Good discussions at NWAV10/20/2021
DXDX honors class9/2/2021
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.
BAG-BEG-BAGEL paper published in LVC6/30/2021
ASA online6/8/2021 This week, I'm giving two talks at the Acoustical Society of America spring meeting, which is all online this year. ASA has two conferences a year, usually almost 5 weekdays each, but this time, it's three days, all online, focusing on one theme per day, with panels of invited pre-recorded talks followed by submitted live 5-minute lightning talks. The topics are great:
HLAA talk5/20/2021
Three Spring Defenses5/4/2021 Three of my students successfully defended their work this spring!
Student award: Holistic Science Prize4/20/2021 My Linguistics student Mik Martinelli's dissertation was awarded the Holistic Science Prize! The award is a great honor! It is sponsored by the OSU Math department and occurs across the College of Arts & Sciences in recognition of pre-doctoral excellence in interdisciplinary science. Mik's dissertation uses methods from three linguistic disciplines to examine communication strategies among people with aphasia and their nurses and speech-language pathologists. She hopes to continue bringing her expertise in linguistic methods to improve quality of life for adults with acquired communication disorders like aphasia and dysarthria secondary to conditions like stroke, palsies, or Parkinson disease.
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