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Faculty Awards

Lisa Goffman was awarded ASHA Honors of the Association in Nov. 2022; this is the highest award offered by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Lisa Goffman serves on the Advisory Council for the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 2019-2024.

Lisa Goffman serves as Co-Chair (with Fan-Gang Zheng) of the NIDCD Advisory Council Working Group on Diversity and Inclusiveness.

Colleen Le Prell began a four year term as a Member of the Auditory System Study Section in the National Institute of Health Center for Scientific Review in Fall 2022.

Andrea Warner-Czyz was the lead author of a new ACIA guidelines document: “Warner-Czyz, A.D., Roland Jr, J.T., Thomas, D., Uhler, K., Zombek, L. (2022). American Cochlear Implant Alliance Task Force Guidelines for Determining Cochlear Implant Candidacy in Children. Ear Hear, 43(2):268-282. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001087.

Cornetta Mosley received an “Editor’s Award” for her paper, “Mosley, C.L. (2021). Designing and Implementing a Comprehensive Telehealth Aural Rehabilitation Program for Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interests Group, vol. 6, pp. 1504-1512.” https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00082

Linda Thibodeau received the Readers’ Choice Award for most accessed article published in 2021

Thibodeau, Linda M.; Thibodeau-Nielsen, Rachel B.; Tran, Chi Mai Quynh; Jacob, Regina Tangerino de Souza (2021) 

“Communicating During COVID-19: The Effect of Transparent Masks for Speech Recognition in Noise?“

Ear and Hearing. 42(4):772-781

Student Awards

UTD Larynx Lab student Sarah McDowell wins “Best Student Oral Presentation” at the Pan-American Vocology Association (mentor, Adrianna Shembel).

UTD Social Communication Lab student Adrienne De Froy received the 2022, Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award ($500) (mentor, Pam Rollins).  The awards help fund post-baccalaureate professional development for active Phi Kappa Phi members to include (but not be limited to): Graduate or professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, career development, travel related to teaching/research/learning, etc.

UTD Noise Lab student AuD/PhD Allison Woodford received a $10,000 grant from the American Academy of Audiology Music and Hearing Research Grant program for her 2021 grant titled “Use of In-Ear Dosimetry to Understand Musicians’ Unique Sound Exposure (MUSE),” (mentor Colleen Le Prell).

UTD Noise Lab student AuD/PhD Conner Jansen received a $10,000 grant from the American Academy of Audiology Music and Hearing Research Grant program for his 2022 grant titled “Music Quality Rating of Electronic and Custom Musician’s Hearing Protection Devices,” (mentor Colleen Le Prell).

UTD Noise Lab AuD/PhD student Conner Jansen received a National Hearing Conservation Association Scholarship Foundation Student Conference Award ($800, mentor Colleen Le Prell).   

UTD SLP MS students Nicole Peters (Softball) and Jordan Rudd (Women’s Basketball) were selected for participation in Distinguished Scholar Athletes Teams awards. 

2nd-year AuD student, Chelsea Koach, was featured in the Dallas Audiology Society Student Bulletin for her work in Kelly Jahn’s lab, where she is exploring clinical practices surrounding the audiological diagnosis and management of hyperacusis

High school student, Vaishnavi Moturi, completed the NanoExplorers program in Kelly Jahn’s lab this summer and she was featured in the latest issue of the UT Dallas Magazine.

UTD AuD student Traci Brinkley was awarded an “Improving the Conversation” Scholarship from the American Academy of Audiology Foundation in 2021.

UTD PhD student Celia Escabi was awarded the “James Jerger Award for Excellence in Student Research” from the American Academy of Audiology Foundation for her poster, “Effects of Selective Inner Hair Cell Loss on Suprathreshold Auditory Brainstem Response Amplitudes” (category: research; mentor, Ed Lobarinas) presented at the 2021 conference of the American Academy of Audiology.

