Publications | HESP l Hearing and Speech Sciences Department l University of Maryland

Sisskin, V., Brow, N., Goldstein, B., Goldstein-Schuff, C., Shaw, K., & Wertz, J. (2026). Avoidance reduction therapy for stuttering: Case spotlights through an ARTS lens. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1044/202 sisskin-et-al-2026-avoidance-reduction-therapy-for-stuttering-case-spotlights-through-an-arts-lens.pdf843.94 KB
Haley Warner, Nan Bernstein Ratner & Eric Jackson (2026, in press). Information load predicts stuttering events. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.
El Ouardi, L., & Faroqi-Shah, Y. (2025). Inflectional morphology and word order in agrammatic production: A cross-linguistic study of Moroccan Arabic and English. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1–17.
Powell D, Sapoznick A, Obeng A, Koch C, Nothelle S, Oh E, Reed N, Wolff J. Hearing Care Access Amidst Dementia in Primary Care Practice: Identifying Opportunities to Improve Integration. Innov Aging. 2025 Dec 31;9(Suppl 2):igaf122.3783. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igaf122.3783. igaf122.3783.pdf1.85 MB
Wec A, Wu M, Scerpella D, Zhang Z, Peereboom D, Wolff J, Powell D. Follow-Up for Subjective Memory Concerns Expressed During the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit. Innov Aging. 2025 Dec 31;9(Suppl 2):igaf122.1067. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igaf122.1067. igaf122.1067.pdf608.95 KB
Wen, Christopher Z.*; Puc, Marcelina†; Gomez, Charlyn‡; Powell, Danielle S.§∥; Eisenman, David J.*; Kaufman, Adam C.*. Socioeconomic and Demographic Trends of Non–English-Speaking Cochlear Implantees: A Large National Database Analysis. Otology & Neurotolology 46(10):p e471-e478, December 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004603
Alexander, P. S., Rosvold, C., Ortiz, J. A., Thompson, E. A., & Ratner, N. B. (2025). A Comparative Study of Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) and Black English Sentence Scoring (BESS) in AAE Language Sample Analysis. Seminars in speech and language, 10.1055/a-2709-6424. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2709-6424
Lelo de Larrea-Mancera ES, Koerner TK, Bologna WJ, Momtaz S, Menon KN, Carrillo A, Hoover EC, Stecker GC, Gallun FJ, Seitz AR. At-Home Auditory Assessment Using Portable Automated Rapid Testing (PART) to Understand Self-Reported Hearing Difficulties. Trends Hear. 2025 Jan-Dec;29:23312165251397373. 10.1177_23312165251397373.pdf1.24 MB
Salig, L., Valdes-Kroff, J., Novick, J.M, & Slevc, L.R. (in press). Bilinguals have better recall for code-switched information. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. BSR_Manuscript_Preprint_2025.11.03.pdf365.74 KB
N. S. Reed, S. Y. Bessen, P. Martinez-Amezcua, J. A. Deal, D. Powell et al., “ Modification of the Association Between Hearing Trouble and Satisfaction With Care by Accompaniment to Health Care Visits,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2025): 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.70176.
N. S. Reed, S. Y. Bessen, P. Martinez-Amezcua, J. A. Deal, D. Powell et al., “ Modification of the Association Between Hearing Trouble and Satisfaction With Care by Accompaniment to Health Care Visits,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2025): 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.70176.
Reed, N.S., Jiang, K., Bessen, S.Y., Gahlon, G., Tarabichi, O., Myers, C., Huang, A., Powell, D., Lin, F.R. and Deal, J.A., 2025. Associations Between Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Factors and Hours of Daily Hearing Aid Use in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. American Journal of Audiology, pp.1-10.
Von Holzen, K., & Newman, R. S. (2025). Ab initio word recognition in infant- and adult-directed continuous speech. To appear in Applied Psycholinguistics. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x8drj_v1
Koppy, A.,O’Fallon, M., Huang, YT, Van Horne, AO, Distributional patterns in recast therapy do not systematically align with patterns in conversational data, Journal of Communication Disorders, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106576. 1-s2.0-S0021992425000838-main.pdf2.01 MB
Von Holzen, K. M. & Newman, R. S. (2025). Children's foreign word recognition at first exposure: The role of phonological similarity and utterance position. Language Learning. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.70009
Ballew, S. H., Garcia Morales, E. E., Zhang, W., Saylor, M. A., Powell, D. S., Pike, J. R., Kucharska-Newton, A., Schoenborn, N. L., Koton, S., Kent, E. E., Roth, D. L., Coresh, J., Wolff, J. L., Reed, N., & Ornstein, K. A. (2025). Mortality and hospitalization among older caregivers: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaf182
Brown C, Dziewietin L, Partridge V, Myers J. Developing an Equitable Machine Learning–Based Music Intervention for Older Adults At Risk for Alzheimer Disease: Protocol for Algorithm Development and Validation. JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e73711
Salig, L., Valdés Kroff, J. R., Slevc, L. R., & Novick, J. M. (2025). Hearing a code-switch increases bilinguals’ attention to and memory for information. Journal of Memory and Language, 143, 104647. 1-s2.0-S0749596X25000403-main.pdf4.18 MB
Byrd, A. S., Huang, Y. T., & Edwards, J. (2025). Understanding How Dialect Differences Shape How AAE-Speaking Children Process Sentences in Real-Time. Seminars in speech and language, 10.1055/a-2626-3292. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2626-3292
Anna R. Tinnemore, Sandra Gordon-Salant, Matthew J. Goupell; Context effects for degraded speech: Effects of age, preceding or subsequent contextual cues, and signal-to-noise ratio. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 July 2025; 158 (1): 447–460. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0037182 447_1_10.0037182.pdf2.89 MB
Bernstein, J. G. W., & Goupell, M. J. (2025). The Roles of Selective Attention and Asymmetric Experience in Bilateral Speech Interference for Single-Sided Deafness Cochlear Implant and Vocoder Listeners. Ear and hearing, 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001687
Powell DS, McCoy R. Hearing Care within Diabetes Care: Strategies for Direct Inclusion. Diabetes Care. 2025. diaclincd250002.pdf692.65 KB
Zoe Ovans, Meli René Ayala, Rhosean Asmah, Anqi Hu, Monique Montoute, Amanda Owen Van Horne, Zhenghan Qi, Giovanna Morini, Yi Ting Huang; The Feasibility of Remote Visual-World Eye-Tracking With Young Children. Open Mind 2025; 9 992–1019. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi.a.16 opmi.a.16.pdf1.41 MB
Gills, J.L., Jones, M.D., Campitelli, A., Paulson, S., Diehl, C., Rodgers, C., Madero, E., Myers, J.R. et al, The examination of Physical function index and cognitive outcomes in middle-to-older high-risk adults: An unsupervised clustering method. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, p.1351658. fpubh-4-1351658.pdf326.13 KB
Wu, S., Wenzel, K. V., Li, J., Li, Q., Pradhan, A., Kushalnagar, R., ... & Ratner, N. B. (2025). Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity. CHI25_Speech_AI_workshop.pdf453.93 KB