HESP Hear the Turtle Newsletter Summer 2021

Summer 2021

Hear the Turtle The Newsletter for University of Maryland Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Alumni & Supporters

Welcome HESP Ter ps!

Welcome to the 2021 online newsletter of the UMD Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences! Take a peek to find out what our alumni have been up to professionally and personally.

We hope to have a chance to highlight many of you in future issues, so please visit us at: go.umd.edu/HESPclassnotes and share your news with us!

Table of Contents

Adapting Audiology in the face of COVID-19 - Page 2 NSSLHA - Page 3 New Hires - Page 4 Interprofessional EducationEducation- Page 5 Rao Family Gift and Rao Award Winners Page 6 Mentoring Program - Page 7 Graduation, and the Class of 2021 - Pages 8-9 PhD Graduates - Pages 10-11 Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Program Capstones - Page 12 Student Notes - Page 13 Faculty News - Page 14-15 Alumni News - Page 16 Teaching and learning remotely - Page 17 Post-masters program in Bilingual Speech-Language Pathology - Page 18 Clinical outplacements: Alumni Save the Day! - Page 19 Closing Thoughts - Page 20

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Adapting Audiology in the face of COVID-19 Lacey Curry This past year we were all faced with many challenges. During this time, HESP faculty, staff, and students have demonstrated unprecedented flexibility and creativity. Specifically, while Audiology clinical faculty managed the personal challenges of navigating the drastic change in lifestyle that COVID-19 forced upon us, we also had to create ways to best serve our patients and students during this time. Last March, upon directive from Governor Hogan and the UMD president, the UMD Hearing and Speech clinic closed. We quickly implemented a simulation-based clinical teaching program as a viable educational tool for students to acquire professional competencies while we petitioned the University to allow us to resume clinical services for our patients.

In May of 2020, once PPE became readily available, we started with curbside Rebecca Higgins working device checks and troubleshooting for our patients, many of whom were quarwith cochlear implants antined at home and struggling with their hearing needs. After implementing a protocol to ensure the safety of our patients and providers, we expanded to in-person visits. At first, in-person visits were for only those patients with an urgent issue, but by July of 2020, we were confidently able to bring our audiology graduate students back into the clinic to resume hands-on clinical training at a reduced capacity. While clinical simulations provided a stress-free environment to build confidence in their clinical skills and to obtain exposure to unique case studies, nothing can truly replace the experience gained from hands-on clinical care.

In the fall of last year, we welcomed our incoming AuD first-year students with a newly written orientation on clinical safety precautions during a pandemic. For the past academic year, our clinical faculty and students have continued to provide the critical services for our patients without incident. The biggest changes felt now relate to the look and feel of our space. Our clinic and the Mary Zhou practicing imcampus in general have not felt as welcoming as before. Safety changes limit pressions on CARL partners or spouses joining in the appointment, we require distancing and covered faces, and an empty waiting room greets patients with signage on how to proceed instead of a smiling face to check you in.

The creative efforts and flexibility of our faculty and students this past year have been impressive. Although the days have been long and the stress-level has been high, we have all grown closer together even though some days we were apart. We look forward to a shared presence on campus this coming fall.

Katlin Thomas (left) and Bridget McNamara (right) practicing Real Ear measurements

Anhelina Bilokon, Brisia Gonzalez, Mary Zhou and Sydney Hancock

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NSSLHA José Ortiz

Our chapter of the National Student Speech, Language, Hearing Association (NSSLHA) has had a particularly active year. In spite of the challenges presented by the pandemic, NSSLHA hosted a range of different activities, including community service events, research presentations, fundraising, social events, and collaboration with other organizations in our field. In a typical academic year, NSSLHA does most of their work in person. Despite not being able to be physically together, the NSSLHA executive board was able to achieve a wildly successful year, not just because of the number of activities hosted but also because of how ambitious they were. Below are just a few examples of the activities that our NSSLHA students have done.

