Faculty
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Mary V. AndrianopoulosAssociate Professor |
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. |
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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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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 |
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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Charlena M. SeymourProfessor |
B.F.A., Howard University, 1965; M.A., Ohio State University, 1967, Ph.D., 1971; ASHA Fellow, CCC-SLP. Speech and language problems in school-aged children, fluency disorders, and multicultural issues. |
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Shelley L. VellemanAssociate Professor |
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. |
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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. Speech intelligibility, signal processing for hearing aids and cochlear implants, and electroacoustics. |
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Elena ZaretskyAssistant Professor |
B.A., Music Institute, Moscow, 1989; M.S., MGH Institute of Health Professions, 1994; Ph.D., Boston University, 2004. Typical and atypical language acquisition, verbal working memory and language comprehension, development of sound segmentation skills, and bilingual issues in language processing and use. |
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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
- Harry Seymour, Professor Emeritus













