University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department of Communication Disorders

Faculty

Mary V. Andrianopoulos

Associate Professor
Telephone: 413-545-0551
Email:
mva@comdis.umass.edu
Web: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~mva/
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #305B

B.S., University of Vermont, 1979; M.S., University of Utah, 1983, Ph.D., 1988; CCC-SLP.

Clinical voice disorders, motor speech disorders, neurological bases of speech and language disorders, and differential diagnosis of speech and language disorders.

Jane A. Baran

Professor
Chair of the Department of Communication Disorders
Telephone: 413-545-0565
Email: baran@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #201E

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.

Frances A. Burns

Assistant Professor                                                                            
Telephone: 413-545-8468
Email: fburns@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #305

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 Choe

Assistant Professor                                                                            
Telephone: 413-545-4297
Email: ychoe@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #201C

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.

Richard L. Freyman

Professor                                                                             Undergraduate Program Director
Telephone: 413-545-0298
Email: rlf@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #201A

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.

Karen S. Helfer

Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
Telephone: 413-545-4014
Email: khelfer@comdis.umass.edu
Web: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~helfer/
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #201B

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 Kurland

Assistant Professor
Telephone: 413-545-4007
Email: jkurland@comdis.umass.edu
Web: http://blogs.umass.edu/jacquie/

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.

Patricia A. Mercaitis

Associate Professor
Telephone: 413-545-2007
Email: mercaitis@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #304

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.

Sarah F. Poissant

Associate Professor
Telephone: 413-545-4016
Email: spoissant@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #308B

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.

Shelley L. Velleman

Associate Professor
Telephone: 413-545-3636
Email: velleman@comdis.umass.edu
Web: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~velleman/
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #307B

B.A.,Wellesley College, 1976; M.A., Wisconsin at Madison, 1978, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1985; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1983; CCC-SLP.

Phonological development and disorders.

Nathaniel Anthony Whitmal III

Assistant Professor
Telephone: 413-545-4848
Email: nwhitmal@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #305A

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.

Elena Zaretsky

Assistant Professor
Telephone: 413-545-3177
Email: ezaretsky@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant St., #308

B.A., Music Institute, Moscow, 1989; M.S., MGH Institute of Health Professions, 1994; Ph.D., Boston University, 2004; CCC-SLP.

Typical and atypical language acquisition, verbal working memory and language comprehension, development of sound segmentation skills, and bilingual issues in language processing and use.

Adjunct Faculty / Emeritus Faculty

  • Uma Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor
  • Rae Banigan, Assistant Professor
  • Peter Bittel, Assistant Professor
  • Myrna Cronen, Assistant Professor
  • G. Albyn Davis, Professor Emeritus
  • Charlena Seymour, Professor Emeritus
  • Harry Seymour, Professor Emeritus
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