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BE HEARD
DEPARTMENT OF
Hearing & Speech Sciences
0100 SAMUEL J. LEFRAK HALL7251 PREINKERT DR.COLLEGE PARK, MD 20742
WWW.HESP.UMD.EDUP 301.405.4213 / F 301.314.2023 [email protected]
The Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
is one of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences’
10 interdisciplinary departments and programs,
all committed to investigating and improving the
human condition. www.bsos.umd.edu
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIESBE EMPOWERED
ANTHROPOLOGYBE CULTURAL
CRIMINOLOGY & CRIMINAL JUSTICEBE JUST
ECONOMICSBE EFFICIENT
GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCESBE GLOBAL
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBE CIVIL
HEARING & SPEECH SCIENCESBE HEARD
JOINT PROGRAM IN SURVEY METHODOLOGYBE COUNTED
PSYCHOLOGYBE UNDERSTOOD
SOCIOLOGYBE SOCIAL
Hearing & Speech Sciences at Maryland
At the University of Maryland’s Department of Hearing and
Speech Sciences, we’re discovering new knowledge that
gives people with speech, language and hearing impairments
new opportunities to thrive. Our faculty and students work
with individuals of all ages, investigating how the ear and brain
work together to hear and interpret spoken language. We assist
patients recovering from brain injuries. We work to restore or
improve impaired voice, fluency and language skills that limit
educational, vocational and social success. We transform
the student experience by studying the brain in action at the
Maryland Neuroimaging Center, and through rigorous research
and experiential learning opportunities.
We inspire Maryland pride by directly serving the local
community to assess and treat patients with disorders at our
clinic and preschool. Holocaust survivors receive free hearing
aids through our work with the Jewish Social Service Agency in
Rockville, Md. Through a partnership with Walter Reed National
Military Medical Center, we assist wounded service members—
while offering hands-on training to speech-language patholo-
gists, audiologists and speech-language and hearing scientists.
Our research turns imagination into innovation and is
funded by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health.
Research Overview >>
Our faculty, students, partners and alumni focus their work and outreach
in four main areas:
» Applied Clinical Research
» Assistive Technology-Rehab for Speech, Language and Hearing
» Cognitive Neuroscience and Communication Disorders
» Communication and Communication Disorders across the Life Span
go.umd.edu/HESPResearch
THROUGH NEW RESEARCH,
diagnoses and treatments, we advance human communication.Academic Offerings >>
UNDERGRADUATE OFFERINGS
Bachelor of Arts
Minor in Hearing and Speech Sciences
go.umd.edu/HESPUndergraduate
GRADUATE OFFERINGS
Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology
Doctor of Audiology in Clinical Audiology
Doctor of Philosophy
Combined Au.D./Ph.D. in Clinical Audiology
Combined M.A./Ph.D. Program
go.umd.edu/HESPGraduate
—JULIE KNORR, HESP ’17 Member, National Student Speech Language Hearing Association; Member, Program for Undergraduate Language Science Ambassadors in Research
“This major covers the biological bases for the
vital task of communication. My dream job
would be as a research scientist and professor—
being able to contribute to the field in a mean-
ingful way and inspiring others to do the same!”
MAYA FREUND, HESP ’15Au.D. candidate; recipient, BSOS Summer Scholars Award
“ People go into this profession because they
want to help people. It’s not really selfless,
though, because it makes me feel really good.”
Clinic, Collaborations x& Initiatives >>
The University of Maryland Hearing and Speech Clinic has pro-
vided speech, language and hearing therapy services to the community
since 1949. Learn more at go.umd.edu/HESPClinic.
Our faculty and students are frequently involved in research collabo-
rations and innovative labs, both within our department and across
departments at UMD. Learn more at go.umd.edu/HESPCollaborations.
The Department has many initiatives and ongoing projects, with
both research and clinical foci. These include Traumatic Brain Injury
and Sports Concussion, the University of Maryland Autism Research
Consortium, and Infant Cognition and Early Intervention. Learn more at
go.umd.edu/HESPInitiatives.
Faculty Research Highlights >>
In addition to serving as a speech-language
pathologist and a member of the clinical faculty,
KATHY DOW-BURGER is the associate director
of the University of Maryland Autism Research
Consortium. She works with students and clinicians
to better understand and treat autism spectrum
disorders and other social language disorders.
She also founded the Social Interaction Group Network for Students with
Autism, a campus organization devoted to helping students on the autism
spectrum develop skills to successfully negotiate higher education.
JARED NOVICK focuses on how non-linguistic
cognitive systems (like our ability to control atten-
tion) support interpretation and re-interpretation
procedures as language input unfolds moment by
moment. He addresses this issue by employing
an experimental paradigm that tracks listeners’
eye movements as they listen to and comprehend
spoken language, because eye fixation patterns provide important time-
course information about listeners’ ongoing interpretation processes.
His work also investigates how young children’s limited ability to control
attention influences language processing and learning, and also how adult
bilinguals’ language-switching affects their attention more generally.
SANDRA GORDON-SALANT examines the
characteristics of accented English—as well as
sensory, perceptual and cognitive changes that
accompany aging—to understand why older
listeners have difficulty understanding accented
speech. Her experiments examine the hypothesis
that accent alters the timing information in English,
which stresses older listeners’ decline in perceiving subtle differences
in timing. This research is leading to great insight about the complex
interactions between acoustic changes in accented speech and the
abilities of younger vs. older listeners to perceive and adapt to such
deviations. Ultimately, training programs to improve perception of
accented English will be developed.
PAULA SCHAUER reaches out to local adult
communities and senior centers to educate senior
citizens about untreated hearing loss and its
impact on healthy aging. Untreated hearing loss
globally affects health and wellness and is now
linked to cognitive decline and dementia. Through
the implementation of hearing screenings, instruc-
tional programs and rehabilitation services, Schauer has taken steps to
mitigate the influence of hearing loss on the quality of life of seniors in the
Maryland community.
go.umd.edu/HESPPeople
HESP Points of Pride >>
OUR AWARD-WINNING FACULTY ARE EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELD; ARE FREQUENTLY INVITED TO PUBLISH AND LECTURE; AND ARE OFTEN FEATURED BY THE MEDIA.
OUR GRADUATE PROGRAMS AND AREAS OF SPECIALTY ARE CONSISTENTLY RANKED AMONG THE TOP 25 IN THE NATION BY U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT.
25OUR OUTSTANDING CLINIC AND LEAP PRESCHOOL IMPROVE THE LIVES OF OUR PATIENTS AND SERVE OUR COMMUNITY.
OUR LOCATION NEAR WASHINGTON, D.C., ANNAPOLIS AND BALTIMORE ALLOWS FOR EXCEPTIONAL INTERNSHIPS AND OPPORTUNITIES.
STUDENTS WORK WITH FACULTY ON CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH PROJECTS.
NEARLY 100% OF OUR CLINICAL GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE EMPLOYED UPON GRADUATION.