Publications related to Communication and Communication Disorders Across the Life Span | 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.
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
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
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
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
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Munson, B., Romeo, R., Kosie, J.& Newman, R. S. (2025). The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants. Journal of Child Language, 52(2), 377-398. doi: 10.1017/S0305000924000023
Exton, E. L. & Newman, R. S. (2025). It’s not (just) that your toddler is ignoring you: The impact of noise on children’s comprehension. Acoustics Today, 21(1), 21-29.
Cychosz, M., Romeo, R., Edwards, J. & Newman, R. S. (2025). Bursty, irregular speech input to children predicts vocabulary size. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13590.
Tinnemore, Doyle, and Goupell (2024) “Temporal speech cue perception in listeners with cochlear implants depends on the time between those cues and previous sound energy,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 156, 2851-2859.
Xie, Gaskins, Tinnemore, Shader, Gordon-Salant, Anderson, and Goupell. (2024). “Spectral degradation and carrier sentences increase age-related temporal processing deficits in a cue-specific manner,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155, 3983-3994.
Ezenwa, A. C., Goupell, M. J., and Gordon-Salant, S. (2024) “Cochlear-implant listeners benefit from training with time-compressed speech, even at advanced ages,” JASA Express Lett. 4, 054402.
Abramowitz, J. C., Goupell, M. J., and DeRoy Milvae, K. (2024). “Cochlear-implant simulated signal degradation exacerbates listening effort in older listeners,” Ear Hear. 45, 441-450.
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Romeo, R., & Newman, R. S. (2023). The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants. To appear in the Journal of Child Language.
Karunathilake IMD, Dunlap JL, Perera J, Presacco A, Decruy L, Anderson S, Kuchinsky SE, Simon JZ. Effects of aging on cortical representations of continuous speech. J Neurophysiol. 2023 Jun 1;129(6):1359-1377. doi: 10.1152/jn.00356.2022. Efffects of aging on cortical representations of continuous speech.pdf2.62 MB
Blomquist, C.M., Newman, R.N., & Edwards, J. (2023). The development of spoken word recognition in informative and uninformative sentence contexts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, 105581.
Cychosz, M. & Newman, R. S. (2023). Perceptual normalization for speaking rate occurs below the level of the syllable. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153, 1486-1495. doi: 10.1121/10.0017360
Cychosz, M., Mahr, T., Munson, B., Newman, R., & Edwards, J. (2023). Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13922
Mallikarjun*, A., Shroads, E., & Newman, R. S. (2023). Language preference in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris). Animal Cognition, 26, 451-463. doi: 10.1007/s10071-022-01683-9.
Newman, R. S. & Simpson**, V. M. (2023). Infants' short-term memory for consonant-vowel syllables. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 226, 105567.
Newman, R. S. & Von Holzen, K. (2023). Communication Development in Infancy. In The Development of Language, J. Berko Gleason & N. Bernstein Ratner, 10th edition. Plural Publishing.
Gibbs, B., II, Bernstein, J. G. W, Brungart, D., and Goupell, M. J. (2022). “Better-ear glimpsing in bilateral cochlear-implant users,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152, 1230-1246.