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Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Newsletter Spring 2015 Alumni Event/50 th Anniversary October 16, 2015 Dear Alumni, Faculty, and Students, We are very excited about the upcoming alumni event celebrating the 50th anniversary of our program. Here is our plan for the day: First distinguished alumna/alumnus award; followed by a research presentation given by the awardee. Introducing our new Alumni Association; Video presentation showing short interviews with our alumni about their work; Roundtable discussion: how to increase the visibility of our scientific field, recruitment questions, etc. Lunch and time for socializing. We hope to see many of you at this event. I wish you a wonderful summer! Klara Marton Executive Officer Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

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Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Newsletter Spring 2015

Alumni Event/50th Anniversary

October 16, 2015

Dear Alumni, Faculty, and Students,

We are very excited about the upcoming alumni event celebrating the 50th

anniversary of our program. Here is our plan for the day:

First distinguished alumna/alumnus award; followed by a research

presentation given by the awardee.

Introducing our new Alumni Association;

Video presentation showing short interviews with our alumni about their

work;

Roundtable discussion: how to increase the visibility of our scientific

field, recruitment questions, etc.

Lunch and time for socializing.

We hope to see many of you at this event.

I wish you a wonderful summer!

Klara Marton

Executive Officer

Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Save the Date!

Annual Alumni Event/50th Anniversary:

Friday, October 16th, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Concourse Level

Rooms C201 and C202

6th Annual Student Research Day:

Friday, April 1, 2016, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00p.m.

Additional information and details on all the above events will be forth coming

as the events get closer.

If you have events, job postings, workshops, conferences, etc. that you would

like our students, faculty and alumni to know about, you are welcome to send

those announcements to our Assistant Program Officer, Patricia Goodson and

she will share the information with all.

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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Dissertation Defenses

Please join us in congratulating the following students who have successfully presented their

Dissertation Defenses. Congratulations Dr. Susan Gray, Dr. Jennifer Gerometta, Dr. Lee Jung

An, and Dr. Judith Iannotta!

Dr. Susan Gray defended on December 22, 2014

“Empowering Adult Struggling Readers with Morpho-Phonemic Word Study and Civics”

Chair: Dr. John Locke

Dr. Jennifer Gerometta defended on April 14, 2015

“Network Modeling of the Developing Mental Lexicon: Phonological Links Within and Between

Communities”

Chair: Dr. Valerie Shafer

Dr. Lee Jung An defended on April 22, 2015

“Effects of Native language on perception and neurophysiologic processing

of English /r/ and /l/ by native American, Korean and Japanese Listeners”

Chair: Dr. Brett Martin

Dr. Judith Iannotta defended on April 28, 2015

“Maturation of Speech Discrimination and Attentional Requirements in Late Childhood”

Chair: Valerie Shafer

Second Level Research Projects and Second Examinations

Joshua Hajicek presented his second level

research project on January 15, 2015,

“Optimization of Stimulus Frequency

Ocoacoustic Emission Measurement”.

Dr. Glenis Long chaired the project.

Reethee Antony presented her second level

research project on February 13, 2015,

“Neurophysiologic Processing of Voicing

and Aspiration in Hindu Listeners”.

Dr. Brett Marton chaired the project.

Jet Vonk passed her second exam on

February 13, 2015.

Ai Mizoguchi presented her second level

research project on March 18, 2015,

“Articulatory Gestures of Moraic Nasal /N/

in Japanese: An Ultrasound Study”.

Dr. Douglas Whalen chaired the project.

First Examinations

The following student passed their first examination:

Erica Richman – January 5, 2015. “Comparison of Treatment Strategies on School Aged

Children Diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)”

Advisor – Dr. Brett Martin

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Dr. Lee Jung An, who successfully defended her dissertation on April 22, 2015, presented on her

dissertation research at the International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group Conference

in Busan, South Korea.