UTD AuD student Lily Rollins was awarded the “James Jerger Award for Excellence in Student Research” from the American Academy of Audiology Foundation for her poster “Evaluation of Factors Affecting Audiologists Perception of Professional Autonomy” (category: Legal, Ethical, and Professional Issues; mentor, Carol Cokely) presented at the 2021 conference of the American Academy of Audiology.

UTD PhD student Natalia Camacho received an ASHA Meritorious Poster Award for her poster, “Camacho, N., & Rojas, R. (2021, November) Comparison of two English-Spanish language screeners: BESOS and QUILS:ES,” presented as a Virtual Research Poster at the 2021 Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington D.C.

UTD PhD student Kate Kreidler received an NIH Student Travel Award for attending the 42nd Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD) in 2022, where she presented her poster, “Kreidler, K. & Goffman, L. (2022, June). Sustained deficits in prosodic organization in children with developmental language disorder” ($700, mentor Lisa Goffman).

UTD PhD student Kate Kreidler received a student award in 2022, for her poster, “Kreidler, K. & Goffman, L. (2022, June). Movement implementation of weak syllables in iambic words in children with developmental language disorder. International Child Phonology Conference.” (mentor Lisa Goffman).

Grants

TheraBeat: a novel sound therapy for Alzheimer’s patients  

  • Agency: AWARE
  • Yune Lee: PI 
  • Direct cost: $20,000 
  • Duration: 05/01/2023 – 04/31/2024 

Investigating the neural mechanisms of language recovery trough rhythm-based intervention in non-fluent aphasia

Non-invasive brain stimulation using a novel 3D sound therapy

  • Agency: Digisonic
  • Yune Lee: PI 
  • Total cost: $200,000 
  • Duration: 01/01/2022 – 12/31/2022 

Evaluating the Efficacy of Pathways Autism Intervention on Social Orienting, Joint Attention and Social Language.

  • Agency: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), Autism Grant Program (AGP) Innovative Treatment Models
  • Pam Rollins, PI
  • Duration: August 15, 2022-June, 31,  2024
  • Total Cost: $854,000

A Developmental Framework for Linking Phonological and Morpho-syntactic Sequential Pattern Rules in Developmental Language Disorder.

  • Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIDCD), R01 DC018410
  • Lisa Goffman, PI (with LouAnn Gerken)
  • Duration: 12/1/17-11/30/22

Sequential pattern learning in children with developmental language disorder.

  • Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIDCD), R01 DC016813
  • Lisa Goffman, PI
  • Duration: 8/1/20-7/31/25

REU Site: Culturally responsive research in developmental sciences.

  • Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Mandy Maguire & Margaret Owen, Multiple PIs
  • Duration: 8/1/21-7/31/24

Drs. Thibodeau and Warner-Czyz received a donation from the Hear Us Now Foundation and Broadway Dallas “Seats for Kids” program that provided a five-day theatrical arts program for students with hearing loss during the first week of August. Twenty children attended the four-day Camp Frozen and over 100 students and their families attended the Broadway production of the musical “Frozen.” Audiology doctoral students assisted with the program which included  management of the wireless technology to improve auditory reception during the camp activities and the Broadway production.

Novel approaches to the study of laryngeal muscle in functional voice disorders 

  • Agency: National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
  • Adrianna Shembel: PI
  • Direct Cost: $300,000
  • Duration: 03/01/2024-02/28/24

Motion Capture Development for the Study of Vocal Muscle Strain

  • Agency: UTD Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research (SPIRe)
  • Adrianna Shembel: PI
  • Direct Cost: $60,000
  • Duration: 06/22/21-02/28/23

Publications

Lee Lab: SLAM Lab

Lee, YS, Rogers, C, Min, NE, Wingfield, A, Grossman, M, Peelle, JE. Neural compensation supporting successful speech comprehension in normal aging. Aging Brain, ,2, 100051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbas.2022.100051

