Research
Research
The Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences possesses research laboratory
space and state-of-the-art equipment to conduct a wide range of investigations
on both the normal and abnormal production, perception, recognition, and
understanding of speech and language. Research includes studies of auditory
evoked potentials, stuttering, speech perception, articulation, language,
and motor speech disorders, and vocal pathologies.
Other
ongoing research projects investigate communication assessment and rehabilitation
techniques including hearing aids, auditory processing in children and adults,
hearing loss in musicians in conjunction with the Center for Music and Medicine,
and the investigation of auditory cortical neuron pattern processing studies
being carried out in collaboration with the Department of Biological Sciences.