PUBLICATIONS

Battaglia, D., Curinga, M., Minicozzi, L., Vaughn-Shavuo, F., McCarthy, M.J., & Zarco,

E.P. (Spring 2015). From Laptop to Tablet: Faculty Use of iPads for Instructions to Prepare

Education Professionals. Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 9 (1), 21-33.

Battaglia, D., (2015). Functional communication training in children with autism spectrum

disorder. Young Exceptional Children.

Berkowitz, S. S., (2015). Hand dryer noise in public restrooms exceeds 80 dBA at 10 ft (3 m).

Noise Health, 17, (75), 90-92.

DiCanio, C. T., Nam, H., Amith, J. D., Whalen, D. H., & Castillo García, R. (2015). Vowel

variability in elicited versus running speech: Evidence from Mixtec. Journal of Phonetics, 48,

45-59.

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Eisenberg, S. & Guo, L. (2015). Sample size for measuring grammaticality in preschool children

from picture-elicited language samples. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 46,

141-153

Gitterman, M., (2014). A Review of: Silver, R. and S. Lwin (Eds.). 2014. Language in

Education: Social Implications. Linguist List 25.3799.

Gitterman, M., (2015). A Review of: Behrens, S. 2014. Understanding Language Use in the

Classroom: A Linguistic Guide for College Educators. Linguist List 26.728.

Guo, L., & Eisenberg, S. (2015). Sample length affects the reliability of language sample

measures in three-year-olds: Evidence from parent-elicited conversational samples. Language,

Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 46, 81-93

Hendler-Lederer, S. & Battaglia, D. (2015). Using Signs to Facilitate Vocabulary in

Children with Language Delays. Infants and Young Children, 28 (1), 18-31.

Hyun, J., Conner , P. & Obler, L.K. (2014). Idiom properties influencing idiom production in

younger and older adults. Mental Lexicon, 9, 294-315.

Karthikeyan, S. and Locke, J. (2015). Men’s Evaluation of Women’s Speech in a Simulated

Dating Context: Effects of Female Fertility on Vocal Pitch and Attractiveness. Evolutionary

Behavioral Sciences, 9, (1), 55-67

Whalen, D. H., & McDonough, J. M. (2015). Taking the laboratory into the field. Annual

Review of Linguistics, 1, 395–415.

Yang, B., & Whalen, D. H. (2015). Perception and production of American English vowels by

American males and females. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 35, 121-141

Yoon, J., Campanelli, L., Goral, M., Marton, K., Eichorn, N. and Obler. L.K. (2015) The

Effect of Plausibility on Sentence Comprehension Among Older Adults and its Relation to

Cognitive Functions, Experimental Aging Research: An International Journal Devoted to the

Scientific Study of the Aging Process, 41:3, 272-302

In Press

Battaglia, D., & McDonald, M.E., (in press). Effects of the picture exchange communication

system (PECS) on maladaptive behavior in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD): A

review of the literature. Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals,

10 (1), 8-20.

Carozza, L. (in press). Communication and Aging: Creative approaches to improving quality of

life. Plural Pubs.

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Gitterman, M. (in press). Fostering oral communication skills in second language learners:

Thoughts on pedagogy. In S. Fan, T. Le, and Q. Le (Eds.) Linguistics and Language Education

in New Horizons: The Link between Theory, Research and Pedagogy. New York: Nova Science

Publishers.

Goldenberg, D., Tiede, M. K., & Whalen, D. H. (in press). Aero-tactile influence on speech

perception of voicing continua. Paper presented at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic

Sciences, Glasgow.

Higby, E., & Obler, L. K. (in press). Losing a first language to a second language. In J.

Schwieter (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Processing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge

University Press

McDonald, M., & Battaglia, D., (in press). 21st Century Classroom Resources. In E. Blue & S.

McPherson (Eds.), Student, Environment, Tasks, and Technology Tools (SETT) for the Digital

Learner. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

McDonald, M.E., Battaglia, D., & Keane, M. (in press). Using Fixed-Interval based prompting

to increase a student’s initiation of PECS. Speech Language Pathology. Applied Behavior

Analysis and Standard Celeration Charting, 20 (2).

