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Three Audiology Doctoral Students to present at the 2009 American Auditory Society Meeting.

ERPs Reflect the Effect of Background Babble on Word Processing by Laurie Romei (student), Ilse Wambacq, Janet Koehnke, Joan Besing
Neurophysiological Measurement of Auditory Segregation in Middle Age by Ilse Wambacq, Janet Koehnke, Joan Besing, Laurie Romei (student), AnnMarie DePierro (student), David Cooper (student)

Angie Prasad, an SLP masters student is MSU's nominee for the 2009 Marni Reisberg Award
Ilse Wambacq, PhD was awarded a second year of funding for her research grant from the Deafness Research Foundation. Her project is titled: Neurophysiological and Psychoacoustic Indices of Binaural Processing in Adults.

Four students in the Audiology docotral program were awarded their Doctor of Science in Audiology at the Montclair State University commencement ceremony on May 23, 2008. The students, their research advisor and the title of their research is listed below:

Dr. Meghan Kluz, directed by Dr, Janet Koehnke, Sound Localization in a Virtual Environment by Children with a Unilateral Hearing Loss
Dr. Alexandra Camacho-Luna, directed by Dr. Janet Koehnke, A Spanish Test of Speech Intelligibility Gain (S-SIG)
Dr. Matthew Nesbitt, directed by Dr. Joan Besing, A Portable Auditory Screening Environment (PASE)
Dr. Jonathan Leiterman, directed by Dr. Claire Taub, Contralateral Otoacoustic Emission and Speech Intelligibility Gain

Janel Modoski, an SLP masters student is MSU's nominee for the 2008 Marni Reisberg Award
Speech-Language Pathology masters students John Fulweiler Sarah Granquist and Christmas Pammit have been selected for membership in Alpha Epsilon Lamba. This is an Honor Society for Graduate and Professional Students.
Mary Boyle, PhD was named a Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association in November 2007.
Ms. Faith Parker, a doctoral student in audiology, has received the 2007 Student Research Grant in Audiology from the American Speech-Language- Hearing Foundation. more>>
The Clinical Doctoral Program (ScD) program in Audiology was awarded accreditation by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Ilse Wambacq, PhD was awarded a research grant from the Deafness Research Foundation. Her project is titled: Neurophysiological and Psychoacoustic Indices of Binaural Processing in Adults.
Seven students in the Audiology doctoral program were awarded their Doctor of Science in Audiology at the Montclair State University commencement ceremony on 18th. The students, their research advisor and the title of their research is listed below:

Dr. Antony Cardenas, directed by Dr. Janet Koehnke, Reaction Time and Speech Understanding in Bilingual and Monolingual Listeners
Dr. Meghan Kluz, directed by Dr. Janet Koehnke, Virtual Sound Localization by Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss
Dr. Irene Lin, directed by Dr. Janet Koehnke, Localization by Motorcyclists Wearing Hearing Protection
Dr. Courtney Oliveto, directed by Dr. Joan Besing, Soundfield Systems, Not Just for Kids
Dr. Sergine Pascal, directed by Dr. Kelly Shea-Miller, The Effect of Rate of Change of a Continuously Looped Stimulus on AAC Amplitude,  Latency and Morphology
Dr. Eric Sandler, directed by Dr. Kelly Shea-Miller, Perceived Reasonableness of Cost and Hearing Aid Satisfaction
Dr. Laura Wheaton directed by Dr. Kelly Shea-Miller, Screening Young Children for Auditory Processing Disorders
Claire Taub, D.Arts, CCC-A has been named the Interim Dean of the College and Humanities and Social Science. She has been the chair of the department of communication sciences and disorders.

Janet Koehnke, PhD, CCC-A was elected as chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Three Audiology Doctoral Students presented at the American Academy of Audiology Meeting in April 2007

Irene Lin, BA presented her clinical research project titled "Localization by Motorcyclists Wearing Hearing Protection"

Courtney Oliveto, BS presented her clinical research project titled "Soundfield Systems, Not Just
for Kids. "


Laura Wheaton, BA presented her clinical project titled
"Screening Young Children For Auditory Processing Disorders"
Accreditation Site Visit Scheduled for Audiology Program:

On February 22nd and 23rd 2007 the audiology doctoral program had a site visit from the Council on Academic Accreditation.  A team of four individuals were on campus for two days to evaluate the program which is in candidacy status and applied for full accreditation.
Doctoral Student Presents at an International Meeting:

Faith Parker, student in the research doctoral track of the audiology program, presented a poster at the 2007 meeting of the American Auditory Society held in Scottsdale, AZ in March.  Her paper is entitled, Auditory evoked potentials to interaural time differences in 500 and 4000 Hz click trains.

Doctoral Student receives grant from Special Olympics

Matthew Nesbitt, a student in the clinical audiology doctoral program has received a grant from Special Olympics to support his clinical research project - A Portable Auditory Screening Environment (PASE)

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