Graduate Students - PhD
Current Students
| Name | Specialties |
|---|---|
| Liz Ancel | |
| Min-Kyoung Choi | Speech perception of bilinguals (especially, late bilinguals as second language learners): endogenic and exogenic factors that affect the speech perception in second language learners; Lexical process in second language learners |
| Steven Gianakas | Speech and language processing in listeners with hearing loss |
| Chieh Kao | Developmental speech and emotional prosody perception in infancy and the corresponding neural mechanisms; Audiovisual speech perception and it's neural correlates in second language learners |
| Alix Klang | Sensory aids; Speech perception and recognition |
| Kirstin Kuchler | Child language assessment and intervention: focusing on bilingualism, developing culturally appropriate assessments |
| Xiaofan Lei | Stuttering; Psycholinguistics; Working memory |
| Kristi Oeding | Hearing loss: psychoacoustics, hearing aids, personal sound amplification systems, aging, optimizing amplification for speech recognition in noise |
| Bobbi Rohwer | Pre-linguistic communication; Early syntax development in complex communicators with ASD; Social determinants of health and its effects on SLP and ASD-related services |
| Michael Smith | |
| Matthew Waggenspack | Processing strategies used in sensory aids for the treatment of hearing loss; Identification of risk factors for the development of hearing and balance disorders |
| Harley Wheeler | |
| Eugene Wong |
Recent Graduates
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Katie Bangert | A comparison of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in children with autism or typical development across communicative and cognitive contexts |
| Shriya Basu | Influence of cognitive variables on sentence production in school-age children who stutter |
| Coral Dirks | Using binaural beat sensitivity to describe mechanisms that may enhance binaural interactions in single-sided-deafness cochlear-implant patients |
| Heekyung Han | The effects of fundamental frequency (F0) contours on the intelligibility benefit of clear speech in native English and native Korean talkers |
| Timothy Huang | Comparing comprehension of indirect answers by children with autism spectrum disorder to children with typical development |
| Trevor Perry | Self-adjustment of hearing aid amplification: Listener preferences and speech recognition performance |
| Jocelyn Yu | Improving the precision and application of speech diagnostic tests |
| Luodi Yu | Thesis: An electrophysiological investigation of linguistic pitch processing in tonal-language-speaking children with autism |