Current Projects
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.
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.
How do English language learners perceive accent modification training? This project was funded by an Opportunity Meets Innovation grant from the NJ Department of Education and Seton Hall University. Collaborator: Bryan Pilkington. Work on this project was presented at the 2023 New Jersey Speech & Hearing Convention and at the Petersheim Academic Exposition at Seton Hall University.
Measuring the syntactic complexity of Sentence Intelligibility Test sentences. Work on this project was presented at the 2020 Conference on Motor Speech.