Date
Title/Topic
Speaker
Location
11/12/18

Is cochlear gain reduction related to speech-in-noise performance? (Milvae)

Babies know words, even when they are mispronounced: A meta-analysis of mispronunciation sensitivity (Von Holzen)

Kristina Milvae & Katie Von Holzen, HESP Tydings Hall 2108
11/5/18 Toddler's accommodation of accent: acoustic and experiential factors (Newman) The cocktail party effect in domestic dogs (Mallikarjun) Amritha Mallikarjun & Rochelle Newman, HESP Tydings Hall 2108
10/22/18 Rely on what’s reliable: Effects of cognitive-control engagement on children’s sentence comprehension (Ovans); The lexical advantage: Four-year-old children acquire words, not sounds (Cychosz) Zoe Ovans & Margaret Cychosz, HESP Tydings Hall 2108
10/15/18 Tone-Evoked Acoustic Change Complex (ACC) Recorded in a Sedated Animal Model Alex Presacco, HESP Tydings Hall 2108
10/1/2018 HESP Student Research Blitz HESP PhD Candidates Tydings Hall 2108
9/24/2018 HESP Faculty Research Bliz HESP Faculty Tydings Hall 2108
5/17/2018 Dissertation Defense: The role of personality on cognitive-linguistic deficits in teens and adults with mild TBI Melissa Stockbridge, HESP Language Science Center; room 2124 HJ Patterson Hall
5/9/2018 Honor's Thesis: Online Conflict-Based Regulation in Language Prodcution Julie Knorr, HESP LeFrak 2208
5/4/2018 Honor's Thesis: Effects of aging on identification of spectrally degraded and frequency-shifted digits in normal-hearing listeners Lauren Wilson, HESP LeFrak 2208
4/24/2018

CLD Presentations:

1st Presentation: Bilingual assessment and use of interpreters

2nd Presentation: Capturing Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Alternative and Augmentative Communication.

1st Presentor: Evelyn Oliveira

2nd Presentor: Nisha Sharma

Jimenez Hall 0118
4/23/2018 Honor's Thesis: Investigation of the relationship between language and short-term memory in persons with aphasia and neurologically healthy adults Rebecca Goodridge, HESP VMH 1207
4/19/2018

CLD Presentations: 

1st Presentation: Translation Services in Hospital Setting and Diagnostic/Treatment of Bilingual Populations

2nd Presentation: Language, poverty, and the achievement gap in CLD students

1st Presenter: Seongsil Lee

2nd Presenter: Audry Tafoya

LeFrak 0135
4/18/2018 Honor's Thesis: Audiovisual benefit in the perception of foreign-accented speech by cochlear-implant users Emily Waddington, HESP LeFrak 2208
4/11/2018 Dialect mismatch and learning to read: Research to practice Jan Edwards, HESP

1121 Benjamin Building

4/6/2018

HESP Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Emphasis Program Student Presentations

Andrea Azem & Sophie Wereley, HESP

LeFrak 0135
3/29/2018 The effect of listening condition on reverberation perception in normal hearing and hearing-impaired individuals Gregory Ellis, University of Louisville LeFrak 0135
3/28/2018 Bilingual Children’s Language and Literacy Development: Home and Classroom Factors Carol Hammer, Columbia University 1121 Benjamin Building
3/14/2018 Three studies on listening in noise: The role of attention, the impact of autism, and humans vs. canines Rochelle Newman, HESP LeFrak 2208
3/7/2018 Optimizing programming in cochlear implant listeners: electrode position, channel interaction and speech perception Lindsay Devries, University of Washington LeFrak 2208
2/21/2018 Assessing tense and agreement morphology in typically developing children and children who use AAC Thomas Kovaks, University of Pittsburgh LeFrak, 2208
12/14/2017 Can we predict phonological awareness in children as young as 2 ½-years- old? Michelle Erksine, HESP LeFrak, 2166
12/6/2017 Communication in Concussion Melissa Stockbridge, HESP LeFrak, 2208
11/29/2017 Consonant and vowel processing over development in the French-learning infant Katie Von Holzen, HESP LeFrak, 2208
10/25/2017 Adaptation to novel foreign-accented speech and retention of benefit following training: Influence of aging and hearing loss Rebecca Bieber, HESP LeFrak, 2208
10/18/2017 Computer-Assistance Techniques for Cochlear Implant Interventions Jack Noble, Vanderbilt University LeFrak, 2208
10/11/2017 Language Phenotyping in Young Children with Concussion Melissa Stockbridge, HESP LeFrak, 2208
10/4/2017 The cognitive comprehender: Mechanisms of language processing under conditions of uncertainty.   Susan Teubner-Rhodes, MUSC LeFrak 2208
9/20/2017

