Current Projects
How do English language learners perceive accent modification training? Collaborator: Bryan Pilkington (Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine). This project was initially funded by a 2022 Opportunity Meets Innovation grant from the NJ Department of Education and Seton Hall University; continuing work is funded by a 2024 Seton Hall University Research Council Research Grant. Work on this project has been presented at the 2023 New Jersey Speech & Hearing Convention, the Academy of Professionalism in Healthcare conference on Healthcare Professionalism and Bias Reduction, and the 27th and 28th Petersheim Academic Expositions at Seton Hall University.
Clinician-driven recommendations for revising the Consensus Auditory Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V). Collaborators: Gail Kempster (Rush University) & Nancy Solomon (Walter Reed National Military Medical Center). This work is based on survey and interview data from clinicians who regularly use the CAPE-V. Recent work on this project was presented at the 2023 ASHA Convention and will be at the 53rd Annual Voice Foundation Symposium.
Reliability of expert ratings on the Consensus Auditory Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V), a commonly used perceptual rating scale for disordered voice. Collaborators: Tanya Eadie, Michael Burns & Kathryn Yorkston (University of Washington), Nancy Pearl Solomon (Walter Reed National Military Medical Center) & Ruth Segal (Seton Hall University). Recent work on this project was presented at the 2019, 2020 & 2023 Fall Voice Conference and the 2021 & 2022 Voice Foundation Symposia.
2022 Presentation: Procedural fidelity to the CAPE-V among voice clinicians: A comparative analysis
Reliability and validity of different scale types for measuring perceived listening effort for alaryngeal, dysarthric and foreign-accented speech. Collaborators: Cara Stepp (Boston University), Kate Nealon (Kean University) & Kaila Stipancic (University of Buffalo). Recent work on this project was presented at the 2019 & 2022 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Measuring the syntactic complexity of Sentence Intelligibility Test sentences. Work on this project was presented at the 2020 Conference on Motor Speech.