Good discussions at NWAV10/20/2021
Dept. collaborations on pandemic effects8/17/2021 Every field has been impacted by the changes to daily life brought by the pandemic, and speech therapy is no exception. For the last year, I've been involved with a multi-part collaboration with colleagues in my department studying different aspects of these pandemic effects. Dr. Sabiha Parveen and clinical supervisor Sherri Norton have been interviewing our clients and therapists around the state about impacts of teletherapy and other changes to speech therapy during the pandemic. Dr. John Tetnowski is leading a study on the impact of wearing masks on stuttering. Both projects involve several student researchers, and initial results will be presented in talks at ASHA and OSHA this fall.
My second article with Paul De Decker in Newfoundland has been published in Language and Linguistics Compass. This journal spans linguistic disciplines to reach a broader audience. This paper compares recordings made on various popular consumer devices (smartphones, laptops, iPad) to professional equipment. Fortunately, vowel patterns are pretty comparable across devices, so researchers can collect audio data from afar, even after the pandemic subsides.
First "Zoom quality" article published2/18/2021 The first journal paper has been published from my summer project with Paul De Decker from Memorial University of Newfoundland: doi: 10.1121/10.0003529. For a JASA special-issue series on effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on acoustic research, we compared vowel and nasalization measurements taken from 3 apps (Zoom, Skype, Teams) with 4 transmission conditions/wifi connection strengths to those taken from professional equipment. Overall, vowel measurements were similar enough for many studies of vowel spaces and mergers, but nasalization measures were less consistent across conditions.
ASA: A week online12/11/2020
Psychosocial data for kids who stutter7/31/2016 Started a collaboration with Julie Anderson in IU Speech & Hearing. She works with preschoolers who stutter and has collected parent-reports on their psychosocial behaviors using the same scales I analyzed for CI users in the JDSDE paper. We'll see how they compare to our CI users and other preschoolers.
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