Kim, H-W, Lee, K, Lee, YS. (2022). Sensorimotor and working memory systems jointly support development of perceptual rhythm processing. Developmental Science, e13261. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13261 

Yoon, Y-S, Gutierrez, M, Lee, YS. (2021). Effects of the configuration of hearing loss on consonant perception between simulation bimodal and electric acoustic stimulation hearing. Journal of American Academy of Audiology, 32(08), 521-527. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1731699 

Rollins Lab: Social Communication Lab

Rollins, Pamela, & Adriane De Froy*, Reexamining Pathways Early Autism Intervention in Children Before and After the Third Birthday: A Randomized Control Trial. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05599-8. *UTD PhD student

Rollins, Pamela R, Adriane De Froy*, Sebastian Gajardo, Sara Brantley, Pragmatic Contributions to Early Vocabulary and Social Communication in Young Autistic Children with Language and Cognitive Delays. Journal of Communication Disorders, (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05599-8 *UTD PhD student

Su Lab: Language Interaction and Language Acquisition in Children (LILAC) Lab

Su, P. L., Rojas, R., & Iglesias, A. (2022). Dual Language Profiles in Spanish-Speaking English Learners. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(7), 2608-2628. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00447

Jahn Lab: Neuroaudiology and Prosthetic Hearing Lab

Jahn, K.N. (2022). Clinical and investigational tools for monitoring noise-induced hyperacusis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(1), 553-566.

Jahn, K.N., Hancock, K.E., Maison, S.F., Polley, D.B. (2022). Estimated cochlear neural degeneration is associated with loudness hypersensitivity in individuals with normal audiograms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America – Express Letters,2, 064403.

Jahn, K.N., Arenberg, J.G., Horn, D.L. (2022). Spectral resolution development in children with normal hearing and with cochlear implants: A review of behavioral studies. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-13.

Evans Lab: Child Language and Cognitive Processes Lab

Evans, J., Maguire, M., & Sizemore, M†. (2022). Neural Patterns Elicited by Lexical Processing in Adolescents with Specific Language Impairment: Support for the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis? Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 14(10) 1-22.

Ahufinger Sanclemente, N.,† Barrachina, L., Torrent, M., Sanz, L., & Evans, J.L. (2021). Statistical Word Learning in Catalan-Spanish speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorder, 57(1) 42-62.

Ahufinger Sanclemente, N.,† Berglund-Barraza, A.,† Cruz-Santos, A.,† Ferinu, L., Andreu, L., Sanz-Torrent, M., & Evans, J.L. (2021). Consistency of a Nonword Repetition Task to Discriminate children with and without Developmental Language Disorder in Catalan-Spanish and European Portuguese speaking children.  Children, 8(2), 85.

Ellis, E.,† † Borovsky, A.,† Elman, J., & Evans, J.L. (2021). Toddlers’ Ability to Leverage Statistical Information to Support Word Learning. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 12, 641.

Goffman Lab: Language in Motion Lab

Malandraki, G., Mitchell, S. S., Hahn Arkenberg, R. E., Brown, B., Craig, B. A., Burdo-Hartman, W., Lundine, J. P., & Goffman, L. (2022). Swallowing and motor speech skills in unilateral cerebral palsy: Novel findings from a preliminary cross-sectional study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

*Factor, L. & Goffman, L. (2022). Phonological characteristics of novel gestures production in children with developmental language disorder: Longitudinal findings. Applied Psycholinguistics, 43, 333-362. *post-doc in Goffman lab

*Sack L, Dollaghan C, Goffman L. (2022). Contributions of early motor deficits in predicting language outcomes among preschoolers with developmental language disorder. International Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 24, 362-374. doi: 10.1080/17549507.2021.1998629. Epub 2021 Nov 18. PMID: 34793281. *PhD student in Goffman lab

*Benham, S., & Goffman, L. (2022). A longitudinal study of the phonological organization of novel word forms in children with developmental language disorder. International Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 24:2, 212-223, DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2021.1975816 *PhD student in Goffman lab

Maguire Lab: Developmental Neurolinguistics Laboratory

(BrainLab)

Moustafa R.* and Rojas R. (2022). Article Production Accuracy of an Arabic–English Bilingual Child: A Case Study, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interests Group, vol. 7, pp. 1520-1528.”  https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_PERSP-21-00336 *UTD PhD student, completed paper with Rajul Rojas and is not working in Mandy Maquire’s lab.

