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Welcoming Words from the New Executive Officer, Martin R. Gitterman: 1. Strengthen links across related departments at the Graduate Center. Work to foster joint research projects/grants/colloquia. This is, I know, a rather ambitious agenda, but I believe they are all worthy goals. I hope to make progress in achieving these goals during my term as EO. Above all, I want the students and faculty to know that I will be both supportive and constructive in dealing with all issues, always doing what I think is in the best interests of the program.” A
FOND FAREWELL TO THE OCTOBER 2002 AND
The following students passed the First Examination in Speech and Hearing Sciences on September 18, 2003: Inge Anema, Miwako Hisagi, Michelle MacRoy, Kristen Maul, Tara McDonald. Marie-Michelle Monereau-Merry, Anthea Vivona, and Monica Wagner.
Hia
Datta Lynda
J. Felder
Elizabeth
Ijalba
Nathan
Maxfield
Jose G. Centeno was a member of the Review Panel for the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, held May 1-3, 2003 in Tempe, AZ. Deena Bernstein was the issue editor of the April 2003 edition of Topics in Language Disorders in Children and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. JoManette Nousak has left New Jersey to take a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Cincinnati. You can reach her by phone (513) 558-8467 or email her at JKNousak@uc.edu if you’d like to chat with her for awhile. Amee Shah is pursuing a post-doctoral fellowship position in the area of neurolinguistics of brain-damage at the Center for Research on Language, Mind and Brain at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Theresa Hnath-Chisolm was promoted to Full Professor as of August 1, 2003 in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Florida. Pamela Mathews successfully defended her dissertation “Derivational Morphology in Agrammatic Aphasia: A Reading-aloud Study” on June 10, 2003. Last month Pamela deposited her dissertation and is now officially known as Dr. Pamela Mathews. “Perceiving the Sources of Environmental sounds with a Varying Number of Spectral Channels” was the title of Valeriy Shafiro’s dissertation, which he successfully defended on September 5, 2003. Robert Goldfarb may have retired from the City University of New
York but his love of teaching continues; he is now a professor in
the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at Adelphi
University. He can be reached at 516 877-4785 or by email: Goldfarb2@adelphi.edu.
Erika Levy – received an NIH pre-doctoral fellowship. Robert Goldfarb – the recipient of the Professional
Achievement Award. The award, given by the New York City Speech,
Hearing and Language Association, will be presented at the 26th
Annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, October 30th at the
New York Marriott Financial Center Hotel. If you are interested in
attending please contact Kathy Gross from NYCSHLA. Shlomo Silman - awarded the 2002 Editor-of-the-Year Award from
the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. Michele Emmer – received the 2003 college-wide award for
Excellence in Teaching. This competitive award is presented to one
individual and carries a stipend. Miwako Hisago – a recipient of this year’s annual University
Student Senate Scholarship award from the University Student
Senate of the City University of New York. The award “recognizes
outstanding academic ability, determination, and service to the
college community.” Sima Gerber – a recipient of the Bamford-Lahey Children’s
Foundation Award for 2003. GRANT
RECIPIENTS I was notified by Matthew
Bakke that he and Arlene
Neuman have been awarded a new grant from the National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). Matt
also says, “The title of the project is “A Rehabilitation
Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Hearing Enchancement.”
This is a 5-year award of $950,000 per year. Matt will serve as
director of the project and Arlene will be co-director. This
Center represents a collaborative effort between Gallaudet
University, the City University of New York Graduate Center, and
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. Other CUNY students, alumni, faculty, former faculty and faculty emeriti who are involved in this work are:
The focus of this work is on the development and evaluation of technological solutions to the issues and problems confronting people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Specific components of the work include
Arild
Hestvik received a three-year RO3 grant from NIH/NIDCD for
research on “Structural Representation and Sentence Processing
in SLI.”
The Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences will host an Open House on Friday, November 7, 2003. Faculty, students and alumni are invited to attend. The schedule is as follows:
Valeriy
Shafiro thrilled us all with the announcement that he is the
proud father of Sam, his son who was born June 4, 2003. According
to Valeriy “Sam is doing fine and getting to be a highly fluent
bilingual babbler”. On August 1, 2003 Theresa
Hnath-Chisolm married Stephen Sobieralski. Erika Levy married Philip Yanowitch on August 8, 2003. Cindy
Compton became Cindy
Compton Conley on May 23, 2003. Jody
Porrazzo is pleased
to inform us that she formed her own management consulting company
last year and has since incorporated it. The company is
DataMaxtric Research Technologies, Inc. According to Jody “our
expertise is in technical operations research, quantitative
analysis, forecast data models, information strategy development,
and enterprise data architecture. We are experienced with and
promote the development of sound data processes and standards,
including data quality reviews and project planning. Our company
is committed to developing knowledge of hidden data patterns and
business intelligence through the use of quantitative models to
continually enhance service delivery”. You can reach Jody via
email at jody.porrazzo@dataresearchtech.com. Patricia
Jeng informs us that she and the family have relocated to
Illinois where her husband Jont Allen has taken a teaching
position at the University of Illinois. Patricia, the president of
Mimosa Acoustics can be reached by phone at 217 384-2930 or fax at
217 384-2960.
