Faculty
Faculty & Clinical Professionals
| Name | Office Hours (CST) and Contact Info | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Erin Bodner MA, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor |
119G Shevlin Hall
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Stuttering, neurodiversity-affirming communication, child language |
| Natalie Covington PhD, Assistant Professor |
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:45-4:45pm 51 Shevlin Hall 612-626-9688 nvcoving@umn.edu |
Research with a focus on understanding and accounting for heterogeneity in cognitive recovery in individuals with a history of traumatic brain injury |
| Evelyn Davies-Venn PhD, Assistant Professor |
Office hours: Mon 3 - 4 PM or by appointment. Please email Evelyn Davies-Venn for the meeting link for office hours. |
Hearing impairment and cochlear implants, hearing aid signal processing, spectral and temporal processing, cognitive influences on hearing, computational modeling of auditory processing |
| Kerry Ebert PhD, Associate Professor |
In person office hours on Tuesdays from 12-1pm or by appointment either in person or on Zoom
215B Shevlin Hall
612-624-2528
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Child language disorders, bilingualism, cognitive-linguistic interactions, service efficacy in children's speech-language disorders |
| Shaeleen Fagre AuD, CCC-A, Audiology Clinical Supervisor |
Virtual or in-person office hours by appointment only. Please email Shaeleen Fagre to schedule.
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Hearing evaluations, hearing aid fitting and follow-up care, hearing conservation testing, custom earpieces |
| Marilyn Fairchild MA, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor |
Virtual and In-person office hours by appointment. Please email Marilyn Fairchild to schedule. |
Gender affirming voice and communication, developmental and acquired communication disorders in children and adults, social communication, literacy, assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals |
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Lizbeth Finestack
PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies |
Office hours by appointment only.
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Child language, language intervention, developmental disabilities: developmental language disorder (DLD), autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and Fragile X syndrome |
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Rebecca Lulai
MA, CCC-SLP, Director of Clinical Programs in Speech-Language Pathology, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor
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By appointment at this link Becky Lulai Scheduling Link
215G Shevlin Hall |
Cognitive rehabilitation and brain injury, stroke rehabilitation, selective mutism |
| Katlyn McGrattan PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor |
Office hours by appointment
225 Shevlin Hall
612-626-1185
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Pediatric aerodigestive physiology, dysphagia (swallowing disorders), medically fragile infants |
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Benjamin Munson
PhD, Professor, Chair |
Office Hours by Apointment
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Speech-sound development in children, childhood speech-sound disorders, the influence of social stereotypes on speech perception, speech production, speech perception, experimental methods in speech and language research, children's word learning |
| Peggy Nelson PhD, CCC-A, Professor |
215G Shevlin Hall 612-625-4569 nelso477@umn.edu |
Audiology, hearing aid signal processing, hearing loss, psychoacoustics, speech perception |
| Melissa Polonenko PhD, Assistant Professor |
Mondays from 2-3pm and Wednesdays from 10-11am over Zoom 34 Shevlin Hall |
Audiology, electrophysiology, auditory development, hearing loss, multi-sensory processing, cochlear implants and hearing aids, binaural and spatial hearing, behavioral measures, outcome measurements |
| Jayanthi Sasisekaran PhD, Associate Professor |
Virtual office hours by appointment.
Please email Jayanthi Sasisekaran for the meeting link for office hours.
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Stuttering, psycholinguistic processes, dual-task performance, language-speech motor interface |
| Robert Schlauch PhD, Professor |
Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30am-12:30pm or by appointment
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Hearing measurement, cognitive influences on hearing, diagnostic audiometry, psychophysical procedures, selective attention, intensity and loudness coding in listeners with normal hearing and hearing loss, hearing loss caused by intense sounds |
| Peter Watson PhD, Associate Professor |
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Speech motor control, neuronal activity in relation to speech, prosody and its control |
| Matthew Winn AuD, PhD, Associate Professor |
Tues 10:30 - 11:30 AM in-person in Shevlin 36 or virtual office hours by appointment
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Audiology, cochlear implants, speech perception, listening effort, speech acoustics, pupillometry, binaural hearing |
| Kerry Witherell AuD, CCC-A, Director of Clinical Programs in Audiology, Audiology Clinical Supervisor |
Virtual office hour appointments or in person by appointment 205A Shevlin Hall |
Adult audiologic services, electrophysiology, implantable devices, cleft and craniofacial clinics, community hearing screenings |
| Yang Zhang PhD, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies |
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-3:30pm 49 Shevlin Hall
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Auditory neuroscience, speech and voice perception, learning and cognitive development, magnetoencephalography (MEG), event-related potentials (ERP), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) |
Emeritus Faculty
| Name |
|---|
| Patricia Broen PhD |
| Arlene Carney PhD |
| Samuel Haroldson MA |
| Kathryn Kohnert PhD |
| Karlind Moller PhD |
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Joe Reichle
PhD
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| Charles Speaks PhD |
| Jane Carlstrom AuD, CCC-A, Clinical Specialist |