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This report describes one collaborative, interprofessional, and interinstitutional project developed to provide clinical educational experiences specifically designed to familiarize students with other disciplines and to teach the teamwork skills necessary for practice in a rural setting. The impetus to begin the program was an outgrowth of discussions within the college...
The p value has evolved as the gold standard for evaluating much of the research evidence in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and other disciplines. Is reliance on the p value the best approach for evaluating clinical significance, or might subjectivity have a role and value in clinical practice and scientific research?...
Scholarly publishing is about 350 years old, dating back to 1665 with the publication of the propitiously titled Philosophical transactions: Giving some accompt [account] of the present understandings, studies, and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world(Ware & Mabe, 2015). The scholarly journals of the American...
This presentation explores how the brain automatically separates overlapping sounds into distinct streams, raising the question of what happens to information we aren’t actively attending to. The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Good morning. I first want to thank Karen for inviting me. I...
This presentation examines how attention shapes brain activity during listening, revealing why some people with normal hearing still struggle to follow conversations in noisy settings. https://youtu.be/H8-8W9eG-Bc The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. What I’m going to talk to you about today is sort of...
This presentation introduces a beam-forming hearing aid that uses eye tracking to help listeners focus on one voice, describing gains for hearing-impaired users but tradeoffs in spatial awareness. The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Thank you Karen, and thank you for inviting me here...
This presentation traces how children learn to pick out one voice from competing speech, revealing that even school-age kids struggle with skills adults use automatically in noisy settings. The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Thank you very much to Karen for inviting me to...
This presentation focuses on speech perception outcomes when people with one or two cochlear implants listen in test environment simulations of restaurants and cocktail parties The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I’m going to talk about speech understanding in simulations of complex environments by...
This presentation examines why older adults struggle to follow speech amid competing conversations, pointing to cognitive factors that matter even when hearing loss alone does not explain the difficulty. I’m Karen Helfer from the University of Massachusetts and today I’m going to be talking about aging and how aging affects...
Knowledge translation (KT) and implementation science (IS) are essential to enhancing the impact of clinical practice research in speech-language pathology and audiology. The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Wenonah Campbell We’re here to tell you about some new fields that we think can inform...