People

Faculty | Students | Alumni | Friends

Faculty

Jean C. Krause, PhD
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Students

Abby Bennett
Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Transliterator Intelligibility - Cued Speech

Ari Brooks
Audiology Doctoral Project: Clear Speech Benefit - Relationship to Gap Detection Ability

Ann Siapno
Graduate Assistant
Audiology Doctoral Project: Intelligibility of Clear Speech - Older, Hearing Impaired Listeners
Other projects include the perception of clear speech by young, normal hearing listeners in difficult listening environments (e.g. reverberation)

Alumni

Karyl Hobbs
Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2008-2009)
Acculturation of Deaf Children - Role of Mothers

Kathy Pelley
Research Assistant (2005-2007)
Masters thesis (2007-2008): Transliterator Intelligibility - Cued Speech
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2006): Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech
Other projects included lag time analysis of Cued Speech transliterators

Morgan Tessler
Research Assistant (2007-2008)
Project: Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2005, co-authored with Dana Husaim): Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech

Kendall Tope
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2008)
Project: Speech Intelligibility of Difficult Academic Materials - Monolingual vs. Bilingual Listeners

Jane Smart
Masters thesis (2006-2007)
Project: Psychometric functions of clear and conversational speech for young normal hearing listeners in noise

Billie Jo Shaw
Masters thesis (2005-2006)
Project: Intelligibility of clear speech at normal rates for older, hearing-impaired adults

Jessica Lindsay
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2006)
Project: Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech

Dana Husaim
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2005)
Project: Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech (thesis co-authored with Morgan Tessler)

Stacy Kile
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2005)
Project: Investigation of methods for evaluating accuracy of Conceptually Accurate Signed English transliterators

Athina Panagiotopoulos
Masters thesis (2004-2005)
Project: Intelligibility of clear speech at normal rates for older, normal hearing adults

Wendy Park
Graduate Assistant (2003-2005)
Projects included the perception of clear speech by young, normal hearing listeners and lag time analysis of Cued Speech transliterators

Friends and Associates

Louis D. Braida - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Judy Kegl, PhD - University of Southern Maine
Brenda Schick, PhD - University of Colorado at Boulder
Steven Surrency, MA - Communication Sciences and Disorders at USF