Thompson, S., Henin, S., & Long, G. (in press). Negative middle ear pressure and composite

and component distortion product otoacoustic emissions. Ear and Hearing.

Eve Higby (left) and Jet Vonk (right) presented their latest study at the Cognitive Neuroscience

Society on March 31, 2015 in San Francisco, CA. Looks like they had a great time!

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PRESENTATIONS

An, L., Martin, B.A., &

Long, G.R., (2015,

February). Processing of

English /r/ and /l/ by native

Korean, Japanese, and

American English listeners

using the acoustic change

complex. Presented at 38th

Annual Midwinter Meeting

of Association for

Research in

Otolaryngology,

Baltimore, MD.

An, L., Martin, B.A., &

Long, G.R. (2015, May).

Encoding of English /r/

and /l/ by American,

Korean, and Japanese

listeners using the acoustic

change complex (ACC).

Presented at XXIV

Biennial Symposium of the

International Evoked

Response Audiometry

Study Group (IERASG),

Busan, Korea.

An, L., Martin, B.A. (2015, May).

Discrimination of English

/r/ and /l/ by American,

Korean, and Japanese

listeners using the

Mismatch Negativity

(MMN). Presented at

XXIV Biennial

Symposium of the

International Evoked

Response Audiometry

Study Group (IERASG),

Busan, Korea.

Barroso-Walker, S.,

Rodriguez, J., Altman, C.,

Walters, J., and Neumann-

Werth, Y.,

(2015, April). Investigating

Fluency Markers in

Bilingual Aphasia. Poster

session presented at the

QC Sigma Xi Research

Day, Queens, NY.

Barroso-Walker, S.,

Rodriguez, J., Altman, C.,

Walters, J., and Neumann-

Werth, Y.,

(2015, March) A Bilingual

Aphasia Case Study of

Fluency Markers. Poster

session presented at the

Graduate School and

University Center Student

Research Poster Day, New

York, NY.

Barroso-Walker, S.,

Rodriguez, J., and

Neumann-Werth, Y.,

(2015, March) A Pilot

Study of an

Electrophysiological

Investigation of Aphasic

Naming Errors. Poster

session presented at the

Graduate School and

University Center Student

Research Poster Day, New

York, NY.

Conner, P.S. (2015,

January). Transcranial

direct current stimulation:

Application to remediation

of persistent developmental

stuttering. NYC

Neuromodulation

Conference, City College,

New York, NY.

Kosky, C., Mejia, D.,

Luciano, M., Rivera, L.,

(2015, April).

Bilingualism: Information

for School Personnel via a

Workshop Presentation.

Poster Presentation at the

New York State Speech

Language Hearing

Association’s Annual

Convention, Rochester,

NY.

Kosky, C., Bumbolow, S.,

Czarnocha, E., Spinelli, A.,

Sullivan, A. (2015, April).

Improving Communication

between Health

Professionals and Persons

with Dementia. Poster

Presentation at the New

York State Speech

Language Hearing

Association’s Annual

Convention, Rochester,

NY.

Longtin, S., (2015, April).

Voices from the Spectrum:

Learning from Memoirs”

at the Spring Conference

of the Asperger Syndrome

and High Functioning

Autism Association,

Adelphi University,

Garden City, NY.

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Martin, B.A. (2015, May).

The effects of stimulus

alternation rate on the

efficiency of the acoustic

change complex in infants

and toddlers. Presented at

XXIV Biennial

Symposium of the

International Evoked

Response Audiometry

Study Group (IERASG),

Busan, Korea.

Martin, B.A. (2015, May).

Stimulus presentation

strategies for eliciting the

acoustic change complex

in infants. Presented at

XXIV Biennial

Symposium of the

International Evoked

Response Audiometry

Study Group (IERASG),

Busan, Korea.

Martin, B.A. (2015, May).

The effects of

reverberation on auditory

evoked potentials.

Presented at XXIV

Biennial Symposium of the

International Evoked

Response. Busan, Korea

Martin, B., (2015, April).