21st century audiology patients and interventions demand more complex, multidisciplinary, real-world outcome measures of hearing and speech understanding

Sterling Sheffield, Walter Reed LeFrak 2208
9/13/17 Departmental Info Blitz HESP Faculty LeFrak 2208
5/15/17 PhD Candidacy Defense: "Age effects on perceputal restoration of degraded interrupted sentences" Brittany Jaekel, UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
5/10/17 HESP Honors Defense: "Cognitive Control and Language Comprehension in Young Children" Nora Leonard, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
5/8/17 PhD Candidacy Defense: "RoBURSTness: Quantifying Robustness of the /t/-/k/ Contrast in Children and Adults"  Allison Johnson, UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
5/5/17 AuD Capstone Research Day AuD Students Patterson 2124
5/3/17 MA Student Blitz MA SLP Students LeFrak 2208
4/26/17 HESP Honors Defense: "The effect of a foreign accent on the short-term memory of school-aged children" Tiara Booth, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
4/20/17 "The Inclusion of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Mainstream Education: Classroom Participation and its Relationship to Communication, Academic, and Social Performance"  Dr. Naama Tsach, School of Education, Tel-Aviv University Tawes 1310
4/19/17 HESP Honors Defense: "Effect of frequency region on across-channel processing of interaural level differences"  Beth Rosen, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
4/13/17 "Exploring the Relationship Between Sound Localization and Spatial Release from Masking" Dr. Richard Freyman, UMass Amherst Morrill 1101
4/5/17 "Aging and the perception of Spanish-accented English" Dr. Sandra Gordon-Salant. UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
3/29/17 "Auditory perceptual learning in adults with and without age-related hearing loss" Dr. Hanin Karawani, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
3/8/17 "Hidden Hearing Loss and Assessment of Functional-Hearing Deficits in Active-Duty Service Members"  Dr. Ken Grant, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center LeFrak 2208
2/22/17 "Understanding speech perception difficulties in complex listening environments: Individual contributions of age and hearing loss" Dr. Nirmal Srinivasan, Towson University LeFrak 2208
2/8/17 PhD Student Data Blitz HESP Students LeFrak 2208
1//27/17- 1/28/16 Cochlear Implant MASH Conference UMD HESP and others LeFrak 2208
12/14/16 "The status of codeswitching in translanguaging" Dr. Jeff MacSwan, UMD College of Education LeFrak 2208
12/7/16 "Dialect mismatch and its implications for academic achievement" Dr. Jan Edwards, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
12/5/16 "The effect of exposure in noise on Spanish-accent word recognition in toddlers" Ashley Thomas, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
11/30/16 "Measuring the effect of tinnitus on concentration"  Dr. LaGuinn Sherlock, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center LeFrak 2208
11/16/16 "Extracting meaning from auditory signals: A look at how children process variation in language" Dr. Giovanna Morini, University of Delaware LeFrak 2208
11/9/16 "The Frequency Following Response: A Subcortical Marker of Speech Perception in Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss" Dr. Saradha Ananthakrishnan, Towson University LeFrak 2208
11/2/16 "Binaural perception in noise and reverberation with bilateral cochlear implant devices" Dr. Kostas Kokkinakis, University of Kansas LeFrak 2008
10/26/16 "Improving communication for persons with age-related hearing loss and dementia" Dr. Sara Mamo, UMass Amherst LeFrak 2208
10/19/16 "Speech Perception Training for Adult Learners of Mandarin & Korean" Dr. Erica Michael, CASL LeFrak 2208
9/28/16 "Profiles of language impairment: Insights from speakers of Mandarin Chinese"  Dr. Li Sheng, University of Delaware LeFrak 2208
9/7/2016 "Modality Effects in Multi-task Listening Environments"  Dr. Lynn Bielski, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center LeFrak 2208
8/31/2016 Faculty Data Blitz HESP Faculty LeFrak 2208
5/4/2016 M.A. SLP Thesis Presentations M.A. SLP Students LeFrak 2208
4/29/2016 "Influence of L1 Knowledge on Grammatical Expectations during Acquisition of L2" Mary Bounds, UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
4/27/2016 "Effects of aging on the perception of words embedded in sentences in simulated cochlear-implant users" Casey Gaskins, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
4/25/2016  Capstone Research Day Au.D. Students LeFrak 2208
4/13/2016 "Examples of translational research from a community-based aphasia center" Darlene Williamson and Melissa Richman, Stroke Comeback Center, VA LeFrak 2208
