| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
| Jan 20 |
Bill Katz, Tom Campbell, Pat Reidy, UT Dallas |
Updates on Developing Communication Technology |
| Jan 27 |
Mary Pat Moeller, Boys Town National Research Hospital |
Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Mild to Severe Hearing Loss: Auditory Experience Matters |
| Feb 3 |
Jun Wang, UT Dallas |
Towards Automatic Detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) from Short, Intelligible Speech Samples |
| Feb 10 |
Candice Mills, UT Dallas |
Sparking Children’s Interest in Learning More about Science |
| Feb 17 |
Linda Thibodeau, UT Dallas |
Benefits of Using Smart-phones as Assistive Devices for Those with Hearing Loss |
| Feb 24 |
BBS Colloquium
Scott Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles |
No FLASH |
| Mar 10 |
BBS Colloquium
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Harvard Medical School |
No FLASH |
| Mar 17 |
Spring Break |
No FLASH |
| Mar 24 |
Olga Peskova, UT Dallas PhD Student |
Association between Perception and Production in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users |
| Mar 31 |
Edward Lobarinas, UT Dallas |
Effect of Inner Hair Cell Loss and Afferent Damage on Functional Hearing |
| Apr 7 |
Svenja Gusewski, UT Dallas PhD Student |
Tense Marking in the English Narrative Retells of Dual Language Preschoolers |
| Apr 14 |
Sara Benham, UT Dallas PhD Student |
An Application of Network Science to the Speech Production of Children with SLI |
| Apr 21 |
Callier Prize Conference
Sharon Kujawa & 3 Additional Speakers, Harvard Medical School |
No FLASH |
| Apr 28 |
BBS Colloquium
Margaret Owen, UT Dallas |
No FLASH |
| Aug 25 |
First Week of Classes |
No FLASH |
| Sep 1 |
Labor Day Weekend |
No FLASH |
| Sep 8 |
Bharath Chandrasekaran,
PhD
UT Austin |
Corticostriatal Systems in Auditory and Speech Categorization |
| Sep 15 |
BBS Welcome Back Luncheon |
No FLASH |
| Sep 22 |
Andrea Warner-Czyz, PhD
UT Dallas |
Influence of Early Sign Exposure on Outcomes in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users |
| Sep 29 |
Peter Assmann, PhD, Michelle Kapolowicz, Vahid Montazeri
UT Dallas |
Children’s Voices, Foreign Accent, and the Perception of Speech in Adverse Conditions |
| Oct 6 |
Pamela Rollins, PhD
UT Dallas |
Words are Not Enough: Providing the Context for Social Communication and Interaction |
| Oct 13 |
Meghan Davidson, PhD
UT Dallas |
The Reader and the Text in ASD: The Cognitive, Linguistic, and Social Characteristics |
| Oct 20 |
Lindsey Hiebert
UT Dallas Doctoral Student |
A Longitudinal Study of Language Growth and Deceleration in Bilingual Preschoolers |
| Oct 27 |
BBS Colloquium |
No FLASH |
| Nov 3 |
Haiying Yuan
UT Dallas Doctoral Student |
Data Analysis Using Item Response Theory: A Study in the Prevalence of Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder |
| Nov 10 |
ASHA Convention |
No FLASH |
| Nov 17 |
Evdoxia Doli
UT Dallas Doctoral Student |
On the Articulation of Consonant Clusters: Evidence from Greek |
| Nov 24 |
Thanksgiving |
No FLASH |
| Dec 1 |
BBS Colloquium |
No FLASH |
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
| Jan 15 |
Mariam Kavakci |
A Preschooler-friendly Auditory Task Examining Procedural Learning |
| Jan 22 |
Nicholas Hubbard,
Center for BrainHealth |
Executive Processes and Cognitive Performance: Advances from Clinical Science |
| Jan 29 |
Sudha Arunachalam, PhD,
Boston University |
What Kinds of Linguistic Contexts Best Support Verb Acquisition? |
| Feb 5 |
BBS Colloquia
Lisa Goffman, PhD,
Purdue University |
No FLASH |
| Feb 12 |
Heather Rusiewicz, PhD,
Dusquene University |
Hands Up: The Clinical Use and Empirical Study of Gestures in the Treatment of Speech Sound Disorders |
| Feb 19 |
BBS Colloquium
David Brody, PhD,