Over the course of the academic year, NSSLHA provided the opportunity for members to hear from professionals in our field.

Several of our own faculty and students, including Christina Blomquist, Eusebia Mont, and Yi Ting Huang, as well as colleagues from local organizations, presented their work at NSSLHA meetings.

Topics included research into dialect differences and cochlear implants, discussions of diversity and inclusion, collaboration in education settings. Our executive board worked with other local NSSLHA chapters, from Loyola and Towson, to discuss topics of interest from students planning on attending graduate school. In addition, our NSSLHA students collaborated with the Maryland Speech Language Hearing Association to facilitate a discussion of the use of teletherapy for speech and language treatment.

Our NSSLHA students have always been active with respect to their community service, and despite the prevailing logistical challenges, this year was no different. UMD NSSLHA participated in several service activities, such as collecting voice samples from members to submit to the VocaliD Human Voicebank, which provides customized synthetic voices fort hose who have experienced voicelessness. Our NSSLHA members also worked with the New Alternatives for Children organization to submit videos of book reading for their virtual story time project. In addition, our members collectively raised nearly $1000 in their Walk4Hearing, Operation Smile, and Charity Miles fundraisers. We commend their efforts in supporting these important causes.

We are very proud of all that our NSSLHA members have accomplished this year. This work could not have been done without our fantastic executive board, shown in the picture above. Without their dedication and effort, this year would have not been possible. As a department, we truly appreciate their work, and we owe them a debt gratitude for their contributions to our department and to the larger community.

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E to New Members of HESP!

Rachel R. Romeo is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology (UMD College of Education) and has a courtesy appointment in HESP. She holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence issued by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, as well as the MD State License. Rachel received her PhD from the Harvard-MIT Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, during which she completed her SLP training at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, and she completed postdoctoral training at Boston Children’s Hospital. Rachel’s research focuses on how children’s early experiences, both favorable and adverse, influence their neural, cognitive, and communicative development. She is especially interested in socioeconomic differences in language and literacy acquisition, and how advances in cognitive neuroscience can reveal how to best support individual children’s development.

HESP’s Social Interaction Group Network for All (SIGNA) clinical program for neurodivergent college students is proud to announce its newest member to the team, Speech-Language Pathologist-Clinical Fellow, Norah AlJunaidi (she/her). Ms. AlJunaidi is a recent graduate of The George Washington University where she earned her Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology. She has worked with adults with disabilities in the areas of social, academic, and cognitive skills in public schools, a special needs summer camp, and her graduate clinical work. These experiences inspired her to continue working with neurodivergent individuals. Ms. AlJunaidi is also passionate about social justice, intersectionality, and inclusive language, all areas that will influence her work in SIGNA. In her free time, she loves watching horror movies, roller skating, and reading sci-fi novels.

Ms. AlJunaidi is excited for the opportunity to be a part of SIGNA and cannot wait to start making a positive impact for students at UMD College Park and beyond.

Tria Farrar Rowley (Brooks) is a University of Maryland alumna, having graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History. Tria has been working with BSOS for the past eight years in the Smart Center under the Dean’s office.

She has been assisting the departments and centers within BSOS with all things travel-related. She has worked with the University’s Export Control office regarding travel to help BSOS stay within federal compliance. Tria was able to attend CBMI (College Business Management Institute) and earn a certificate with the three-year conference program. Recently she was asked to join the Dean’s office’s Research Administration training program earning certificates with the Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI).

On the personal side, as an army brat, Tria lived in various other states such as Virginia, Texas and her favorite, Alaska. But Tria mostly grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore. She is a true Baltimorean and a diehard Baltimore Ravens fan! Tria enjoys spending her free time with her husband and two daughters. Her hobbies are macramé, DIY projects, and most anything creative.

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Interprofessional Education Lisa Rickard

First year graduate students in the doctor of audiology program were fortunate to participate in an interprofessional education program called The Geriatric Interdisciplinary Assessment Team (GAIT) Project.

