Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Newsletter Fall 2014
Greetings
On behalf of faculty and staff of the Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing
Sciences, I am pleased to present you with the Fall, 2014 newsletter. This was a
very exciting semester with great achievements by students, faculty, and alumni.
This issue brings you information about the most recent research projects and
events. I would like to take this opportunity and express my gratitude for your
continuous interest and support. The generosity of our alumni provided students
with research, travel, and teaching fellowships this year. As we are getting ready to
celebrate the 50th anniversary of our program next year, we look forward to hearing
from you. Please continue sending us your news and memories of our program.
Happy 2015!
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Dissertation Defenses
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Naomi Eichorn and Dr. Maryamm Naghibolhosseini for
successfully presenting their Dissertation Defense. Congratulations!
Dr. Naomi Eichorn defended on September 11, 2014.
“When Less Can Be More: Dual Task Effects in Stuttering and Fluent Adults”
Chair: Dr. Klara Marton
Dr. Maryamm Naghibolhosseini defended on December 8, 2014
“Estimation of Outer-Middle Ear Transmission using DPOAEs and Fractional-Order Modeling
of Human Middle Ear”
Chair: Dr. Glenis Long
Second Level Research Projects and Second Examinations
Reethee Antony passed her second
examination on July 22, 2014.
Zarabeth Waldman-Deluca presented her
second level research project, “Gap-Filling
Ability and the Effect of Working Memory
on Wh-Question Comprehension in Typical
Children: An Eyetracking Study”, on
September 10, 2014.
Kate Dawson presented her second level
research project, “Techniques for
quantifying tongue shape and complexity
using ultrasound imaging”, on December 11,
2014. She also passed her second
examination on October 8, 2014.
Amy Vogel passed her second examination
on October 29, 2014.
First Examinations
The following students passed first examination:
Chanie Monoker – May 28, 2014. “A
Study of the Acoustic Change Complex in
Children with a History of Otitis Media”
Advisor – Dr. Brett Martin
Melissa Monteiro – June 4, 2014.
“Perception of Konkani Features by
Nonnative Speakers”
Advisor – Dr. Brett Martin
Jet Vonk – September 5, 2014.
“Interaction Effects of Psycholinguistic
Variables in Lexical Processing”
Advisor – Dr. Loraine Obler
Richard Lissemore – November 11, 2014
“Effects of American English glottal
consonants on post-consonantal voicing”
Advisor – Dr. Douglas Whalen
A Meeting of the Minds!!
Dr. Obler’s Neurolinguistics lab meeting.
Dr. Marton’s Cognition and Language lab meeting.
PUBLICATIONS
Brooks, P.J., and Kempe, V., (Eds.).
(2014). Encyclopedia of Language
Development, Sage Publications.
Baylow, H., Goldfarb, R., and Steinberg, R.
(2014). Swallowing effect and suspected
neuromuscular fatigue in adults with acute
stroke: A videofluorographic analysis.
Journal of Medical Speech-Language
Pathology, 21, 333-342.
Eichorn, N., Marton, K., Campanelli, L.,
& Scheuer, J. (2014). Verbal strategies and
nonverbal cues in school-age children with
and without specific language impairment
(SLI). International Journal of Language &
Communication Disorders, 49(5), 618–630.
Fligor, B. J., Levey, S., and Levey, T.
(2014). Cultural and demographic factors
influencing noise exposure estimates from
use of portable listening devices in an urban
environment, Journal of Speech, Language,
and Hearing Research, 57, 1535-1547
Galletta, E., Vogel, A., and Baumann, S.
(2014). Talking and tDCS Treatment for
Stroke Survivors with Aphasia. Brain
Stimulation, 7(2), e6.
doi:10.1016/j.brs.2014.01.024
Gelfand, S.A. (2014). Essentials of
Audiology, 3rd Ed., Chinese Translation.
Taiwan: Ho-Chen Book Publishing Co.
Higby, E., and Obler, L. K. (2014). The
adaptation of native language construal
patterns in second language acquisition. In
P. Lintunen, M. S. Peltola, & M.-L.Varila
(Eds.), Special issue of AFinLA, Festschrift
in Honour of Paivi Pietila, 6, 32-44.
