Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences

Arlene C. Neuman, Ph.D.

Arlene Neuman, PhD
Dr. Arlene C. Neuman
Associate Professor

Arlene C. Neuman, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences
The Graduate School and University Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309

Room 7400.07
Tel: 212-817-8810
E-Mail: aneuman@gc.cuny.edu

Digital Sensory Aids Laboratory

EDUCATION:

1972 B.S. University of Bridgeport, English Education
1975 M.A. Hunter College, City University of New York, Communication Sciences
1982 Ph.D. Graduate School, City University of New York, Speech and Hearing Sciences

EMPLOYMENT:

2000-present Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Graduate School, City University of New York
1986-2000 Senior Research Scientist, Center for Research in Speech and Hearing Science, Graduate School, City University of New York
1986-present Senior Research Scientist, Research Division, The Lexington Center, New York
1989-1995 Adjunct, Assistant Professor, Graduate School, City University of New York
1988 Adjunct, Assistant Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York
1995-1999 Adjunct, Associate Professor, Graduate School, City University of New York
1982-1986 Research Associate, Center for Research in Speech and Hearing Sciences, Graduate School, City University of New York
1984-1986 Research Associate, Research Division, The Lexington Center, New York
1981-1982 Visiting lecturer, Temple University, Department of Speech
1978-1981 Graduate Fellow, Queens College, City University of New York
1975-1978 Pediatric audiologist, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

PUBLICATIONS:

Neuman, A. C., Molinelli, P. and Hochberg, I. (1981). Post-Meningitic hearing
            loss: Report on three cases. Journal of Communication Disorders 14,
            105-111.

Neuman, A.C. and Hochberg, I. (1983). Children's perception of speech in
            reverberation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 73, 2145-
            2149.

Levitt, H., Neuman, A.C., Mills, R. and Schwander, T. (1986). A digital master
            hearing aid. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 23, 79-
            87.

Neuman, A.C. (1987). Hearing aid selection procedures. In: Gallaudet
            Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness. (McGraw Hill, New York).

Neuman, A.C. (1987). Digital technology and clinical practice: The outlook for
            the future. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 25, 1-7
            (Invited Paper, peer reviewed).

Neuman, A.C. and Schwander, T. (1987). The effect of filtering on the
            intelligibility and quality of speech in noise. Journal of Rehabilitation
            Research and Development 25, 127 - 134.

Neuman, A.C., Levitt, H., Weiss, M. and Schwander, T. (1987). Evaluation of
            noise reduction techniques for hearing aids.  Proceedings of the 10th Annual
            Conference. on Rehabilitation Technology (RESNA '87), 413-415,
            Washington D. C.: Association for the Advancement of Rehabilitation
            Technology.

Levitt, H. and Neuman, A.C.(1987). Digital hearing aids. Proceedings of the
            10th Annual Conference on Rehabilitation Technology (RESNA '87), 389
            -391, Washington, D.C.: Association for the Advancement of
            Rehabilitation Technology.

Levitt, H., Neuman, A.C. and Toraskar, J. (1987). Orthogonal polynomial
            compression amplification for the hearing impaired. Proceedings of the
            10th Annual Conference on Rehabilitation Technology (RESNA  '87), 410-
            412. Washington, D.C.: Association for the Advancement of Rehabilitation
            Technology.

Levitt, H., Sullivan, J., Neuman, A.C. and Rubin-Spitz, J. (1987). Experiments
            with a programmable hearing aid.  Journal of Rehabilitation Research and
            Development, 24(4), 29-54.

Neuman, A.C., Levitt, H., Mills, R. and Schwander, T. (1987). An evaluation of
            three adaptive hearing aid selection strategies. Journal of the Acoustical
            Society of America 82, 1967-1976.

Levitt, H., Neuman, A.C. and Sullivan, J. (1990). Studies with digital hearing
            aids. Acta Otolaryngologica, (Stockholm) Supplement 469, 57-69.

Neuman, A.C. and Levitt, H. (1990). Selection procedures for digital hearing
            aids. Seminars in Hearing. 11 (1).  79-90.

Levitt, H. and Neuman, A.C. (1991). Evaluation of orthogonal polynomial
            compression. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 90, 241-252.