This project is designed by the Maryland Area Health Education Centers (MAHECs) in partnership with the Geriatrics & Gerontology Education and Research (GGEAR) Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Graduate school. It is offered to health and social science undergraduate, graduate, and professional students enrolled in a University System of Maryland institution. GAIT introduces students to comprehensive geriatric assessment and the fundamentals of interprofessional collaboration. This year, due to the restrictions imposed by COVID-19, delivery was via the Blackboard learning management system. A combination of asynchronous readings, videos, discussion posts and written assignments and a synchronous facilitated group session via Zoom was used this spring. Several sessions were offered and included topics such as “Providing Care & Service to Isolated Older Adults”, “Considerations for Recovery & Rehabilitation of Older Veterans”, and “Judgement & Insight of Medical Diagnosis Related to Dementia”.

The GAIT project provided our doctor of audiology students the opportunity to interact with students and professionals from a variety of other disciplines. Representatives from medicine, nursing and nurse practitioner, pharmacy, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and audiology were among the participants. Students engaged in team-building exercises designed to foster understanding of the value of an interdisciplinary approach to care. This helped our audiology students understand the types of services provided by other professionals and learn about the needs of older adults in our state. Likewise, other professional students learned about the profession of audiology and what audiologists bring to the table in terms of care of older adults.

Participating in this experience heightened our students’ awareness of how collaborative care promotes patient-centered care and reduces barriers to effective communication in health care teams. As healthcare in the United States transitions to a more collaborative model, competency in working on interprofessional teams is crucial for our students as they enter the workforce.

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Rao Family Expands Support to HESP Longtime supporters of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Paul Rao, HESP Ph.D. ’85, and Martina Rao added a new gift of $50,000 to a fund they had previously established. Their generosity provides additional funding to an outstanding graduate student in the department each year.

Established in 2010, their foundational gift, the Paul and Martina Rao Graduate Student Fellowship for Hearing and Speech Sciences, supports an annual award for speech-language pathology graduate students who demonstrate leadership potential and show an interest in neurogenic communication disorders.

Paul & Martina Rao

Dr. Rao has served as a visiting professor in the department for many years, and is a past member of the BSOS Board of Visitors and a past chair of the HESP Advisory Board.

Dr. Rao said the original gift was made to memorialize a friend and colleague, Dr. Carol Frattali, a visiting HESP professor. “Carol died too young at 50, and was a true icon in quality and in outcomes in our field,” Dr. Rao said.

When discussing the conclusion of that gift, Mrs. Rao wanted to make another gift, both to strengthen the department and to continue to honor Frattali.

“The greatest cause we have been involved in during our lives is supporting gifted HESP students. I want us to continue the impact on the next generation of speech-language pathologists,” Mrs. Rao said. “I may not be a Terp, but we love the department.”

The college and the department wish to not only thank the Raos for their generosity, but to affirm that Mrs. Rao is, indeed, a Terp for life.

2021 Rao award winners

Bushra Lohrasbi

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HESP Mentoring Program Stephanie Grissom

The HESP mentoring program kicked into high gear during the 2020-2021 academic school year.

Over twenty-five (25) alumni served as mentors for our current majors. Mentors provide current students with career guidance and advice, and meet with their mentees either in person or virtually.

Mentor-mentee matching began in September 2020 and was based on students’ career interests and alumni currently working in those specialized areas. The mission of the mentoring program is to create an open space for students to directly connect with HESP alumni. Students were able to develop a personal connection and create an individualized pathway to reach their educational and career goals. Associate Clinical Professor Kathy Dow Burger, alumna Allison Temple (UMD ‘10), and HESP undergraduate advisor Stephanie Grissom served as co-coordinators of the program.

Panel Discussion with HESP Mentors ────

‘MEET THE MENTORS’ Panel Discussion with Professionals in the HESP Mentor Program Did you miss the BSOS Career Chat? No need to fret!