Karthikeyan, S., and Locke, J. L. (2014).
Men’s evaluation of women’s speech in a
simulated dating context. Evolutionary
Behavioral Sciences, July 14.
Marton, K. & Eichorn, N. (2014).
Interaction between working memory and
long-term memory: A study in children with
and without language impairment.
Zeitschrift für Psychologie, Special Issue:
Applied memory research, 222 (2), 90-99.
Marton, K. & Yoon, J. (2014). Cross-
linguistic investigations of language
impairments. In. P. Brooks & V. Kempe
(Eds.). Encyclopedia of Language
Development. Sage Reference, 123-127.
Marton, K., Kövi, Zs., Farkas, L. & Egri, T.
(2014). Everyday functions and needs of
individuals with disability: A reliability and
validity study based on the principles of the
ICF. Psychiatria Hungarica, 29 (4), 398-
409).
Marton, K. (2015). Theoretically driven
experiments may clarify questions about the
bilingual advantage. Bilingualism: Language
and Cognition 18 (1), 37–38.
Wang, W.J., Martin, B.A., Long, G.R. and
Tan, C.T. (2014). Can frequency
discrimination be indexed by
electrophysiological measures? Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America, 135(4),
2415
In Press
Goldfarb, R., (in press). Curses,
Blasphemies, and Obscenities: An Analysis
of Strong Language.
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.
Huntley Bahr, R., and Silliman, E., co.
editors, (in press). The Handbook of
Communication Disorders. Abingdon,
Oxford, UK: Routledge.
Yoon, J., Campanelli, L., Goral, M.,
Marton, K., Eichorn, N., & Obler, L. K. (in press). The effect of plausibility on
sentence comprehension among older adults
and its relation to cognitive functions.
Experimental Aging Research.
Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Annual Alumni Event
on October 24, 2014
Lawrence Raphael, Brett Martin, Barbara Franklin, Richard Schwartz
Valerie Shafer and Elizabeth Galletta
PRESENTATIONS
Almodovar, D., Brooks,
P., and Schwartz, R.,
(2014, November). Effects
of Phonological
Neighborhood Density on
Lexical Access Children
With & Without Specific
Language Impairment.
ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Battaglia, D., and
Goldfarb, R. (2014,
November). Word
Association of Multimodal
Stimuli in Individuals with
ASD. ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Benson-Goldberg, S.,
Huntley Bahr, R.,
Silliman, E., and Barker,
R.M., (2014, November).
Misspellings Are
Developmentally Complex
II: Individual Differences
in Spelling Derivations
Over Time. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Berkowitz, S., and
Woodruff, K., (2014,
November). Mothers’
Reports on Typical Sibling
Language Development:
Influence of the Sibling
with Autism. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Buhler, H., and
Berkowitz, S., (2014,
November). Mission to
Lima, Peru: Cross-Cultural
Intervention & Family
Training for Children with
Cleft Palate. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Cahana-Amitay, Lee, L.,
Ojo, E., Spiro, A., Obler,
L.K. and Albert, M.L.,
(2014, April). The Effects
of Pulmonary Function on
Sentence Processing in
Aging, CAC. Atlanta, GA.
Centeno, J., (2014,
November). Aphasia
Services in a Diverse
Society: Evidential and
Clinical Bases for
Bilingual Speakers in
Neurorehabilitation.
ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Ciallella, E., Didyk, C.,
and Kollia, H., (2014,
November). Stimulus
Preference in Individuals
With Autism Spectrum
Disorder & Its Relation to
Eye Gaze. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Crowley, C., & Goldfarb,
R. (2014, November).
Effects of Deep Brain
Stimulation on
Communication. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Eichorn, N., Marton, K.,
Campanelli, L., and
Scheuer, J. (2014, June).
Verbal Strategies and
Nonverbal Cues in School-
age Children With and
Without SLI. Presented at
the Symposium on
Research in Child
Language Disorders,
Madison, WI.
