Project: Identifying age five expressive language features that best predict adult language, social, and cognitive outcomes in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Project: Use of implementation science methods to develop audibility-based counseling strategies for parents of children with hearing loss during early identification/intervention.
Topic: To assess the effects of respiratory-swallow coordination training on swallowing rehabilitation and motor learning outcomes in Parkinson's Disease.
Topic: To develop the required methodologies for calibrated (i.e. mm) spatial measurements from laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy images to investigate the effect of mass lesions on closing velocity of the vocal folds.
Topic: Determine how systematic manipulations in cognitive-language planning demands during speech tasks affect disfluency rates of individuals with Parkinson’s disease with and without cognitive impairment.
Topic: To increase understanding of distinct patterns of typical and non-typical language development of dual language learners by examining how kindergarten Spanish-English language ability profiles predict growth in English language and literacy outcomes through third grade.
Topic: The project aims to optimize the metric to assess the status of the auditory nerve using acoustically evoked compound action potentials (CAPs) recorded from cochlear implant users with preserved acoustic hearing.
Topic: Informing biobehavioral models through measuring heart rate variability and language performance across social contexts in autism spectrum disorder and typical development.
Topic: Adapting a script training protocol for Spanish speakers with aphasia to investigate mechanisms and individual characteristics that lead to treatment success.