HESP Alum Allison Temple (CCC-SLP; UMD ‘10) and Barbara Libbin (Au.D.,CCC-A; UMD ’04, ‘08) are part of the HESP Mentoring Program.

Did you know that there are over 25+ mentors in the HESP Mentoring Program Spring Event Flyer Mentoring program? Did you know that they all are UMD Alum who are licensed Speech Language Pathologists (M.A./M.S., CCCSLP) and Clinical Audiologists (Au.D.,CCC-A) currently working in their fields? Are you curious about working a clinical setting?

Educational setting? Private Practice? Do you have questions about your future career in Audiology or Speech Language Pathology? This is the event for you!

Ask questions directly to the mentors! ──── Members of HESP Faculty will be in attendance ────

Highlighted virtual events included an article discussion about diversity and inclusion held in February 2021 and the “Meet The Mentors” panel discussion held at the end of the semester. Lead panelists Allison Temple and Barbara Libbin (UMD ’04, ’08) were joined by fellow alumni to answer direct questions from students. The panel was also joined by Assistant Clinical Professors Eliza Thompson and Lacey Curry who shared valuable insight.

Breakout rooms for SLP and AUD ──── Create positive connections

Allison and Barbara also participated in the BSOS Alumni Career Chat series hosted by The Joel & Kim Feller Center for BSOS Academic Advising & Career Planning. The Chat series connects industry specific alumni/employers with BSOS over Zoom. Students who attended learned HESPmajors MENTORING PROGRAM about the CSD career field, gained application tips for their industry of interest, and much more.

The panel will also be joined by HESP Assistant Clinical Professors End of Semester Event Eliza Thompson (Ed.S, M.S..CCC-SLP) and Lacey Curry (Au.D.,CCC-A) Zoom Meeting The HESP Mentoring Program plans to offer more events during the next academic year and supwho will share insight and introduce CLISO. port the Feller Center initiatives.

RSVP Here Thursday, May 6, 2021 6pm

Being a mentor is a great opportunity to give back to the field and the department, and to be involved in student training! If you are interested in being a mentor, please email Stephanie Grissom at grissoms@umd.edu

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Honoring the HESP Class of 2021 Sarah Sohns & Lisa Rickard

Michaela Ehm, one of our student speakers, speaking during the ceremony

Graduation is an important tradition that most of us love to share with our closest friends and family. Graduation ceremonies represent the culmination and recognition of years of hard work. This year, graduates of the Hearing and Speech Sciences Department had the opportunity to participate in a University of Maryland campus-wide in-person graduation ceremony as well as virtual ceremonies offered by the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Hearing and Speech Sciences Department.

Faculty and staff of the Hearing and Speech Sciences Department were committed to making this year’s departmental graduation celebration unique and memorable for our graduates despite the restrictions imposed by COVID 19. On May 20, 2021, we came together online in order to recognize our graduates and their outstanding accomplishments. Three hundred proud family members, friends, faculty, staff, and loved ones gathered on Zoom to hear student speakers from each cohort share words of inspiration and encouragement. Each graduate’s name was read, and outstanding student award winners from each of our programs as well as special endowed grant winners were announced.

After the ceremony, virtual breakout rooms were offered to allow students the chance to socialize, share memories, congratulate each other, and share future plans. Although the format was different this year, our enthusiasm for celebrating our graduates’ accomplishments during these trying times has never been higher. Congratulations to the Hearing and Speech Sciences class of 2021!

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Graduation, Continued Departmental Award Winners Outstanding Au.D. Student

Outstanding SLP Student

Outstanding SLP Student & SLP Student Speaker Kelly Cooke Johnson

Dani Otarola Au.D. Student Speaker

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Elisa Rademacher

Chidinma Ogbonna

Danielle Addington

Students Taylor Trent, Michaela Ehm, Cameron Barnes, Yomna Nassar, Robyn Toler, Alessandra Molina, and Jillian Weinman are this year’s recipients of the Excellent Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award, and Seongsil Lee is the recipient of this year’s MCM Fund for Research Excellence. This award is designed to support independent student research projects, and is made possible by an anonymous donation to the Department and by other donations by faculty, alumni, and friends.