Fishman, I., Djukic, A.,
and Schwartz, R., (2014,
November). Assessing
Lexical Comprehension in
Girls With Rett Syndrome:
An Eye-Tracking Study.
ASHA, Orlando FL.
Fretterd, C., and
Victorino, K., (2014,
November). Living
Successfully With Aphasia:
What It Means to Speech-
Language Pathologists &
Their Clients. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Galletta, E. and Vogel, A.,
(2014, October). Treatment
of Aphasia Combining
Neuromodulation and
Behavioral Intervention:
Taking an Impairment and
Functional Approach.
Poster session presented at
Academy of Aphasia
Conference, Miami, Fl.
Gelfand, S.A., (2014,
November). Development
of a Multi-faceted Speech
Recognition Test. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Gold, J., Emara, N., and
Kollia, H., (2014,
November). Animated
Symbol Preference in
Children With Autism for
AAC Usage. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Higby, E., and Obler, L.
K. (2014, October),
Individual differences in
interference control
in bilinguals with varying
levels of L2 proficiency.
Oral presentation at the
University
of Illinois-Chicago
Bilingualism Forum,
Chicago, IL.
Higby, E., Caldart, G., and
Obler, L. K., (2014,
September). The cost of
bilingualism:
Speed of lexical retrieval
affected by L2 proficiency
level. Poster presentation at
the
Mental Lexicon
conference, Niagara-on-
the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.
Higby, E., Cahana-
Amitay, D., Vogel, A.,
Spiro III, A., Albert, M.,
and Obler, L. K.,
(2014, September), It’s not
enough to look at age: The
role of EF in naming
among older
adults. Oral presentation at
the Mental Lexicon
conference, Niagara-on-
the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.
Hyter, Y., Berkowitz, S.,
Huh, J., Tella, M., Salas-
Provance, M., and Shekim,
L., (2014, November).
Accessing the International
Experience as a Student,
Professional, or Volunteer.
ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Kamowski-Shakibai, M.,
Magaldi, N.M., and Kollia,
H., (2014, November).
Paternal Age &
Prevalence of Autism
Spectrum Disorders &
Communication Disorders:
Case History
Questionnaire. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Kim, J., Higby, E., Yoon,
J., Mehl, T., Obler, L. K.,
and Goral, M., (2014,
June). The effects of
relative clause complexity
on auditory sentence
comprehension. 2014
Korean Society for
Language and Information
Workshop on Meaning and
Cognition. Seoul, Korea.
Kim, J., Higby, E., Yoon,
J., Mehl, T., Goral, M., &
Obler, L. K., (2014,
November).
The effects of relative
clause complexity on
auditory sentence
comprehension. Oral
Presentation at the 26th
Greater New York
Conference on Behavioral
Research,
New York, NY.
Kollia, H., and
Zolotkovsky, R., (2014,
November). L1
Interference in L2 Syntax,
Semantics, & Grammar in
Bilinguals: Intervention
Strategies. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Kosky, C., Chong, D.,
Colucci, K., Hawkins, L.,
and Partsinevelos, L.,
(2014, November)
MacArthur Bates
Communicative
Developmental
Inventories: Comparison
of Primary Caregivers’
Reports. ASHA, Orlando,
FL.
Kosky, C., Kennedy, E.,
Pannazzo, D., Bonica, N.,
and Andritsopoulos, K.,
(2014, November)
Preferred Communication
Styles: Perspectives of
Hearing-Impaired
Community College
Students, ASHA, Orlando,
FL.
Kosky, C. and Tourloukis,
V., (2014, October) Oral
Communication Groups
for Senior Citizens:
Graduate Student
Reflections on Community
Service. State Society on
Aging of New York, 42nd
Annual Conference
Fordham University
Lincoln Center Campus,
New York, NY.
Levey, S. (2014, August).
Keynote Speaker
Evidence-based
assessment and
intervention approaches.
SLT-Summer School-
edition 2014, University of
Malta, Malta
Lissemore, R., and Gray
Miller, D., (2014,
May/June). A Wired
Demonstration of Female
Belt voice: a real-time
examination of acoustic
phenomena using
electroglottography and
Voce Vista software
analysis, Presented paper
and workshop at The
Voice Foundation
Symposium, Philadelphia,
PA
Lissemore, R., (2014,
July). Standard Pedagogy
and Technique for the
Female Belt Voice. The
National Association of
Teachers of Singing
Annual Conference,
Boston, MA.
