The HESP Department sponsors a series of talks on current research in the areas of hearing, speech, and language by visiting researchers or members of the HESP faculty. All students, faculty, staff, and affiliates are welcome and encouraged to attend. If you would like to join the email distribution list for all upcoming HESP Seminar Series talks, email Dr. Matthew Goupell at goupell [at] umd.edu or Dr. Meg Cychosz at mcychosz [at] umd.edu.
Spring 2023
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Date: January 24, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: SQH1119
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The Disproportionate Identification of Language-Related Disorders in Bilingual Children
Speaker: Dr. José Ortiz
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which different groups of bilingual children are disproportionately identified with language-related disorders.
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Fall 2022
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Date: December 15, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: HJP212
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Isolating effects of perceptual analysis and sociocultural context on children's comprehension of two dialects of English, African American English and General American English
Speaker: Michelle Erskine
Description: This dissertation includes four experiments that use the visual world paradigm to explore the effects of dialect variation on spoken language comprehension among children from two linguistic communities, European American speakers of GAE and African American speakers with varying degrees of exposure to AAE and GAE.
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Date: December 12, 2022 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: LEF2208
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Core Values in the Traditional Provision of Hearing Healthcare
Speaker: Katherine N. Menon
Description: This talk will introduce solutions for the significant issue of untreated hearing loss. These novel and innovation solutions may create new treatment delivery models and may – purposefully or accidentally – challenge the values of the field.
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Date: December 9, 2022 (Friday)
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: MOR1101
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Undergraduate Honors Thesis Defense: Understanding how Autistic Adults Make Social Decisions
Speaker: Valerie Hsieh
Advisors: Yi Ting Huang and Kathy Dow-Burger
Description: The present study explores how autistic individuals process social information when undergoing an interaction and deciding how to respond.
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Date: November 28, 2022 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: LEF2208
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Examining how African American English- and Mainstream American English-speaking Children Process Subject-Verb Agreement in Sentences
Speaker: Arynn Byrd
Description: This study investigates how AAE- and MAE-speaking children use “was/were”, a more perceptually salient feature, to interpret sentences in MAE. Individual Differences in Interpretation of Ambiguous Sentences by 5-Year-Olds
Speaker: Kathleen Oppenheimer
Description: In this experiment, we use verb bias as a tool to investigate the relationship between language knowledge and parsing strategies in five-year-old children.
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Date: November 7, 2022 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: LEF2208
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Expanding the Usage of Auditory Processing Measures in Adult Diagnostic Audiology
Speakers: Alyssa Davidson
Description: The purpose of this talk is to describe the stereotypical limitations associated with auditory processing testing and lay out research studies that overcome these hurdles.
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Date: October 31, 2022 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: LEF2208
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Evaluating “Meaningful Differences” in Language Learning and Communication Across SES Backgrounds
Speakers: Yi Ting Huang, PhD; Arynn S. Byrd, MA, PhD Student; Sophie Domanski, MA, PhD Student; and Rhosean Asmah, BA
Description: We will describe a mixed-methods project that carves SES experiences at their joints can inform when and where language gaps might create challenges for learning and communication.
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Date: October 17, 2022 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: LEF2208
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Neural Mechanisms Underlying Speech Processing Deficits in Age-Related Hearing Loss (Specific Aims Defense)
Speaker: Gary Huang
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Date: October 14, 2022 (Friday)
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: MOR1101
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Neural Encoding of Spatial Changes in a Speech Stream
Speaker: Erol Ozmeral
Description: Our approach to understanding this auditory object-based model combines behavioral and electrophysiological measures to better understand spatial attention, and in this context, we explore the roles aging and hearing loss have on auditory streaming.
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Date: October 10, 2022 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: LEF2208
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Electrophysiological Advances to Improve Management with Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants
Speaker: Samira Anderson
Description: In this seminar, a series of capstone studies conducted by UMD Au.D. students will be presented to suggest that hearing aid fitting and cochlear implant mapping procedures may be improved through incorporation of EEG measures, especially for patients who are struggling to adapt to their devices.
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Date: September 26, 2022 (Monday)
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: LEF0135
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Toward Inclusive and Accessible Self-Tracking
Speakers: Eun Kyoung Choe & Jong Ho Lee
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Date: September 19, 2022 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: LEF2208
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Research Blitz: Students, Postdocs, and Full-Time Researchers
Description: Students, postdocs, and full time researchers will give brief presentations
about their clinical and research work. This is a great opportunity to get to know what
people are working on and support students and trainees in our department. Join us!
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