acoustical Society of America 2005 - 2007
Publications Board, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2001 - 2003
Associate Editor: American Journal of Audiology. 2006 - 2007
Department Chair 2015 - 2018
Editor, JSLHR-Hearing 2007 - 2010
American National Standards Insitute Working Group: Member and Chair of working groups for standards related to loudness and measuring intelligibility of speech over communication systems, respectively. 2002 - 2010
Member, American Auditory Society

Outreach

Minnesota Speech Language Hearing Foundation Board Member: non-profit group that oversees monies for scholarships and education in the field. 2003 - 2009

Awards

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Awards

National Institute of Health Research Service Award, 1988 - 1989
American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Scholarship, 1986 - none
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2002 - none
Distinguished Alumnus Award (Dept of Speech and Hearing Sciences) University of Washington
Fellow, American Speech-Language Hearing Association, 2011

Courses

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Courses

SLHS 8801 - Audiologic Assessment II
SLHS 5801 - Audiologic Assessment I
SLHS 8805 - Hearing Science Foundations of Audiology
SLHS 8803 - Signals and Systems in Audiology
SLHS 3306 - Hearing Science