Lobarinas Lab: Translational Auditory Perception Lab

Trevino, M.*, Escabi, C.*, Swanner, H., Pawlowski, K., Lobarinas, E. (2022). No Reduction in the 226 Hz Probe Tone Acoustic Reflex Amplitude Following Severe Inner Hair Cell Loss in Chinchillas. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 23(5):593-602. doi: 10.1007/s10162-022-00861-3.. *PhD student in Lobarinas lab

Trevino, M.*, Escabi, C.*, Zang, A.*, Pawlowski, K., Lobarinas, E. (2022) Effect of Selective Carboplatin-induced Inner Hair Cell Loss on Temporal Integration in Chinchillas. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 23(3):379-389. doi: 10.1007/s10162-022-00843-5. *PhD student in Lobarinas lab

Trevino, M.*, Lobarinas, E. (2022) Current topics in hearing research: Deafferentation and threshold independent hearing loss. Hearing research, 419: 108408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2021.108408  *PhD student in Lobarinas lab

Le Prell Lab: NOISE Lab

Grinn, S.K.*, and Le Prell, C. G.  (2022). Evaluation of hidden hearing loss in normal hearing firearm users. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16:1005148. doi:10.3389/fnins.2022.1005148. *Former PhD student in Le Prell lab; completed this work in Le Prell with funding from a AAAF grant awarded to Dr. Grinn when she was a PhD student.

Zaccardi, T.*, Portnuff, C., and Le Prell, C.G.  (2022). Verification of attenuation for premolded hearing protection devices designed for music, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, 37(2): 78-88; doi: 10.21091/mppa.2022.2013. *Former AuD student in lab; completed this work as AuD student research project

Le Prell, C. G. (2022). Prevention of noise-induced hearing loss using antioxidants and other drug agents: previous trial outcomes should inform future trial design. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, 36(16-18): 1171-1201, doi: 10.1089/ars.2021.0166.

Le Prell, C. G.  (2021). Investigational medicinal products for the inner ear: Review of clinical trial characteristics in ClinicalTrials.gov.  Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 32(10): 670-694, doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1735522.

Grinn, S.*, and Le Prell, C. G. (2021). Modeling individual noise-induced hearing loss risk with proxy metrics of external ear amplification, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(6), 3975-3987; https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005061 *former PhD student in Le Prell lab; this was Dr. Grnn’s dissertation research, funded by a James Jerger Fellowship Award and the a grant from the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association (TSHA) Foundation.

Shembel’s Lab: Larynx Lab

McDowell, S., Morrison, R., Mau, T., & Shembel, A. C. (2022). Clinical Characteristics and Effects of Vocal Demands in Occupational Voice Users With and Without Primary Muscle Tension Dysphonia. Journal of Voice. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.10.005.

Shembel, A.C., Nanjundeswaran, C. 2022. “Potential Biophysiological Mechanisms Underlying Vocal Fatigue.” Journal of Voice.

Nanjundeswaran, C., Shembel, A.C. 2022. “Laying the Groundwork to Study the Heterogeneous Nature of Vocal Fatigue.” Journal of Voice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.07.008.

Shembel, Adrianna C., Evgeny Kanshin, Beatrix Ueberheide, and Aaron M. Johnson. 2022. “Proteomic Characterization of Senescent Laryngeal Adductor and Plantaris Hindlimb Muscles.” The Laryngoscope . https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.29683.