Lopez, K., (2014,
November). Scalar
Implicature in High-
Functioning Autism: A
Case Study. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Marton, K., Surányi, Zs.,
& Egri, T. (2014).
Interference control in
children with
neurodevelopmental
disorders: SLI, autism,
ADHD. 35th Symposium
on Research in Child
Language Disorders.
Madison, WI
Marx, J., Angstreich and
Gelfer, C., (2014,
November). Effects of
Ataxic Dysarthria on
Vowel Identification:
Acoustic & Perceptual
Characteristics. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
McClelland, C., Foreman,
L., and Kollia, H., (2014,
November). The
Effectiveness of the iPad
on Reading
Comprehension Test
Performance in
Comparison With
Traditional Methods.
ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Neumann-Werth, Y.,
Altman, C., and Walters,
J., (2014, November). A
Case Study of
Codeswitching and
Discourse Markers in
Bilingual Aphasia. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Neumann-Werth, Y.,
Epstein, B., and Shafer,
V., (2014, November)
Content vs. Function
Words: An
Electrophysiological
Investigation of Discourse
Processing. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Nittrouer, S., (2014,
November). The title is
Beyond Early Intervention:
Supporting Deaf Children
Through Elementary
School. ASHA, Orlando,
FL
Obler, L.K., (2014,
June/July). Bilingualism
and the Brain and
Bilingualism and aging:
Healthy adults and those
with dementia. 6e Ecole
d’été en
logopédie/orthophonie,
Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Obler, L.K., Hyun, J.,
Paplikar, A., Higby, E.,
Goral, M., & Cahana-
Amitay, D.
(2014, July). Measuring
lexical retrieval in older
adults’ discourse. Poster
Presentation at the
International
Neuropsychological
Society Mid-Year
Meeting,
Jerusalem, Israel.
Obler, L.K., Hyun, J.M.
Paplikar, A., Higby, E.,
and Goral, M., and
Cahana-Amitay, D., (2014,
July). Measuring Lexical
Retrieval in Older Adults’
Discourse. INS, Jerusalem.
O'Connor Wells, B., &
Obler, L. K., (2014,
October). Another Type of
Bilingual Advantage?
Tense-Mood-Aspect
Frequency, Verb-Form
Regularity and Context-
Governed Choice in
Bilingual vs. Monolingual
Spanish Speakers with
Agrammatism. Academy
of Aphasia, Miami, FL.
Riguelme, L., and
Tristani, M., (2014,
November). Dysphagia in
Persons With Dementia:
Seeking Evidence for What
We Do. ASHA. Orlando,
FL.
Roesler, C., Yu, Y.,
MacRoy-Higgins, M.,
Cantiani, C., Choudhury,
N., Zane, E., Kresh, S.,
Flax, J., and Benasich, A.
(2014, November). Testing
Semantic & Syntactic
Processing in Minimally
Verbal Children With
Autism Spectrum
Disorders Using
Electrophysiology. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Scheuer, J., Campanelli,
L., and Marton, K. (2014,
November). Interference
control in school-age
children with and without
SLI. Presented at the
American Speech-
Language-Hearing
Association convention,
Orlando, FL.
Schlisselberg, G., (2014,
November). Effective Use
of Phonetic Context to
Treat Misarticulation of /r/.
ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Schwartz, A. M., Brooks,
P. J., Sekerina, I. A., and
Campanelli, L. (2014,
July). Quantifier spreading
in school aged children:
An eye-tracking study of
attentional allocation
during comprehension of
sentences with every.
