Our faculty and students in Hearing and Speech Sciences are highly involved in research, collaborations, and initiatives, both within our department and across departments at UMD. See below to explore the wide variety of interdisciplinary research that is being conducted through and with the HESP department:
HESP Labs
Hearing and Speech Sciences Lab Name | Primary Researcher |
Aphasia Research Center ![]() |
Dr. Yasmeen Faroqi Shah |
Auditory Perception and Modeling Laboratory | Dr. Matthew Goupell |
Dr. Rochelle Newman | |
Canine Language Perception Lab | Dr. Rochelle Newman |
Hearing Science Lab | Dr. Sandra Gordon-Salant |
Cognitive Control and Language Processing Lab (email jnovick1 [at] umd.edu (subject: Lab%20Inquiry) for details) |
Dr. Jared Novick |
Dr. Samira Anderson | |
Language and Cognition Laboratory | Dr. Yi Ting Huang |
Language Development & Perception Laboratories | Dr. Rochelle Newman |
Dr. Jan Edwards | |
Dr. Jan Edwards | |
Ratner Lab (email nratner [at] umd.edu for details) |
Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner |
University-wide Collaborations
Collaboration Name | Associated HESP Researchers |
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Brain and Behavior Initiative (BBI) | |
Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (CCEBH) |
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Center For Advanced Study of Language (CASL) ![]() |
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Infant and Child Studies Consortium ![]() |
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Maryland Neuroimaging Center ![]() ![]() |
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Maryland Language Science Center |
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Project on Avoidance Reduction Therapy | |
University of Maryland Autism Research Consortium ![]() |
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Collaborations Beyond Campus
- University of Maryland Medical Center
- Children's National Medical Center
- Division of Otolaryngology-HNS, Division of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- Big Ten Academic Alliance
- Universitas 21
Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area
The University of Maryland is part of the Consortium of Universities of the Metropolitan Washington Area, which allows eligible undergraduate and graduate students to enroll in classes at other participating area universities and have the credit count towards their degrees.
The consortium includes:
- The George Washington University
- Gallaudet University
- University of the District of Columbia
- American University
- Georgetown University
- Howard University
Information on eligibility and procedures are available on Testudo.
Course exclusions (Testudo)