Department Of Hearing And Speech Sciences
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Get to know Vanderbilt’s residential faculty: Robin Michael Jones
Robin Michael Jones, associate professor of hearing and speech sciences, director of the Developmental Stuttering Laboratory and department vice chair for diversity, equity and inclusion, is the faculty head of Warren College. Read MoreAug 7, 2024
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New faculty appointed to lead residential colleges
Six faculty have been appointed as residential leaders in shaping student learning experiences beyond the classroom. Dean of Residential Colleges and Residential Education Melissa Gresalfi announced the appointments for the 2024–25 academic year. Read MoreApr 29, 2024
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Adult research participants needed for sound sensitivity study
Researchers in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences are running a study to better understand why some people are more sensitive to everyday sounds than others and how this relates to the way the brain processes sound. Read MoreApr 21, 2022
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Class of 2022: Dillon Pruett draws on personal experience in genetic research of stuttering
Class of 2022: Growing up, Dillon Pruett didn’t know anyone who stuttered like he did, but he was well aware of how widely misunderstood the disorder was, both among children and adults. As he learned more about the science behind it, he became determined to dispel those misconceptions. Today the Basic Sciences Ph.D. candidate is conducting novel genetic research to provide a better understanding of stuttering and ultimately develop new therapies to treat it. Read MoreApr 13, 2022
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Team to create customizable cochlear implant programming
A team of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop advanced, patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming. Read MoreAug 6, 2020
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Defective transporter linked to autism
A first-of-its-kind mouse model may help reveal mechanistic underpinnings for the altered behaviors of autism spectrum disorder. Read MoreJul 24, 2019
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Get free hearing screening May 1-3
In recognition of Better Hearing and Speech Month in May, the Vanderbilt Audiology Clinic in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences is offering free hearing screenings to Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center employees May 1-3. Read MoreApr 26, 2019
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Study takes personal approach to cochlear implant programming
Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently received a $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants. Read MoreFeb 21, 2019
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Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center seeking child participants for listening study
The Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center's Department of Hearing and Speech Services is looking for children between the ages of 8 and 11 years old who play a musical instrument. Read MoreAug 16, 2018
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Remote microphone system helps increase vocabulary of children with hearing loss
Children with hearing loss who use remote microphone systems (RMS) at home have access to about 42 percent more words each day, providing a critical boost to vocabulary and language learning, a Vanderbilt study has found. Read MoreApr 26, 2018
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Ph.D. student argues for early intervention in reading trouble, takes 3MT top prize
In its sixth year at Vanderbilt, the Three Minute Thesis competition drew 49 students mostly from engineering and the sciences, but future history, religion and English Ph.D.s participated as well. Read MoreMar 26, 2018
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Ohde remembered as consummate teacher, researcher
Ralph Ohde, PhD, professor emeritus of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, died Jan. 8. He was 73. Read MoreFeb 15, 2018
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New technique measures intricacies of movement, gestures
A Vanderbilt researcher has developed a new technique to measure body movement that can be employed in fields that study gestures. Read MoreOct 12, 2017
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Study reveals how brain processes spatial hearing information
Scientists have known that the brain detects where sound comes from based on a couple of major cues — when the sound hits each ear (interaural time difference) and what the sound level is when it does (interaural level difference.) Less is known, however, about where and how that spatial hearing information is processed in the brain. Read MoreSep 7, 2017
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Male adults needed for hearing study
The Vanderbilt Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences is seeking male adults to participate in a research study. The study will explore how the brain processes linguistic sounds. Read MoreMay 22, 2017
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Children 8–11 with normal hearing needed for study
The Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences is looking for research subjects to better understand how children listen in background noise. Read MoreMay 12, 2017
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff, student and alumni awards, appointments and achievements
Read about the latest faculty, staff, student and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read MoreApr 26, 2017
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Children who do and do not stutter needed for a research study
Boys and girls age 4 to 6—those who stutter and those who do not—are needed for a research study, "Emotional Processing in Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter." Read MoreDec 1, 2016
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Camarata named to NIDCD review committee
Stephen Camarata, Ph.D., professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been invited to serve a four-year term on the Communication Disorders Review Committee (CDRC) of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). Read MoreOct 27, 2016
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Chalk Fest
Professional artists, hobbyists and art enthusiasts from around the country created sidewalk chalk art in Hillsboro Village Sept. 24-25 during the second annual Nashville Chalk Fest, which benefits the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, specifically the Preschool for Children with Autism and the Mama Lere Hearing School. Read MoreSep 29, 2016