Washington University in St. Louis |
No FLASH |
| Feb 26 |
E. Susan Duncan, PhD Candidate,
University of California, Irvine |
Brain Connectivity & Aphasia Recovery |
| Mar 4 |
Anusha Mohan |
Differences in Functional Connectivity Networks of the Brain in Tinnitus and Healthy Adults |
| Mar 11 |
Hannah Pourchot |
Contributing Factors to Expressive Vocabulary Development in Cochlear Implant Users |
| Mar 18 |
Spring Break |
No FLASH |
| Mar 25 |
BBS Colloquium
James Pennebaker, PhD,
UT Austin |
No FLASH |
| Apr 1 |
Raul Rojas, PhD |
Happenings from the Bilingual Language Lab |
| Apr 8 |
Denise Finneran, PhD,
The University of Oklahoma |
The Role of the Speech Input in Morpheme Production for Children From Diverse Linguistic Backgrounds |
| Apr 15 |
Meredith Scheppele |
Structural Lateralization of Cortical Language Areas |
| Apr 22 |
Mike Crary, PhD,
University of Central Florida |
Spontaneous Swallowing Frequency: Development, Validation, Application, and Automation of a Novel Metric for Swallowing Integrity |
| Apr 29 |
BBS Colloquium
James Bartlett, PhD |
No FLASH |
| Sep 9 |
PhD and Faculty Welcome Back Lunch at Green Hall |
No FLASH |
| Sep 16 |
Julie Fratantoni, UTD PhD Student |
Electrophysiological Correlates of Word Retrieval in Traumatic Brain Injury |
| Sep 23 |
Chin-Taun Tan, UT Dallas |
Towards a Closed-loop Assistive Hearing System |
| Sep 30 |
No FLASH |
No FLASH |
| Oct 7 |
BBS Colloquium
Simine Vazire, UC Davis |
No FLASH |
| Oct 14 |
Haiying Yuan, UTD PhD Student |
Assessment of Social and Pragmatic Language Skills in Individuals with Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder |
| Oct 21 |
Melissa Boone, UTD PhD Student |
Listener Perception of Communication Ability in Simulated Language Samples |
| Oct 28 |
Robert Burkard, PhD, University of Buffalo |
The Auditory Brainstem Response in Various Vertebrate (mostly mammalian) Species |
| Nov 4 |
Sishi Liu, UTD PhD Student |
Linguistic and Emotional Prosody in the Speech of Cochlear Implanted Mandarin-Chinese Speakers |
| Nov 11 |
Kathryn Wiseman, UTD PhD Student |
Inconsistent Device Use in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users |
| Nov 18 |
ASHA Convention |
No FLASH |
| Nov 25 |
Thanksgiving Break |
No FLASH |
| Dec 2 |
James Booth, PhD, UT Austin |
How Does the Brain Learn to Read? |
| Dec 9 |
BBS Colloquium
Nina Kraus, PhD, Northwestern University |
No FLASH |
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
| Jan 23 |
Noah Sasson, PhD |
The Broad Autism Phenotype in Parents of a Child with Autism and the General Population |
| Jan 30 |
Barbara Davis, PhD |
Lexical vs. Phonological Factors in Early Word Productions of Children |
| Feb 6 |
BBS Colloquia – Howard Eichenbaum, PhD |
No FLASH |
| Feb 13 |
Mary Beth Schmitt, PhD |
The Role of Behavior Regulation in Therapy for Children with Language Impairment |
| Feb 20 |
Denise Park, PhD |
The Scaffolding Theory of the Aging Mind: Can We Predict Successful Aging? |
| Feb 27 |
|
No FLASH |
| Mar 6 |
Margaret Owen, PhD |
Beyond the 30 Million Word Gap: Building a Communication Foundation is Essential for Early Language |
| Mar 13 |
William Katz, PhD |
A Web-Based Study of Texas Accents |
| Mar 20 |
Spring Break |
| Mar 27 |
Kelly Fazel |
Pursuit Tracking Studies: Investigating the Functional Basis of AOS |
| Apr 3 |
Olga Peskova |
TBD |
| Apr 10 |
BBS Colloquia – Richard Aslin, PhD |
No FLASH |
| Apr 17 |
Doris Baker, PhD |
Research Evidence of Building Children’s Vocabulary Instruction Early |
| Apr 24 |
BBS Colloquia – Ross Roeser, PhD |
No FLASH |
| May 1 |
Laurence Leonard, Pam Hadley, Marc Fey, Elena Plante |
Callier Prize |
| Sep 4 |
Amy Pinkham, PhD |
Linking Brain and Behavior to Understand Social Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia |
| Sep 11 |
Colleen Le Prell, PhD |