3/30/2016 "Impact of directional microphones in a real-world communication task" Julie Cohen, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
3/23/2016 "Older listeners process envelope modulations less effectively than younger listeners for understanding of cochlear-implant simulated speech" Maureen Shader, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
3/9/2016 "Understanding and Enhancing the Brain Basis of Aphasia Recovery" Peter Turkeltaub, Georgetown University LeFrak 2208
3/2/2016 "Translating basic science to clinical improvements in cochlear implants"  Matt Goupell, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
2/24/2016 "An investigation of aging and speech recognition performance under difficult working memory conditions" Jaci Schurman, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
2/17/2016 "Who is she? Reference, depth of processing, and the N400" Ellen Lau, UMD Linguistics LeFrak 2208
2/3/2016 Ph.D. Student Data Blitz Ph.D. Students LeFrak 2208
12/02/2015 "Some words are more equal than others: verbs, word retrieval and cognitive control in bilinguals" Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
11/18/2015 "Neural correlates of auditory processing disorders in children" Samira Anderson, UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
11/11/2015 "Recent advances in hair cell regeneration" Michael Hoa, Georgetown University  Medical Center and NIH LeFrak 2208
11/04/2015 "Short-term memory in aphasia" Christos Salis, Newcastle University, UK LeFrak 2208
10/28/2015 "Monitoring and control of language production" Nozbanou Nozari, Johns Hopkins University LeFrak 2208
10/21/2015 "Hierarchal Perception of Phonetic Features as a Function of Degree of Hearing Loss or Processing Related Deficits" Larry Medwetsky, Gallaudet University LeFrak 2208
10/07/2015 "Cognitive mechanism supporting cross-situational word learning" Alexa Romberg, Center for Advanced Studies of Language (CASL) LeFrak 2208
9/30/2015 "Acquisition of word https://hesp.umd.edu/node/999/editmeaning, an instance-based learning model" DJ Bolger, UMD Department of Human Development LeFrak 2208
9/9/2015 Faculty Data Blitz HESP Faculty SQH 1120
5/6/2015 Undergraduate Student Proposal Defenses Undergraduate Honors Students LeFrak 0135
4/29/2015 Graduate Student Proposal Defenses M.A. SLP Students LeFrak 0135
4/24/2015 Capstone Research Day HESP Students LeFrak 0135
4/22/2015 Neural substrates of selection and sequencing for language Malathi Thothathiri, George Washington University LeFrak 0135
4/8/2015 "Dynamic behavioral and neural effects of cognitive control on language processing" Nina Hsu, UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
3/30/2015 "An investigation of inhibitory control in bilingual aphasia" Monica Sampson, UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
3/25/2015 Are young children with cochlear implants sensitive to the statistics of words in the ambient spoken language? Ling-Yu Guo, University of Buffalo LeFrak 0135
2/18/2015 Impaired Comprehension of Alternating Syntactic Constructions in Autism Melissa StockbridgeHESP M.A./Ph.D. Program LeFrak 0135
2/4/2015 Assessment of Cognitive Load -- The Brain at Work During Human Performance Brad HatfieldUMD Kinesiology LeFrak 0135
11/19/2014 Dysphagia in Traumatically Injured US Military Service Members: Linking Clinical, Biomechanical, and Functional Data Angela Dietsch, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center LeFrak 0135
11/12/2014 Voice Telecommunications Accessibility for People with Hearing Loss Linda Kozma-Spytek, Gallaudet University LeFrak 0135
11/5/2014 Auditory Processing Disorders in the Traumatic Brain Injured and Blast-Exposed Patient Jackie Jackson, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center LeFrak 0135
10/29/2014 Exploring socioeconomic differences in syntactic development through processing Yi Ting Huang, UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
10/22/2014 Language, Music, and Cognitive Control Robert Slevc, UMD Department of Psychology LeFrak 0135
10/2/2014 Early exposure to mother's voice: The primer for hearing, language, and brain development Amir Lahav, Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health LeFrak 0135
9/24/2014 Graduate Student Data Blitz! HESP Ph.D. and Post-Doc Students LeFrak 0135
9/10/2014 Faculty Data Blitz! HESP Faculty LeFrak 2208
8/20/2014 Ronan McGarrigle, University of Manchester LeFrak 0135
4/30/2014 Arifi Waked,UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
4/16/2014 Amanda Eisner,UMD Honors Program LeFrak 0135
4/9/2014 Sara Dougherty,UMD Honors Program LeFrak 0135
4/7/ 2014 Krista Voelmle, UMD Honors Program LeFrak 0135
4/2/2014 "The use of prosody to infer discourse status in degraded speech" Allison Catalano,UMD Honors Program LeFrak 0135

