People

Faculty | Students | Alumni | Friends

Faculty

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

Students

Kathy Pelley
Research Assistant
Project: Transliterator Intelligibility - Cued Speech
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2006): Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech
Other projects include lag time analysis of Cued Speech transliterators

Ann Siapno
Graduate Assistant
Projects include the perception of clear speech by young, normal hearing listeners in difficult listening environments (e.g. reverberation)

Alumni

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