Sandra Gordon-Salant, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Audiology at Northwestern University. She has served as Editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America – Express Letters, and member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committees on Disability Determination for Individuals with Hearing Impairments and Medical Evaluation of Veterans for Disability Determination. Her research interests include the effects of aging and hearing loss on auditory processes, as well as signal enhancement devices for hearing-impaired listeners. She has published over 110 articles and book chapters on the topic of age-related hearing loss and speech understanding problems of older people. She is the senior editor of the book, The Aging Auditory System. Dr. Gordon-Salant received the prestigious James Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology in 2009 and was elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2011. She also received the Al Kawana Award for outstanding contributions to research from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in 2013 and the Honors of the ASHA in 2017. Her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health since 1986. Dr. Gordon-Salant was also named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland in 2017, and most recently was awarded the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Dean's Medal in 2023.
Areas of Interest
- speech perception, psychoacoustics, aging, cognition, signal processing
Degrees
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Ph.DNorthwestern University, Evanston, IL 1981
| Course Name | Course Title | Semester | Syllabus |
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| HESP636 | Geriatric Audiology | Spring 2022 | |
| HESP606 | Basic Hearing Measurements | Fall 2020 | |
| HESP636 | Geriatric Audiology | Spring 2020 | |
| HESP606 | Basic Hearing Measurements | Fall 2019 | |
| HESP311 | Anatomy, Pathology and Physiology of the Auditory System | Spring 2019 | |
| HESP636 | Geriatric Audiology | Spring 2018 | |
| HESP606 | Basic Hearing Measurements | Fall 2017 | |
| HESP311 | Anatomy, Pathology and Physiology of the Auditory System | Spring 2017 | |
| HESP606 | Basic Hearing Measurements | Fall 2016 | |
| HESP636 | Geriatric Audiology | Spring 2016 | |
| HESP606 | Basic Hearing Measurements | Fall 2015 | |
| HESP606 | Basic Hearing Measurements | Fall 2014 | Syllabus |
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NationalMember, Advisory Board, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
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CampusEmeritus ADVANCE Professor, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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CampusFaculty Liaison to the UMD Instituional Review Board (IRB)
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CampusCo-Director, Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing
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InternationalAdvisory Board, Aging and Speech Communication International Conference
Current Students
Former Students
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Sarah Hargus FergusonAssistant Professor, University of Utah
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Susan L. PhillipsAssociate Professor, East Carolina University
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Patricia RandolphProfessor, University of the District of Columbia
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Kelly A. KingResearch audiologist, National Institutes of Health