Assistant
Professor Michael J. Newman was appointed to the doctoral
faculty on March 27, 2003. Professor Newman hails from the
Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders at Queens
College. Professor Newman’s areas of expertise are applied
linguistics and Spanish linguistics. We are very pleased to
announce the promotion of Professor
Richard G. Schwartz to Presidential Proessor. The promotion
became effective September 1, 2003. PROGRAM
DIRECTORY On Friday, October 15th
the program directory will be sent out for review to faculty,
students, research staff and alumni. Everyone will be asked at
that time to review their entries and get back to me with any
changes. The final copy of the directory will be sent via email on
Monday, October 20th. PRESENTATIONS “The impact of cochlear
fine structure on the use of DPOAE as a clinical tool” was the
title of the paper presented by Jungmee
Lee, Glenis Long, and C.L. Talmadge at the Second Eastern
Auditory Regional (EAR) Meeting. (June 27, 2003, The Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA). At the Science of Aphasia
Conference (August, Trieste, Italy) Yael
Neumann, Loraine K. Obler and Erika
Levy presented a poster on “Aphasia and the
language/communication continuum.” Yael
Neumann, Loraine K. Obler and Erika
Levy will have a presentation at this year’s ASHA Convention
in Chicago: “Shh, Brr, Pee-uw: Do brain-damaged patients
comprehend these vocal emblem sounds?” This presentation is part
of the Student/Technical Platform session. “Bases de adquisición
del lenguaje y la lectura: estado del arte en el diagnóstico de
sus trastornos” (Language acquisition and reading: state of the
art in their diagnosis) was the title of Elizabeth Ijalba’s presentation at the 29th Interamerican Congress
of Psychology in Lima, Peru, July 13-18, 2003. Elizabeth’s
activities didn’t end there; she was quite busy doing other
things such as: teaching an introduction course to speech-language
pathologists through the Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios e
Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales (CIEICS) In Lima, Trujillo
and Cusco, Peru. She also taught the same class in La Paz,
Bolivia. Elizabeth also was invited to participate in a symposium
in honor of Dr. Pedro Ortiz Cabanillas at the Hospital Rabagliatti
in Lima, Peru. At the May 28th
Speech-Language Seminar (organized by Areti
Okalidou) at the University of Macedonia, Jan
Edwards presented a paper on “Lexical influences on normal
and disordered phonological development” while Areti
Okalidou spoke on “Speech perception by Greek cochlear
implant users.” Amee
Shah presented her invited interaction workshop on “Accents:
What are they? How do we get them? How can we lose them?” at
McGill University this past spring. The workshop was sponsored by
the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathology and
Audiology (CASLPA). Loraine
K. Obler presented a plenary paper on “Bilingualism and the
brain” at the SCRIPT Conference in Zichron Ya’akov, Israel in
July. While visiting in Israel Loraine
Obler also moved forward with her colleagues Elite Olshtain,
Bella Kotak, and Anat Stavans on their Israel-US Binational Fund
project on the language use patterns and abilities of Russian
immigrants to Israel and the U.S. Areti
Okalidou and Laura
Koenig presented a paper on “Stress effects on
coarticulation in English and Greek” at the 145th
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, which took place
April 28-May 2, 2003 in Nashville, TN. “Nasalance norms in the speech of Greek normal adults: Linguistic, phonetic, gender effects and crosslinguistic comparisons” was the title of a presentation by Areti Okalidou, A. Karathanasi and E. Grigoraki at the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, August 3-9, 2003. “Durational characteristics of the speech of apraxics and conduction aphasics” was the title of the paper presented by M. Boyle, Fredericka Bell-Berti and Carole E. Gelfer (15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, August 3-9, 2003, Barcelona, Spain.) The paper also appears in the Proceedings of the Congress, pages 3265-3268. This past June Amee Shah spoke on “Giving feedback: Tell it like it is?” in a faculty development workshop in which she served as the group leader. The workshop was geared towards training-at-large English-speaking Montreal clinical supervisors (SLP and Audiology) affiliated with McGill University. At the 1st Conference on
Acoustic Communication by Animals, L.A Shaffer and Glenis
Long presented a paper on Interspecies differences in
auditory sensitivity of kangaroo rates revealed by distortion
product otoacoustic emissions”. (July 27-30, 2003, University
of Maryland, College Park, MD). Areti
Okalidou spoke on “Early intervention of speech and
language in deaf children” at the 6th European
Federation of Audiological Sciences (EFAS) held in Crete,
Greece, May 2003. Prior to the ASHA convention, Matthew Bakke and Cynthia
Compton Conley will be presenting at the ACCESS Conference
in Chicago on November 11-13, 2003. The title of the
presentation is “Auditory access in public areas: Issues and
Opinions.” “Semantic processing in competing noise
in adults” was the title of the presentation by Mara
L. Morr and J.F. Connolly. (Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Annual Meeting held in New York City in March 2003 and at the