Clinical Trials for Hearing Protection |
| Sep 18 |
BBS Colloquium: Suzanne Corkin, PhD |
No FLASH |
| Sep 25 |
CCF Annual Fall Forum |
No FLASH |
| Oct 2 |
Vahid Montazeri |
Predicting the SRT of Cochlear Implant Listeners in the Presence of Background Noise |
| Oct 9 |
Holly Storkel, PhD |
Interactive Book Reading to Accelerate Word Learning by Kindergarten Children with SLI (Time Change: 10:00-11:00 a.m./Room Change: A229/Videolink Change: JO 4.306) |
| Oct 16 |
Ed Lobarinas, PhD |
Hidden Hearing Loss |
| Oct 23 |
BBS Colloquium: Nelson Cowan, PhD |
No FLASH |
| Oct 30 |
Stephen Rudolf |
Automating Research |
| Nov 6 |
Johanna Rudolph |
Risk Factors for Specific Language Impairment |
| Nov 13 |
ASHA Convention |
No FLASH |
| Nov 20 |
Ola Alsalman |
Can Transcranial Electrical Stimulation Suppress
Tinnitus Loudness and Tinnitus Related Distress? |
| Nov 27 |
Thanksgiving Break |
No FLASH |
| Dec 4 |
Christine Evans |
Cost Analysis of Delayed Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Follow-up |
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
| Jan 24 |
Ola A. Alsalman, PhD |
The Building of a Neural Psychological Immune Endocrine (T-NPIE) Model of Tinnitus |
| Jan 31 |
Anne van Kleeck, PhD |
Rethinking Preschool Oral Language Assessment: Differentiating Casual Talk, Academic Talk and Language Impairment |
| Feb 7 |
BBS Colloquium – Antonio Bechara, PhD |
Neural Systems Sub-Serving Decision-Making in Addiction Disorders |
| Feb 14 |
Katandria Love Johnson, DrPH |
Enhancing the Incorporation of Motivational Interviewing in Osteopathic Medical Programs |
| Feb 21 |
Andrea Warner-Czyz, PhD |
Bullying in Adolescents Using Cochlear Implants |
| Feb 28 |
Nancy Tye-Murray, PhD |
Auditory Visual Speech Recognition in the Aging Population |
| Mar 7 |
Audrey Holland, PhD |
A Procedure for Evaluating Communication in Individuals with Severe Aphasia |
| Mar 14 |
|
Spring Break |
| Mar 21 |
BBS Colloquium – Mari Jones, PhD |
Participatory Communication: A Case for Entrained Attending |
| Mar 28 |
Sonya Mehta |
Articulatory Distinction During Vowel Production: Implications for Second Language Learning |
| Apr 4 |
Julie Schneider |
Identifying Developmental Changes in Language Processing Using EEG |
| Apr 11 |
BBS Colloquium – Brent Roberts, PhD |
The Antecedents and Development of Conscientiousness Across the Life Course |
| Apr 18 |
Linda Thibodeau, PhD |
Good Hearing, Steady Feet – Developing Auditory Devices that Improve Hearing and Decrease the Risk for Falls |
| May 2 |
BBS Colloquium Special Event – Susan Jerger, PhD – Distinguished Lecturer in Behavioral and Brain Sciences |
Perceiving Things Not as They Are, But as We Are |
| Sep 5 |
BBS Reception |
No FLASH |
| Sep 12 |
Linda Thibodeau, PhD |
Good Hearing, Steady Feet – Developing Auditory Devices that Improve Hearing and Decrease the Risk For Falls |
| Sep 19 |
BBS Colloquia (Room Change: GR 4.428) |
No FLASH |
| Sep 26 |
|
No FLASH |
| Oct 3 |
Mike Motes, PhD |
Strategic Memory and Advanced Memory Training in Middle School Children |
| Oct 10 |
Melissa Boone, PhD |
Investigating Attention in Children with Specific Language Impairment: Models and Methods |
| Oct 17 |
Mandy Maguire, PhD |
EEG Correlates of Word Learning |
| Oct 24 |
BBS Colloquia (Room Change: GR 4.428) |
No FLASH |
| Oct 31 |
Pamela Rollins, PhD |
Precursors to Social Communication: An Intervention Study |
| Nov 7 |
Richard Tyler, PhD |
Current Approaches to Helping the Tinnitus Patient |
| Nov 14 |
Elizabeth Buell |
Characteristics of Secondary Auditory Fields in an Animal Model of Tinnitus |
| Nov 21 |
ASHA Convention |
No FLASH |
| Nov 28 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
No FLASH |
| Dec 5 |
Mariam Kavakci, PhD |
Examining Implicit Procedural Motor Learning in Adults Using a Serial Picture Task |