Hearlab Training

Workshop for the Center

for Hearing and

Communication, New

York, NY.

Martin, B.A., &

Moncrieff, D. (2015,

May). Cortical Response

V. Session moderators.

Presented at XXIV

Biennial Symposium of the

International Evoked

Response Audiometry

Study Group (IERASG),

Busan, Korea.

Marton, K. (May, 2015).

Do Bilingual Children

Perform More Efficiently

in Different Experimental

Tasks Than Their

Monolingual Peers?

Invited speaker of the

Bilingualism and

Executive Function

Conference, Graduate

Center, New York, NY

Marton, K. &

Campanelli, L. (May,

2015). Effects of language

proficiency on speed of

processing in executive

function tasks in children.

Symposium presentation.

Tenth International

Symposium on

Bilingualism, Rutgers

University, New

Brunswick, NJ.

Neumann-Werth, Y.,

(2015, May) Face to Face

with Aphasia. Invited

speaker at the Margaret

Teitz Nursing and

Rehabilitation Center

Symposium, Jamaica, NY.

Neumann-Werth, Y.,

Altman, C., and Walters,

J.A., (2014, November).

Case Study of

Codeswitching and

Discourse Markers in

Bilingual Aphasia. Poster

session presented at the

annual convention of the

American Speech-

Language-Hearing

Association, Orlando,

Florida.

Neumann-Werth, Y.,

Epstein, B., and Shafer,

V., (2014, November).

Content vs. Function

Words: An

Electrophysiological

Investigation of Discourse

Processing. Poster session

presented at the annual

convention of the

American Speech-

Language-Hearing

Association, Orlando,

Florida.

Obler, L. K., Paplikar,

A., Korytkowska, M., &

Gitterman, M. (January,

2015). Aging and language

mixing in bilingual

aphasia. Workshop on

Bilingualism and

Cognitive Control,

Groningen, Netherlands.

Obler, L.K.,

Korytkowska, M.,

Ashaie, S., and Vonk, J.,

(2015, April). Language in

Dementia: Update on

Research and Clinical

Practice, New York, NY.

Paplikar, A., Goral, M.,

Gitterman, M., & Obler,

L. K., (May 2015).

Language Mixing vs.

Borrowing in Bilingual

Speakers with Aphasia and

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Neurologically Healthy.

Presented at the

International Symposium

on Bilingualism, New

Brunswick, New Jersey.

Sekerina, I. A.,

Campanelli, L., & Van

Dyke, J. A. (2015, March).

Retrieval interference in

spoken language

comprehension. Presented

at the 28th Annual CUNY

Conference on Human

Sentence Processing, Los

Angeles, CA.

Shafer, V., (2015,

January). Research on

Bilingualism in New York

City. Presented at the One-

Year Anniversary for the

Center for

Multilingualism,

University of Kontanz,

Konstanz, Germany.

Tan, C.T., Martin, B.A.,

Seward, K, Prosolovich,

K., Guo, B., Glassman, E.,

Svirsky, M.

(2015, May). Auditory

evoked responses to

electro-acoustic pitch

matching in unilateral

cochlear implant users

with contralateral residual

hearing. Presented at

XXIV Biennial

Symposium of the

International Evoked

Response Audiometry

Study Group (IERASG),

Busan, Korea.

Robinson, S., Allen, J. &

Thompson, S. (2015). Effects of Static

Negative Middle-Ear

Pressure on Wideband

Acoustic Immittance.

Presentation at the Annual

Scientific and Technology

Conference of the

American Auditory

Society, Scottsdale, AZ.

Vonk, J. M. J., Higby, E.,

Cahana-Amitay, D., &

Obler, L. K. (2015,

March). Years of education

differentially linked to

language and cognitive

performance on only a

subset of tasks among

older adults. Poster

presentation at the 2015

Cognitive Neuroscience

Society annual meeting,

San Francisco, CA.

