Faculty
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Mary V. AndrianopoulosAssociate Professor |
B.S., University of Vermont, 1979; M.S., University of Utah, 1983, Ph.D., 1988; Post-doctoral Fellow, Mayo Clinic, 1988-1990; CCC-SLP. Clinical voice disorders, multicultural voice differences, motor speech disorders, neurological bases of speech and language disorders, differential diagnosis of speech and language disorders, and developmental and acquired neurological communication disorders. |
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Jane A. BaranProfessor |
B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1972, M.A., 1974; Ph.D., Purdue University, 1979; ASHA Fellow, CCC-A/SLP. Electrophysiological testing, anatomy and physiology of the peripheral and central auditory systems, central auditory processing, and speech and language characteristics in individuals with hearing impairments. |
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Frances A. BurnsAssistant Professor |
B.A., University of North Carolina-Wilmington, 1986; M.S., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1992; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004; CCC-SLP. Language and reading intervention in children with specific language impairment from linguistically diverse backgrounds. |
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Yu-kyong ChoeAssistant Professor |
B.S., Yonsei University, 1991; M.A., Yonsei University, 1993; M.S., Arizona State University, 2003; Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2008; CCC-SLP. Computer treatment in aphasia and apraxia, augmentative and alternative communication, individual differences in understanding speech, and speech perception/comprehension and production. |
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Richard L. FreymanProfessor Undergraduate Program Director |
B.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1976; M.A., Temple University, 1978; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1984; CCC-A. Binaural and spatial hearing in anechoic and reverberent environments, and improving speech understanding in competing noise. |
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Karen S. HelferAssociate Professor |
B.S., Boston University, 1982; M.A., Indiana University, 1983; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1988; CCC-A. Geriatric changes in auditory processing, psychoacoustics, and effects of noise and reverberation on speech perception. |
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Jacquie KurlandAssistant Professor Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #307A |
B.A., New Mexico State Univeristy, 1987; M.S., University of New Mexico, 1999; Ph.D., Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder. 2006; CCC-SLP. Cognitive and neurological bases of normal and disordered speech and language; neural mechanisms supporting language recovery in chronic aphasia. |
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Patricia A. MercaitisAssociate Professor |
B.A., Boston College, 1971; M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1979, Ph.D., 1983; CCC-SLP. The clinical supervision process, clinical skill development, counseling in communication disorders, and fluency disorders. |
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Sarah F. PoissantAssociate Professor |
B.A., University of Vermont, 1992; M.A., University of Connecticut, 1994, Ph.D., 1999; CCC-A. Early identification of hearing loss, pediatric rehabilitative audiology, maximizing auditory speech perception in children with hearing loss, and cochlear implants. |
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Gwyneth C. RostLecturer |
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B.A.,Grinnell College, 1976; M.A., University of Louisville, 2002, M.S., 2005; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2011 (anticipated); CCC-SLP. Lexical-semantic development and orgnaization, impaired language development (including Specific Language Impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorders) and associated disorders in infants, children, and adolescents. |
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Nathaniel Anthony Whitmal III Assistant Professor |
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986; M.S., Northwestern University, 1993, Ph.D., 1997; M.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004; CCC-A. Speech intelligibility, signal processing for hearing aids and cochlear implants, and electroacoustics. |
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Emeritus Faculty
- G. Albyn Davis, Professor Emeritus
- Charlena Seymour, Professor Emeritus
- Harry Seymour, Professor Emeritus