Shembel, Adrianna C., Yik Siu, Tenzin Lhakhang, Leonard Ash, Drew Jones, and Aaron M. Johnson. 2022. “Metabolomic Expression of Laryngeal and Hindlimb Muscles in Adult versus Senescent Rats.” Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, May, 00034894211014692. https://doi.org/10.1177/00034894211014692.

Johnson, Aaron M., Charles Lenell, Elizabeth Severa, Denis Michael Rudisch, Robert A. Morrison, and Adrianna C. Shembel. 2022. “Semi-Automated Training of Rat Ultrasonic Vocalizations.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 16.

Shembel, Adrianna C., Cory Atkinson, and Lesley Childs. 2022. “Clinical Case Study: Muscle Tension Dysphonia.” Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00149.

Thibodeau Lab: Hearing Health Lab Publications

Thibodeau, L.,  Nielsen, R., Tran, C.,  and Jacob, R. (2021). Communicating During COVID-19: The Effect of Transparent Masks for Speech Recognition in Noise. Ear and Hearing, 42, 772-781. DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001065

Serkan, T, Stephanie Tittle, Thibodeau, L, &  Panahi, I. (2021). A Hearing Test Simulator GUI for clinical testing of speech recognition: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics: Vol 33, No 1. DOI: 10.1121/2.0001412

Patel K, Thibodeau L, McCullough D, Freeman E, Panahi I. (2021).  Development and Pilot Testing of Smartphone-Based Hearing Test Application. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11):5529.  DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18115529

Shankar, N., Bhat, G., Panahi, I., Tittle, S., & Thibodeau, L. (2021). Smartphone-based single-channel speech enhancement application for hearing aids. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150,  10.1121/10.0006045

Beula M. Magimairaj Naveen K. Nagaraj Craig A. Champlin Linda K. Thibodeau Diane F. Loeb (2021). Speech Perception in Noise Predicts Oral Narrative Comprehension in Children with Developmental Language Disorder. Front. Psychol., 21 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735026

Katz Lab: Speech Production Lab

Upadhyay, S.G., Martinez-Lucas, L., Su, B., Lin, W.G., Chien W.S, Wu, Y.T., Katz, W. Busso, C., Lee, C.C. Phonetic anchor-based transfer learning to facilitate unsupervised cross-lingual speech emotion recognition. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (in press).

Shin, S., Warner-Czyz, A., Geers, A., and Katz, W.K (2022). Speaking rate, short-term memory, and grammatical processing in prelingual cochlear implant recipients.  Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research, pp. 1-15. 

Glotfelty, A. and Katz, W. (2021). The role of visibility in silent speech tongue movements: A kinematic study of consonants Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research, 64.6S, 2377-2384.

Thibodeau Lab: Hearing Health Lab Publications

Thibodeau, L.,  Nielsen, R., Tran, C.,  and Jacob, R. (2021). Communicating During COVID-19: The Effect of Transparent Masks for Speech Recognition in Noise. Ear and Hearing, 42, 772-781. DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001065

Serkan, T, Stephanie Tittle, Thibodeau, L, &  Panahi, I. (2021). A Hearing Test Simulator GUI for clinical testing of speech recognition: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics: Vol 33, No 1. DOI: 10.1121/2.0001412

Patel K, Thibodeau L, McCullough D, Freeman E, Panahi I. (2021).  Development and Pilot Testing of Smartphone-Based Hearing Test Application. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11):5529.  DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18115529

Shankar, N., Bhat, G., Panahi, I., Tittle, S., & Thibodeau, L. (2021). Smartphone-based single-channel speech enhancement application for hearing aids. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150,  10.1121/10.0006045

Beula M. Magimairaj Naveen K. Nagaraj Craig A. Champlin Linda K. Thibodeau Diane F. Loeb (2021). Speech Perception in Noise Predicts Oral Narrative Comprehension in Children with Developmental Language Disorder. Front. Psychol., 21 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735026