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PhD graduates HESP has had a large number of PhD students complete their training in the past year! Read below to learn more about our recent doctoral graduates (statements written by their mentors).

Jaclyn (Jaci) Schurman is the epitome of a “Terp for Life.” She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Hearing and Speech Sciences in 2011 and returned immediately to enroll in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Audiology. While working on her Au.D. degree, Jaci was a graduate research assistant on collaborative projects between Drs. Sandra Gordon-Salant and Douglas Brungart of the Audiology and Speech Center at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Her research experience resulted in a first-authored publication (Schurman et al., 2017, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America) and piqued her interest in pursuing a career in research. After earning her Au.D. degree in 2015, Jaci returned to UMD to work on her Ph.D. with her former co-mentors. Her dissertation, entitled “Effect of age, hearing loss and cognition on speech comprehension and speech intelligibility performance” addressed a unique set of questions that reflect Jaci’s long-standing interest in the effects of challenging listening situations (i.e., listening in noise and listening to fast speech) on speech comprehension performance, and the impact of advanced age and age-related hearing loss on this essential communication ability. Her highly successful defense was conducted virtually on December 4, 2020. With the awarding of her Ph.D., Jaci becomes one of very few “triple crown” HESP Terps, having earned a B.A., Au.D., and Ph.D. from the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences. Jaci is now embarking on her professional career as supervising Research Audiologist at the Audiology and Speech Center at Walter Reed. Together with husband Matt and son Ben (age 1.5 years), Jaci enjoys leisure time with family and friends, especially at the beach. Congratulations and Kudos to Dr. Dr. Jaclyn Schurman! (by Sandra Gordon-Salant) We are delighted to announce that Julie Cohen earned the Ph.D. degree in November, 2020.

Julie has shown steadfast determination toward her goal of earning her Ph.D. She rose through the ranks in the department, beginning as an undergraduate HESP major, continuing as a graduate student in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Audiology, and finally returning to pursue her Ph.D. degree after a six-year stint as a research audiologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Throughout her time at UMD, she was a research assistant in Dr. Sandra Gordon-Salant’s Hearing Research Lab, eventually taking over as managing graduate research assistant. Julie’s research has been directed at understanding the interplay between numerous listener and environmental factors that contribute to speech understanding in complex listening situations. Her dissertation examined the impact of a familiar voice, such as that of a spouse, on speech recognition in simulated and naturalistic noisy settings (e.g., a noisy bar). Her findings clearly showed that in noise, a familiar voice is beneficial to speech recognition by younger and older listeners when it is the target voice, but that the benefit of a familiar voice on tasks that tax working memory is limited to those listeners with better cognitive abilities. These findings are critically important for helping individuals acquire strategies that can maximize their ability to understand speech in everyday, noisy settings. Julie currently is a post-doctoral research associate on the NIH-funded Neuroplasticity in Auditory Aging project at the University of Maryland. When she isn’t doing research, she enjoys outdoor activities and cooking with daughter, Nora (age 3), and husband, Cory Oppenheimer. Congratulations, Julie, on this outstanding achievement! (by Sandra Gordon-Salant) Amritha Mallikarjun began her time at UMD studying bilingualism. But after a lab meeting at which we discussed how different species might compare at listening in noise, she immediately decided she wanted to test dogs. She began reading papers on canine cognition, piloted a variety of testing methods – and this drove the formation of the UMD Canine Language Perception Lab at UMD, which has now tested well over 700 dogs. She began exploring impact of ambient environmental noise on speech perception in both infants and dogs Subsequent work examined which aspects of speech dogs paid the most attention to – she found that dogs primarily focus on vowels, and tend to pay less attention to consonants (so a dog named Holly would still treat Folly or Polly as her name, but not Hayley.) She also showed that dogs recognize the specific language spoken in their home (say, English vs. Spanish). She has spent this past year as a post-doc at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center, a national research and development center for detection dogs, where she has been examining such topics as dogs’ ability to sniff out COVID19, the time course over which their scent detection ability is reduced following a nasal vaccination, and cognitive factors that contribute to working dog success. So congratulations Amritha! (by Rochelle Newman)

