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Audiology & Evoked Potentials Laboratory Lab
Developmental Language Lab
Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab
Hearing Science Lab
Neurolinguistics Lab
Speech Acoustics and Perception Lab
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Developmental Language Laboratory
(Room 7410)
Lab Meetings:
Richard G. Schwartz,
Lab Director
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The goal of the Developmental Language Laboratory is to
understand the nature and underlying causes of childhood language
impairments. To this end, we study the relationship between speech
perception, the processing of language, and the brain mechanisms
underlying language processing in production in young children acquiring
language typically and atypically. Included among the populations
being studied are monolingual and bilingual children with SLI, children
with phonological impairments, children with autism, children with
permanent and transient hearing losses, and children with typically
developing language. This laboratory consists of three areas: (1)
Sentence Processing, (2) Developmental Speech Perception, and (3)
Electrophysiology. The Sentence Processing Area includes on-line
and off-line computers, digital tape recorders, scanners, and specialized
software to allow the construction and administration of language
processing tasks for pre-school and school-aged children. The Developmental
Perception Area has hardware and software to conduct auditory and
cross-modal (visual preference) studies of speech perception and
production in infants, toddlers and young children. The Electrophysiology
Area includes a 32-channel Neuroscan and associated software to
conduct studies of the neurophysiological bases of auditory perception
and processing underlying language acquisition. The laboratory is
also engaged in cooperative projects with the Eden II School , the
Children’s Health Fund, The Rose F. Kennedy Center of the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, the Sackler Institute of the Weill
Medical Center of Cornell University, and the Department of Communicative
Disorders of the University of Hong Kong.
Richard G. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Dr. Schwartz is a Presidential Professor of Speech and Hearing
Sciences at The Graduate School and the University Center of the
City University of New York. He attended McGill University, received
his M.S. in Speech Pathology from the University of South Florida in
1974, and his Ph.D. in Speech Pathology and Developmental Psychology
from the University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State University)
in 1978. Dr. Schwartz has also held academic appointments at the
University of Pittsburgh, Purdue University, Tel Aviv University, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and is currently a
Visiting Professor of Otolaryngology at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine. He has published widely on speech and language
disorders in children in peer-reviewed scientific journals,
contributed numerous chapters in academic textbooks and monographs,
and has served as the editor of the Journal of Speech, Language
and Hearing Research . He is the editor of the forthcoming
Handbook of Child Language Disorders to be published by
Psychology Press. Dr. Schwartz’ research has been supported by
grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health since
1979. He has served as the chair/organizer of numerous national and
international conferences. His current research interests include
speech and language processing in children with Specific Language
Impairment, children with Cochlear Implants, and children with
Autism as well as the neurobiology of childhood language
impairments.
Richard G. Schwartz, Ph.D.
CV (.pdf)
Affiliated Labs & Research
Centers
Developmental Neurolinguistics Laboratory of the City University of
New York Graduate Center
Director,
Dr. Valerie Shafer
Neurogenetics of Human
Communication Lab at Universitat Jaume I
(UJI), Spain. Director, Dr. Dolors Girbau
Lab of Dr. Liat Seiger,
Lehman College, Bronx, NY
Lab of Dr. Klara Marton, Brooklyn College,
NY
Language & Cognitive
Neuroscience Laboratory at UCSD
The Rose F. Kennedy Center of the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine
The Department of Communicative Disorders of
the University of Hong Kong
Cooperating &
Participating Schools, Clinics, & Organizations
The Hearing & Learning Center at Beth Israel Medical Center
(ongoing)
Beth Israel-New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
Cochlear Implant Center (ongoing)
Eden II School, Staten Island, NY,
Dr. Joanne Gerenser, Executive Director (1999-ongoing)
The Gateway School, NY, NY (2005)
The Developmental Language Lab would
like to thank the above centers and institutions for their
participation in our research.
Professional Affiliations
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
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