3/26/2014

Giovanna MoriniUMD HESP

LeFrak 0135
3/12/2014 Alex Presacco, UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
2/26/2014 An investigation of phonological encoding of nouns and verbs  Laura Friedman, UMD Honors Program LeFrak 0135
2/19/2014 Understanding difficulty: Indicators of cognitive demands during speech recognition Stefanie Kuchinsky LeFrak 0135
2/3/2014
Use of the Extended Speech Intelligibility Index (ESII) and the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) to quantify functional hearing ability Sigfrid D. Soli, PhD, House Ear Institute and University of Southern California LeFrak 0135
12/11/2013 Transcranial direct current stimulation in primary progressive aphasia: Preliminary results and challenges Kyrana Tsapkini, Johns Hopkins University LeFrak 2208
12/4/2013 Mental Representation of Verbs Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah, UMD HESP LeFrak
[rescheduled for Spring 2014] Vocal Fold Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Luc Mongeau (McGill/Hopkins) LeFrak 2208
11/20/2013 Expanding the Candidacy Criteria for Cochlear Implantation Josh Bernstein, Walter Reed LeFrak 2208
11/6/2013 Maximizing Cochlear Implant Benefits with Short-Term AR Intervention  Claire Bernstein, Gallaudet LeFrak 2208
10/23/2013 Asymmetrical Signal Degradation Causes Difficulty in Understanding Speech in Spatial Attention Tasks Daniel Eisenberg,UMD HESP LeFrak 2208
10/2/2013 Differences in Timing Perception Due to Aging May Not Entail Differences in Timing Use Chris Heffner,UMD HESP/NACS LeFrak 2208
9/25/2013 The Cochlear Implant: Past, Present, and Future Jim Patrick, Chief ScientisCochlear Limited LeFrak 2208
9/16/2013 The understanding and use of accommodations for instruction and assessment Kathy Dow-BurgerUMD HESP LeFrak 0135
4/17/2013 Bigger is not better:  Neural mechanisms of hearing loss and training in older adults Samira Anderson, UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
4/3/2013 Language profiles of children with new onset and chronic epilepsy Nan Ratner,UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
3/27/2013 Is walking or has walked: An Exploration of Tense and Aspect Comprehension Maria Payne, UMD HESP
(Honors Student)
LeFrak 0135
3/13/2013 Coordination of linguistic and cognitive processes during reading development Yi Ting Huang,UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
2/27/2013 Cell Type-Specific Analysis of the Mouse Inner Ear, from Gene Lists to Regulatory Pathways Ronna Hertzano,UMMC LeFrak 0135
2/13/2013 Degradation of binaural sensitivity for people using bilateral cochlear implants with unequal insertion depths Matthew GoupellUMD HESP LeFrak 0135
1/30/2013 Rate and phonological variation in preschool children: Effects of modeling and directed influence Catherine Eaton,UMD HESP LeFrak 0135
12/13/2012 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of a real‐time cochlear implant acoustic simulation and auditory modeling of the medial olivocochlear efferent system Dr. Christopher Smalt, University of Indiana Morrill 1101
12/05/2012 Processing the Rhythm: Word Identification in American Singaporean English Giovanna MoriniUMD HESP LeFrak 0135
11/28/2012 Organization of Spectrotemporal Preferences in the Inferior Colliculus and its Role for Encoding Natural Sounds Fransisco Rodriguez, UConn Morrill 1101
10/23/2012 Customized fitting and assessment procedures for recipients of cochlear implants Dr. Matthew Fitzgerald, NYU Morrill 1101
5/7/2012 Signal Processing in Cochlear Implants and the Clinical Implications Dr. Bas Van Dijk, Cochlear Technology Centre Belgium Le Frak 0135

 

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