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PhD graduates, cont.

Congratulations to Arifi Waked for successfully defending her dissertation research in September 2020, overcoming tremendous obstacles posed by COVID-19, including relocations and quarantines. Her research was at the intersection of communicative disorders, language science, and psychology. Specifically, her dissertation sought to understand how speech perception performance in bilingual children with cochlear implants is affected by non-auditory factors related to cognitive, speech, and language abilities. Arifi is currently working as a scientific writer and statistician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, having already published her first paper from that position. So congratulations Arifi! (by Matt Goupell)

Brittany Jaekel was perhaps the best writer to grace our department, having come into the field from a creative writing background. Over the years, she became a highly productive scientific writer, with four papers now published in top journals in the field on how speech is perceived in people with cochlear implants (bionic auditory prostheses that partially restore hearing).

The main focus of her dissertation work was understanding how intermittent background noise greatly impedes speech perception with cochlear implants; the reason is that the typical speech repair mechanisms in the brain appear to not work well in this clinical population. Brittany is also an active poet, including having published the only known poem that was based on the speech stimuli she used in her experiments. Brittany obtained a certificate in advanced state-of-the-art statistics, for which she was able to teach our entire department about the best ways to analyze our data. She was an excellent mentor to other students, including being a primary mentor of a highly ambitious and now published undergraduate honors thesis. Since graduating in 2020, Brittany has moved back to her home state of Minnesota, and is currently working as a medical writer that provides guidance to the agency in charge of European medical device regulation. (by Matt Goupell) Working with Julianne Garbarino was the best reward that a faculty member can imagine. She always gave 110% of herself in any activity. As a student, she mentored a large number of undergraduate students in lab and in the Language Sciences program. She worked with our PEERS social skills training groups in clinic. She guest taught lectures in our MA program. She tested children for our federal grant to discover predictors of stuttering remission. She volunteered and recruited participants at national self-help group meetings for children and adults who stutter. She even helped to construct the lab furniture we used over three separate moves to new office space during her time at Maryland! Throughout it all, Julianne was also superlatively productive across two distinct areas of research: language disorders and stuttering. She has already presented an astounding 12 presentations at peer-reviewed national meetings, co-authored three journal articles in top journals in our field and co-authored a textbook chapter in the area of stuttering. These are in addition to the 2-3 major articles that are being readied for publication based on Dr. Garbarino’s candidacy and dissertation research. Her candidacy research examined language production in teens and young adults with autism. Her dissertation essentially encompassed two separate questions about language in children who stutter and therapeutic recommendations to their parents. This is a body of work that earns faculty members tenure at some institutions in our field, all done before receiving her doctoral degree.

Julianne’s next stop is as a member of the AmplioSpeech initiative, a multi-national research and practice group bringing therapy resources to underserved regions in the US, as well as exciting technological advances to our practice. We wish Julianne well, and know that she will be a compelling success story wherever she works. Talent, initiative and heart – Dr. Garbarino has it all. (by Nan Ratner)

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Class of 2021 Capstones

Kayla Horning

Effective Strategies for Vocabulary Development in Spanish-speaking ELL Students: Intentional vs. Incidental Learning

Dani Otarola

The Relationship Between Language Experience And Performance On Language Assessment Measures In Typically-developing Spanish-English Bilingual Children

Betsy Gorman

Parental Involvement in Intervention for Bilingual Children with Language Impairment

Rachel Egan

The Efficacy of Bilingual AAC Intervention for Bilingual Children with Complex Communication Needs

Alexandra Peterson

Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: Does Perception of Accommodation Effectiveness Relate to Level of Adjustment to College?