Neuman, A.C. and Eisenberg, L. (1991). Evaluation of a dereverberation
            technique. Journal of Communication Disorders 24, 211-221.

Levitt, H., Bakke, M., Kates, J., Neuman, A., and Weiss, M. (1993). Signal
            Processing for hearing impairment.   Scandinavian Audiology Supplement
            38, 7-19.

Neuman, A.C., Bakke, M., Hellman, S. and Levitt, H. (1994). The effect of
            compression ratio in a slow-acting compression hearing aid: Paired
            comparison judgments of quality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
            America 96, 1471-1478.

Neuman, A.C., Bakke, M.H., Hellman, S. and Levitt, H. (1995). Preferred
            listening levels for linear and slow-acting compression hearing aids. Ear
            and Hearing 16, 407-416.

Neuman, A.C., Bakke, M.H., Mackersie, C., Hellman, S. and Levitt, H. (1995).
            Effect of release time in compression hearing aids: Paired-comparison
            judgments of quality, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98,
            3182-3187.

Neuman, A.C. (1996). Late-onset auditory deprivation: A review of past
            research and an assessment of future research needs, Ear and Hearing
            17, 3S-13S (Invited Paper, peer reviewed).

Arlinger, S., Gatehouse, S., Bentler, R.A., Byrne, D., Cox, R.M., Dirks, D.D.,
            Humes, L., Neuman, A., Ponton, C., Robinson, K., Silman, S.,
            Summerfield, A.Q., Turner, C.W., Tyler, R.S., and Willott, J.F. (1996).
            Report of the Eriksholm Workshop on auditory deprivation and
            acclimatization, Ear and Hearing, 17, 87S-90S.

Kennedy, E., Levitt, H., Neuman, A.C., and Weiss, M. (1998). Consonant-vowel
            intensity ratios for maximizing consonant recognition by hearing-impaired
            listeners, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103, 1098-1114.

Neuman, A.C., Bakke, M.H., Mackersie, C., Hellman, S., and Levitt, H. (1998).
            The effect of compression ratio and release time on the categorical rating
            of sound quality, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 103, 2273-
            2281 (Chosen by the Editor-in-Chief of JASA as a "selected research
            article").

Mackersie, C., Neuman, A.C. and Levitt, H. (1999) .A comparison of response
            time and word recognition measures using a word monitoring and closed-
            set identification task, Ear and Hearing, 20, 140-148.

Mackersie, C., Neuman, A.C. and Levitt, H. (1999) Response time and word
            recognition using a modified-rhyme monitoring task: List equivalency and
            time-order effects, Ear and Hearing, 20, 515-520.

Preminger, J.E., Neuman, A.C., Bakke, M.H., Walters, D. and Levitt, H. (2000).
            An examination of the practicality of the simplex procedure, Ear and
            Hearing, 21: 177-193.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND MONOGRAPHS:

Levitt, H., Bakke, M., Kates, J., Neuman, A., and Weiss, M. (1993).
            Advanced signal processing hearing aids. In Beilin, J. and Jensen, G.R.
            (Eds.) Recent developments in hearing instrument technology. 15th
            Danavox Symposium. Denmark, pp. 333-358.

Neuman, A.C. and Levitt, H., (1988). Hearing Aids. In: P. W. Alberti and R. J.
            Ruben (eds.), Otologic Medicine and Surgery, (Churchill Livingstone, Inc,
            New York) pp. 1637-1653.

Neuman, A.C. (1993). Hearing Aids: Recent Developments. Maryland: York
            Press.

Neuman, A.C. and Levitt, H. (1993). The application of adaptive test strategies
            to hearing aid selection. In Studebaker, G. A. and Hochberg, I. (Eds.)
            Acoustical Factors Affecting Hearing Aid Performance. 2nd Edition. (Allyn
            and Bacon, Boston, MA) pp. 103-118.

Weiss, M. and Neuman, A.C. (1993). Noise reduction in hearing aids. In
            Studebaker, G. A. and Hochberg, I. (Eds.) Acoustical Factors Affecting
            Hearing Aid Performance. 2nd Edition. (Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA) pp.
            337-352.

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