Successfully Defended PhD Dissertations
Emily Lundberg
Characterizing Variability in Clinical Hearing Aid Fittings
Advisor: Kathryn Arehart
Shirley Huang
Emotion Language Skills and Language Development in Typically Developing Bilingual Children and Children At-Risk for a Language Impairment
Advisor:Â Pui Fong Kan
Hannah Glick
Neurocognitive Function in Age-Related Hearing Loss: Effects of Early Treatment with Hearing Aids
Advisor: Anu Sharma
Ramesh Muralimanohar
Analyzing the Contribution of Envelope Modulations to the Intelligibility of Reverberant Speech
Advisor:Â Kathryn Arehart
Marcia Walsh-Aziz
Theory of Mind Development in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Elementary Students
Advisor:Â Brenda Schick
Daniel Haught
Bullying Prevention in Special Education: A Multimethod Investigation of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
Advisor:Â Brenda Schick
Paula Messamer
Self-Reported and Partner-Reported Functional Communication and Their Relation to Language and Non-Verbal Cognition in Mild to Moderate Aphasia
Advisor:Â Gail Ramsberger
Garrett Cardon
Somatosensory Cross-Modal Reorganization in Children with Cochlear Implants
Advisor:Â Anu Sharma
Nicholas Walker
Neurophysiological Correlates of Word Recognition in Noise in Adults and Children
Advisor:Â Phillip Gilley
Mallene Wiggin
Describing, Predicting and Impacting Speech and Language Development in Young Children with Hearing Loss
Advisor: Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
In-Ki Jin
Development of the Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) for Korean
Advisor:Â Kathryn Arehart
Naomi Croghan
Perceived Quality of Recorded Music Processed through Compression Hearing Aids
Advisor:Â Kathryn Arehart
Kimberly Frey
Patient Characteristics and Treatment Components that Mediate Improvements in Connected Speech in Persons with Chronic Post-Stroke Aphasia: A Delphi Study Involving a Communication Disorders Expert Panel
Advisor:Â Gail Ramsberger
Amy Nash-Kille
Inter-Trial Coherence as a Marker of Cortical Dys-Synchrony in Children with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD)
Advisor:Â Anu Sharma
Carolyn Rickard
Multimodal Cues in the Socialization of Joint Attention in Young Children with Varying Degrees of Vision: Getting the POINT Even When You Can't See It
Advisor:Â Brenda Schick
Michele Berke
Deaf Parents with Deaf Children and Hearing Parents with Hearing Children: A Comparison of Shared Reading Experiences
Advisor:Â Brenda Schick
Cory Portnuff
Music-Induced Hearing Loss from Portable Listening Devices: Evaluating the Factors that Influence Risk Behaviors
Advisor:Â Kathryn Arehart
Melinda Anderson
The Role of Temporal Fine Structure in Sound Quality Perception
Advisor:Â Kathryn Arehart
Jamie Bogle
The Effect of Cochlear Implantation on the Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential Response in Children and Adult Participants
Advisor:Â Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
Tammy Fredrickson
Visual Reinforcement Infant Speech Discrimination: Developing a Method of Performance Analysis
Advisor:Â Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, Phillip Gilley
Ryan Pollard
Motor Preparation Preceding Stuttered and Nonstuttered Speech
Advisor: Phillip Gilley