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Communicative Disorders
- Crary, Michael A.
- Hall, James
- Harnsberger, James
- Holmes, Alice E.
- Le Prell, Colleen
- Logan, Kenneth J.
PHHP International Trips 2007
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Crary, Michael A; Ph.D.
Dr. Michael Crary and Dr. Mann (Social and Behavioral Science) are directing the first multisite, international randomized controlled trial on swallowing therapy. This study includes three hospitals in Australia and two in the USA. Dr Crary also lectures internationally on a regular basis including the UK and France this past year and in Japan next year. He is developing a research exchange relationship with different institutions in Japan and will host the first Japanese research scholar in the second half of 2008.
Hall, James; Ph.D.
- A. Dr. Hall helped facilitate a signed agreement with the University of Jordan in Amman for a teaching collaboration, with the goal of helping the University of Jordan to develop a Masters program in audiology. One of his former Ph.D. students at UF (Nadia Abdulhaq, Ph.D.) is now on the faculty in Jordan.
- B. Dr. Hall has been appointed at the University of Pretoria in South Africa to an academic position referred to as "Extraordinary Professor." This non-salaried position is in recognition of Dr. Hall's mentorship of an audiology faculty member there, Dr. De Wet Swanepoel.
- C. Dr. Hall is involved in discussions with universities in Colombia collaborating to develop a Masters degree program in audiology at one of the universities in that country.
- D. Dr. Hall has served on an official Advisory Committee for a proposed Doctor of Audiology program at the University of Puerto Rico. The program was approved by the University.
- E. Dr. Hall is on an official EHDI (Early Hearing Detection and Intervention) Advisory Committee for Africa contributing regularly to discussions of the Committee. He presented as a key note speaker at the first pan-Africa EHDI Conference in Johannesburg South Africa in August 2007.
- F. Dr. Hall will be a key note speaker at the first EHDI Conference in Mexico November 6-9, 2007.
- G. Dr. Hall has served as a guest lecturer and key note speaker in Brazil, Colombia, England, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Italy, Ecuador, Canada, and India.
- H. Dr. Hall has provided voluntary pediatric audiology services in Jamaica and South Africa.
- I. Dr. Hall is preparing, in collaboration with a faculty member at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, funded research grants that will include the University of Florida in a sub-contract arrangement to study noise induced hearing loss detection and prevention in persons who work in various mines in South Africa.
Hanrsberger, James; Ph.D.
1. In 2004 - 2007, Prof. Harnsberger was awarded an NIH R03 grant on cross-langauge speech perception ($150,000). In this grant, speakers of three languages of Asia and Europe (Hindi, Korean, Spanish, English) were tested in their ability to perceive a variety of non-native speech sounds, which served as probes into the organization of speech sounds in long-term memory across monolingual and bilingual speakers.
2. In 2008 - 2009, Prof. Harnsberger collaborated with Prof. Elmar Noth of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, on the modeling of vocal aging. Prof. Harnsberger worked with Prof. Noth and a team of graduate students from Germany to develop an automatic vocal age classifier using Prof. Harnsberger's background in the acoustic correlates to vocal age and Prof. Noth's expertise in techniques used in automatic speech recognition. All work took place at the Workshop on Vocal Aging Explained by Vocal Tract Modeling at John Hopkins University, a large scale effort that took place over the month of August, 2008. During this workshop, Prof. Harnsberger gave a talk entitled "Exploring the consequences of the aging process on the articulation and perception of speech." Out of this workshop, one publication and presentation has resulted to date, both associated with the September 2009 Interspeech meeting:
Stemmer G., Spiegl W., Lasarcyk E., Kholhatkar V., Cassidy A., Potard B., Shum S., Song Y., Xu P., Beyerlein P., Harnsberger J. D., Noeth E. (in press). "Analyzing Features for Automatic Age Estimation on Cross-Sectional Data" Interspeech.
3. Prof. Harnsberger co-chaired the dissertation committee of Divya Gogoi, a graduate student in Linguistics who work concerns the perceptual performance of bilingual populations located in Europe and India. The dissertation is entitled, "Acquisition of novel perceptual categories in a third language" and will be defended in the Fall of 2009. Partial data collection for this research took place in India in 2008.
Holmes, Alice E.; Ph.D.
- A. Dr. Holmes currently has an NIH grant submitted entitled Noise Induced hearing loss and risk behavior in adolescents: Cross cultural study that has been submitted with Soly Erlandsson from Sweden as collaborator.
- B. For the past 5 years the Department has been taking 6 to 12 AuD students on a medical mission trip to Merida, Mexico to screen and evaluate children for hearing and to work with a non-profit organization AYPRODA in the rehabilitation of children with hearing loss in the Yucatan.
Le Prell, Colleen; Ph.D.
Dr. Colleen Le Prell is the international coordinator for a series of clinical trials to evaluate the prevention of noise-induced hearing loss using micronutrient strategies. These trials will be funded by the National Institutes of Health (Fall 2007). Trials will be conducted at the University of Florida, and also in Stockholm, Sweden as part of a formal collaboration with the Karolinska Institutet, and Albacete, Spain, as part of a formal collaboration with the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Key colleagues and collaborators at the University of Florida include in the United States include Drs. James Hall (Department of Communicative Disorders) and Patrick Antonelli (Department of Otolaryngology). Dr. Josef Miller (University of Michigan), Mr. Ken Guire (University of Michigan), Dr. Kathleen Campbell (Southern Illinois University Medical School), and Dr. Sharon Kujawa (Harvard University) are key participants in the overall design and conduct of the trials. Colleagues and collaborators in the Swedish trial include Drs. Mats Ulfendahl, Ulf Rosenhall, and Bjorn Hagerman, and Ms. Ann-Cathrine Lindblad (at the Karolinksa Institutet), and Dr. Per-Anders Hellstrom (Swedish Armed Forces). Colleagues and collaborators in the Spanish trials include Drs. Jose Juiz, (at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) and Luis Gonzales (Medical Services, the Cutlery Industry Association, Albacete, Spain), and Major Julio Carabayo (medical supervisor, Los Llanos Air Base).
Dr. Le Prell is also coordinating a symposium, titled, "Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL): From Molecules to Man," to be held at the 31st mid-winter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology in February, 2008. In addition to Dr. Le Prell, national and international speakers will include Dr. Donald Henderson (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA), Dr. Guy Van Camp (University of Antwerp, BELGUIM), Dr. Tzy-Wen Gong (University of Michigan, USA), Dr. Jean-Luc Puel (Institut Des Neurosciences de Montpellier, FRANCE), and Dr. Lynne Marshall (Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, Connecticut, USA).
Dr. Le Prell's Funded Grants
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Logan, Kenneth J.
Dr. Logan currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluency Disorders, which is the official journal of the International Fluency Association (IFA). The IFA deals with a wide variety of global issues related to stuttering research and treatment, and its membership spans six continents. The editorial board for the Journal of Fluency Disorders presently consists of professionals from North America, Europe, and Australia.
Since 2007, Dr. Logan has chaired doctoral committees at the University of Florida for two international students: Jin Park (South Korea) and Maisa Haj-Tas (Jordan). Currently, Dr. Logan is serving as chair of Adele Al-Ghamedei's(Saudi Arabia) doctoral committee. He currently is on doctoral committees of two other international doctoral students at the University of Florida.
In the past two years, Dr. Logan has served as an "outside" member of a doctoral committee for one student from the University of Toronto (Canada) and another Master's-level student from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand).