Experts Available for Better Hearing and Speech Month

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has named May “Better Hearing and Speech Month” to raise awareness about communication disorders. Whether it’s a hearing loss, difficulty with swallowing or balance, a disorder such as stuttering or delayed language, or a voice problem, a person’s ability to learn and interact with others can be affected.

The following experts in speech and hearing from The University of Texas at Austin are available:

Dr. Lisa Bedore, College of Communication
(512) 232-5101
lbedore@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Bedore’s research interests are in the areas of child language and phonological development and disorders with a special interest in Spanish-speaking children.

Dr. Mark Bernstein, College of Communication
(512) 471-1553
bernstein@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Bernstein is an expert in techniques for speech development in deaf people, working with parents of hearing impaired children, the use of simultaneous communication and lexical acquisition in children.

Dr. Courtney Byrd, College of Communication
(512) 232-9426
courtneybyrd@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Byrd’s research focuses on childhood stuttering – both its causes and therapies to treat it.

Dr. Craig Champlin, College of Communication
(512) 471-6345
champlin@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Champlin’s research focuses on measuring the brain’s response to sound, which is critical in diagnosing hearing loss and auditory processing difficulty in infants and young children.

Dr. Barbara Davis, College of Communication
(512) 471-1929
babs@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Davis is an expert in speech acquisition among infants and children, including severe speech delay in children, childhood apraxia of speech and vocal development among infants with cochlear implants.

Dr. Leszek Demkowicz, College of Engineering
(512) 471-4199
leszek@ices.utexas.edu
Personal Web page: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/faculty/bios/demkowicz.cfm

Dr. Demkowicz uses software and other tools to study how the ear canal, skull and other structures carry sound waves, to help improve the features of hearing aids and other devices.

Dr. Joyce Harris, College of Communication
(512) 471-5406
joyceharris@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Harris is an expert is the convergence of language, cognition and aging in normal and communicatively impaired adults.

Dr. Su-Hyun Jin, College of Communication
(512) 471-1759
shjin@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Jin researches speech perception in people with hearing loss, including parts of speech people miss as they lose their hearing.

Dr. Swathi Kiran, College of Communication
(512) 232-3440
s-kiran@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Kiran’s research is focused on treating aphasia (an impairment of the ability to communicate), specifically word naming following a stroke.

Dr. Thomas Marquardt, College of Communication
(512) 471-6831
tmarq@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Marquardt’s primary research interests are in developmental and acquired apraxia (a neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned purposeful movements) of speech and differential diagnosis of speech and language disorders subsequent to brain damage.

Dr. Jan Moore, College of Communication
(512) 471-7720
Jan-moore@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Moore studies speech and language development and disorders in children with hearing impairments, with particular emphasis on children with cochlear implants.

Dr. Elizabeth Pena, College of Communication
(512) 471-2690
lizp@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Pena’s expertise is in the area of dynamic assessment applied to bilingual (Spanish/English) preschool children. She is developing language development test for Hispanic children speaking non-standard English.

Dr. Harvey M. Sussman, College of Communication
(512) 471-1701
sussman@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Sussman studies how language is stored and processed in the brain.

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Contact: Erin Geisler
(512) 475-8071