Canadiana Language and Literacy Research Network Conference,
Victoria, B.C., Canada, June 2003). Martin Gitterman gave two presentations this past summer in the Dominican Republic: At the January 8-9, 2003 Teacher Training Session at the Instituto Cultural Dominico-Americano he presented a paper on “Improving pronunciation and general communication skills in a second/foreign language.” The second presentation entitled, “Choosing an appropriate methodology: Assessing the options” was held at the Annual Conference for Teachers of English (Instituto Cultural Dominico Americana) on June 19-20, 2003. Miwako
Hisagi, K. Nishi, and
Winifred Strange were the co-authors of a paper entitled,
“Acoustic properties of Japanese and English vowels: Effects of
speaking style and consonantal context” 13th
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (Michigan State University,
MSU Union, August 1-3, 2003) Jose Centeno presented an invited paper entitled, “Application of
bilingualism principles in speech-language pathology” at a
conference on the Clinical Issues in the Assessment and Treatment
of Language Difficulties of Multilingual Children (Mackay Center,
Montreal, Canada, June 6-7, 2003.) Matthew Bakke will speak at the Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Convention on “Sound systems and human hearing: An audiological
perspective” at the Javits Center (NYC) on October 12. Mara L. Morr and J.F. Connolly will give presentations on “The
effect of irrelevant noise on semantic processing” and “The
effects of phonologically correct noise on speech comprehension as
reflected in the N400 and PMN.” (43rd Annual Meeting
of the Society of Psychohysiological Research, Chicago, IL,
October 2003.) Presenters at the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses
Arthur
Boothroyd has been quite busy this summer giving presentations
here and abroad:
PUBLICATIONS Sandra
Levey and D. Cruz (2003). The first words produced by
bilingual Mandarin-Chinese/English speaking children. Communication
Disorders Quarterly, 24(3), 69-92. Sandra
Levey and Robert
Goldfarb (2003). Comprehension of indirect requests by persons
with fluent aphasia. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 96, 245-256. Doron
Milstein and Barbara
Weinstein (2003). Amplification: The treatment of choice for
presbycusis. Geriatrics and Aging, 6(5), 19-21. Carol
L. Mackersie. (2003). Talker separation and sequential stream
segregation in listeners with hearing loss: Patterns associated
with talker gender. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46(4), August. Klara
Marton and Richard
Schwartz (2003). Working memory capacity and language
processes in children with specific language impairment. Journal
of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46(5), October. Judy F.
Flax, T. Realpe-Bonilla, L.S. Hirsch, L.M. Brzustowicz, C.W.
Bartlett, and P. Tallal (2003). Specific language impairment in
families: Evidence for co-occurrence with reading impairments. Journal
of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46(3), June. Christine
Kosky and Arthur
Boothroyd (2003). Perception and production of sibilants by
children with hearing loss: A training study. The
Volta Review, 103(2), 71-98. Stanley
A. Gelfand (2003). Tri-word
presentations with phonemic scoring for practical high-reliability
speech recognition assessment. Journal
of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46(2), April. Naama
Friedmann and Lewis P. Shapiro (2003). Agrammatic
comprehension of simple active sentences with moved constituents:
Hebrew OSV and OVS structures. Journal
of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46(2), April. Christine
Kosky and Arthur
Boothroyd (2003). Validation of an on-line implementation of
the Imitative Test of Speech Pattern Contrast Perception (IMSPAC).
Journal of the American
Academy of Audiology, 14, 13-24. Elaine R. Silliman, S.F. Diehl, R.H. Bahr, Theresa Hnath-Chisolm, C.B. Zenko, and S.A.. Friedman (2003). A new look at performance on theory-of-mind tasks by adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 34(3), July. PUBLICATIONS
(in press) Arthur
Boothroyd. Modeling the effects of room acoustics on speech
reception and perception. Chapter in Crandell, C.C., Smaldino, J.J.
and Flexer, C. (Eds.), Sound-field Amplification: Theory and
Practical Applications. Second Edition. Singular Thomson Learning. Arthur
Boothroyd. Room acoustics and speech perception. Seminars
in Hearing. Arthur
Boothroyd. Hearing aid accessories for adults: the remote FM
microphone. Ear and Hearing. Arthur
Boothroyd. Hearing aids and room acoustics. Page 10 article
for The Hearing Journal. Sandra
Levey. A pilot study: The discrimination of English vowels by
bilingual Spanish/English and monolingual listeners. Texas
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology (TEJAS). Sandra
Levey and D. Cruz. The discrimination of English vowels by
bilingual Spanish/English and monolingual English speakers. Contemporary
Issues in Communication Science and Disorders. UPCOMING
COLLOQUIA for OCTOBER 2003 Wednesday, October 15 (4:15-5:30 p.m., Room
7102) Wednesday, October 22 (4:15-5:30 p.m., Room
7102) NOTE: Forward your newsletter items to lwalker@gc.cuny.edu
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