Wang, W-J., Martin,

B.A., Long, G., & Tan, C-

T. (2015, February).

Cortical encoding of

frequency glides. Presented

at 38th Annual Midwinter

Meeting of Association for

Research in

Otolaryngology,

Baltimore, MD.

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Dr. Klara Marton presented at a panel at the Bilingualism and Executive Function Workshop on

May 18-19, 2015 at the Graduate Center.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Rupa Balachandran is the new Audiology Program Director in the Department of Speech-

Language Pathology and Audiology at the University of Pacific, Thomas J. Long School of

Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Dana Battaglia received a Pathways Program grant from ASHA in June, 2015.

Luca Campanelli received a Doctoral Student Research grant and the Dissertation Year

Fellowship from the Graduate Center. Congratulations!

Katherine Dawson received a Dissertation Year Fellowship fro, the Graduate Center.

Eve Higby has several accomplishments since the last Newsletter. She has received a Doctoral

Student Research grant, the Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate Center,

as well as an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in Linguistics. Well done!

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Yael Neumann received a grant, Undergraduate Research/Mentoring Education (URME)

Initiative, along with his student for the project, Codeswitching and Discourse Markers in

Bilingual Aphasia, in March 2015.

Suzanne Thompson received the St. John's University Chapter of the National Student Speech-

Language-Hearing Association Distinguished Alumni Award.

Jet Vonk received a Doctoral Student Research Grant.

Other News

Zara Waldman Deluca was accepted to ASHA’s Research Mentoring (ARM) Network’s

Pathways Program for 2014. Here is link about the program

http://www.asha.org/Research/Pathways-Program/[asha.org] Her assigned mentor is Dr. Ann

Geers.

Susan Longtin was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Speech

Communication Arts and Sciences at Brooklyn College.

Arlene C. Neuman was elected as a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for her

contributions in the areas of classroom acoustics and hearing aid development.

Jet Vonk was filmed for Dutch television and aired on April 8, 2015. The interview is part of a

miniseries on Brabanders in New York. Jet discusses her research on language, the brain and

dementia and her experience living in New York. Part of the interview was filmed at the GC in

the Neurolinguistics lab. You can view the interview on YouTube at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mrfisExzK8

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Contribute to the Speech-Language Hearing Sciences Doctoral

Student Fellowship

Thank you to all who have contributed and who continually contribute donation to the Speech-

Language-Hearing Sciences Doctoral Student Fellowships. The fellowships and the discretionary

funds allow the program to help students every year.

Four funds have been set up to honor three colleagues who contributed importantly to our

program: Professors Moe Bergman, Arthur Bronstein and Martin Gitterman.

The Professor Arthur J. Bronstein and Elsa Bronstein Fellowship for Excellence in Dissertation

Writing in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences.

Moe and Hannah Bergman Scholarship for Conference Travel: The Moe and Hannah Bergman

Award makes funds available to students who travel to present research papers at conferences.

Martin Gitterman Excellence in Teaching Award: The Martin Gitterman Teaching Award gives

awards for Excellence in Teaching.

The recipients for 2015 are:

The Professor Arthur J. Bronstein and Elsa Bronstein Fellowship for Excellence in Dissertation

Writing

Amy Vogel-Eyny

Moe and Hannah Bergman Scholarship for Conference Travel

Jessica Scheuer

Amy Vogel-Eyny

Jet Vonk

Martin Gitterman Excellence in Teaching Award

Sameer Ashaie

Eve Higby

These awards are given to a number of students each year. To contribute to one or either fund,

please send a check payable to The Graduate Center Foundation. All checks should include

account number 212731. Please indicate this number as well as the name of the award in which

you want your contribution placed (e.g., Bergman, Bronstein, Gitterman, Rees).

In addition to the above accounts the program also has a discretionary fund. The account number

for this fund is 213933 which the program is free to use at their discretion.

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All checks should be made out to The Graduate Center Foundation and sent to:

CUNY Graduate Center

Attention: Development Office

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Please be sure to put the account number 213933 or 212731 in the memo section of your

check.