Mandy Giordano

Code-Switching Frequency: Impact of Executive Functioning Deficits Secondary to Traumatic Brain Injury

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Alyssa Jordan

Monolingual vs Bilingual Intervention for Bilinguals Who Stutter

Emily Zeller

Teacher Attitudes and Outcomes: Harsher Discipline of Black Students Presenting with Behaviors Associated with Language Disorders as Compared to White Peers

Rebecca Willman

The Efficacy of Parent-Child Dialogic Book Reading for Latino Dual Language Learners with Primary Language Impairment

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Student Notes PhD student Rebecca Bieber received a shared first-place award for the student poster competition at fall’s meeting of the Acoustical Society of America!

Undergraduate student Jessica Lee was chosen for the Maryland Summer Scholars Program.

First-year AuD students participating in Walk-4-Hearing event

The Aphasia Lab has a sociallydistanced end-of-year lab party.

Undergraduate students Allison Vance (left) & Erin Doyle (right) & both were selected as 2021 recipients of the Karin E. Young Memorial Scholarship for students interested in pursuing a degree in Audiology.

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Faculty Notes Matt Goupell has just been made a full Professor.

He has also taken over as the new Director of our Ph.D. program.

Samira Anderson is our new Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Admissions Committee.

Colleen Worthington is taking over as Director of the MA-SLP program, and is also a new member of the UMD Senate Executive Committee.

Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah received the Outstanding Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) Award for 2021.

Congratulations to HESP faculty Eric Hoover, José Ortiz, and Nicole Nguyen, each of whom has had a child in the past year!

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Faculty Notes, cont.

Sandra Gordon-Salant and Catherine Carr received funding from NIH to continue the Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing Training Program.

Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah received funding from the NIH for the project, “Diagnostic Markers of language impairment in bilingual adults.”

Jared Novick received funding from the NSF for the project, “Collaborative Research: Direct impacts of executive functions on language comprehension: Evidence from eye movements and electrophysiology.”

Yi Ting Huang, Jan Edwards, Rochelle Newman and postdoc Julie Cohen are among a group whose NSF proposal “Collaborative research: Advancing language research and outreach in a language museum” is being recommended for funding.

Matt Goupell and colleagues received a Maryland Industrial Partnerships grant, “Personalized Headphone Audio: Beyond HRTFs.” Yi Ting Huang and colleagues received funding from the NSF for “Rapid: Collaborative Research: Using Dense Sampling to Understand How Social distancing and Other Pandemic Responses Affect Language Development.”

She also received funding from the NIH for “Recasting and Book Reading under Ideal (Dose-controlled) and Typical (Dose-variable) Conditions: The Role of Fidelity and Adherence in Production and Comprehension Outcomes for Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).”

Sandra Gordon-Salant, Samira Anderson, Matt Goupell, and AuD student Amara Ezenwa received a Diversity Supplement to the P01 award “Neuroplasticity in Auditory Aging.”

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Alumni News Congratulations to Melissa Stockbridge (Ph.D., 2018) and Kyle Mastalinski on the birth of their daughter, Josephine Rose.

Krista Voelmle (B.A., 2014) defended her PhD at the U. of Kansas, married pilot Charles Kirchner, moved back to the area, and is now Lead Speech-Language Pathologist at Impressions Pediatric Therapy in MD. Maureen Shader (Ph.D., 2019) will start as an Assistant Professor at Purdue in January, 2022.

Matt Winn (Ph.D., 2011) received tenure at the University of Minnesota.

Maura O’Fallon (M.A., 2014) received a grant from NIH to fund her Ph.D. work at Temple.

Amritha Mallikarjun (Ph.D., 2020) appeared on CBS’ Mission Unstoppable to talk about her dissertation research.

A big congratulations to HESP alumni Alanna Schloss, Megan Gehman, Taylor Bakal, Kelly Cooke Johnson, Andrea Pham, Emily Waddington, and Seongsil Lee on the publication of their Undergraduate Honors, MA and AuD theses!

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Teaching and Learning Remotely Teaching took on new forms this past year, as we all dealt with the challenges of the pandemic.

Classes, public lectures, clinical therapy sessions, and one-onone meetings all moved to a virtual format.

And it wasn’t only lecture-style events and small group meetings that had to take place remotely - team-builduing exercises (such as our improv session at orientation, left) and group meetings (such as for our Cultural & Linguistic Diversity emphasis program, below) moved virtual as well, as did our LEAP preschool program: Imagine

Orientation, Fall 2021

trying to maintain a toddler’s attention on a therapy lesson over zoom!

Maintaining attention isn’t a problem limited to toddlers, however - home environments in general provide much more opportunity for distraction, particularly for those trying to simultaneously home-school young children. Equally difficult, but in a different way, was creating an environment conducive to deep, thoughtful, real-time discussions among groups, such as in our upper-level seminar courses. And most faculty reported having to make extra efforts to get to know their students in this new format.

Students and faculty in the Cultural & Linguistic But I believe Diversity Emphasis that learning to Program, meeting over Zoom (above) and then adjust for these meeting in person for the first time this summer (right). changes made us all better teachers!

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Clinical outplacements - alumni save the day!

With the pandemic, many hospitals and schools were under new restrictions. Many of our clinical partners in the community were unable to accept speech students, and students had clinical placements canceled. Everyone was anxious about making sure students got all of the hours they needed to graduate. HESP Alumni stepped in and played a key role in helping speech students continue their education during this stressful time.

In the end, everyone graduated on time!

Ashley Booterbaugh is learning to use an endoscope to conduct a swallowing eval during her placement at University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center. Alumni Nisha Sharma and Kelly (Cavanaugh) Crabtree played a critical role in supporting Ashley through the pandemic.

A special thanks to the Alumni who made that possible: Molly Grigg, Kelly (Cavanaugh) Crabtree, Nisha Sharma, Donna Saur, Audrey Tornblom, Amelie Bail, Delany Kelly, Leslie Wof-

ford, Maraih Pranger, Kimberly Wilson, Christine Del Toro, Jessica (Pecora) Duran, Suzanne Didjoli, Amanda Guenther, Arllette Schneider.

If you maintain your CCCs, and are interested in mentoring speech or audiology students, we would love to talk with you about opportunities.

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Kayla Horning is being scoped by her placement supervisor Kelli Skinner, during her clinical outplacement at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center.

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Issue: Summer 2021

Faculty members Lisa Rickard (left) and Yi Ting Huang (right) lecturing over Zoom, our new normal from this past year

Rochelle Newman giving her Distinguished Scholar-Teacher lecture in April.

From Rochelle Newman, Chair of the Dept. of Hearing & Speech Sciences: As we come to the end of a remarkable and unprecedented year, we’re incredibly proud of the academic excellence and clinical services we were able to provide these past 18 months. As we look to the fall semester and a return to normal operations, we’re glad to be able to once again offer all our clinical services once again.

Our clinicians and researchers are providing the next generation of audiologists and speech-language pathologists with revolutionary best practices and research to help more people every day. Please consider supporting our clinical efforts by donating today to the Hearing and Speech Clinic Fund. To learn more about our clinics and services, visit hespclinic.umd.edu.

Please consider donating to HESP to support our initiatives and students Our mailing address is: Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences University of Maryland 0100 Samuel J. LeFrak Hall 7251 Preinkert Dr. College Park, MD 20742 HESP URL: http://hesp.umd.edu/

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