Presented at the 13th
congress of the
International Association
for the Study of Child
Language, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
Schwartz, R., Pruitt-Lord,
S., Buchwald, A., and
Brosseau-Lapre, F., (2014,
November). Considering
Joining the Next
Generation of
Researchers? Talk With
Us. ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Schwartz, R., Steinman,
S., Waldman-Deluca, Z.,
Drakopoulou, G., and
Huston, D., (2014,
November). Language
Processing in Children
With Cochlear Implants:
Lexical Access. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Shah, A., (2014,
November). Psychosocial
Problems Related to
Perceptions of Dialects,
Accents, & Diversity.
ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Shah, A., (2014,
November). A Nonbiased
Assessment Model of
Communication Potential
of International Applicants
to SLP/AUD Graduate
Programs. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Silliman, E., and Huntley
Bahr, R., (2014,
November) Seminar: The
Vocabulary-Spelling
Interface: Enriching
Literacy Intervention
Models in the CCSS Era.
ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Smith, J., Kurtzer, L., and
Kollia, H., (2014). Speech
& Language Screenings in
Head Start Programs.
ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Spiro, A., Cahana-Amitay,
and Obler, L.K., and
Albert, M.L., (2014).
Impact of Metabolic
Syndrome on Language
and Cognition in Aging.
APA.
St. John Pagano,E.,
Huntley Bahr, R.,
Silliman, E., and Barker,
R.M., (2014, November).
Misspellings Are
Developmentally Complex
I: Longitudinal Analysis of
Spelling Errors. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Tan, C.T., Glassman, E.,
Oh, S., Wang, W.J., and
Martin, B., (2014, May).
Auditory evoked responses
to perceived quality of
vocoded speech. 167th
meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America,
Providence, RI.
Tesel, C., Levy, E.,
Shafer, V., (2014,
November). The Effect of
Direction of Stimulus
Presentation on
Processing of Cognates in
Late Bilinguals. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Tesel, C., Levy, E., and
Shafer, V., (2014,
November).
Neurophysiological
Indices of the Effect of
Cognates on Vowel
Perception in Late
Spanish-English
Bilinguals. ASHA,
Orlando, FL.
Victorino, K., and
Schwartz, R., (2014,
November). Memory,
Dichotic Listening, &
Reaction Time in Specific
Language Impairment:
How Are They Related?
ASHA, Orlando, FL.
Vogel, A., Doody, S.,
Hyun, J., and Obler,
L.K., (2014, September).
Tip-of-the-Tongue (TOT)
Experiences in Aging:
Does Lexical Retrieval
Practice Make Perfect?
Poster session presented at
the Mental Lexicon
conference, Ontario,
Canada.
Vonk, J., Jonkers, R., and
Obler, L.K., (2014, April).
The Impact of Semantic
Categories and
Imageability on Language
Processing in Alzheimer’s
Disease and Healthy
Aging. CNS, Boston, MA.
Wang, W.J., Martin,
B.A., and Long, G.R.,
(2014, May). Can
frequency discrimination
be indexed by
electrophysiological
measures? 167th meeting
of the Acoustical Society
of America, Providence,
RI.
Waldman-Deluca, Z., and
Schwartz, R., (2014,
November). Wh-Question
Comprehension in
Children with Cochlear
Implants: An Eye Tracking
Study. ASHA, Orlando,
FL.
ASHA Annual Conference, November 2014
Iris Fishman (left), Karece Lopez (right), and Zara Waldman-Deluca (center) of Dr. Schwartz’s
lab, presenting their posters at ASHA in Orlando, FL., November 2014.
Emily Zane (left), Valerie Shafer (center), and Yan Yu (right) presenting at ASHA.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Recipients of the ASHA Honors Award
Richard Schwartz Elaine Silliman
Richard Schwartz and Elaine Silliman received Honors of the Association from the ASHA at
the Annual Conference Orlando, FL. On November 21, 2014. The award is the highest honor the
Association bestows and it was presented to Richard and Elaine at the ASHA Annual Conference
on November 21, 2014 in Orlando, FL.
Richard Schwartz, and Zarabeth Waldman-Deluca were one of twenty mentor-protege pairs
honored with the Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award (RMPTA) for the 2014 ASHA
Convention
Eve Higby Received the Undergraduate Research and Mentoring Grant at Queens College. The
purpose of the grant is to encourage faculty to involve undergraduate students in conducting
scientific research.
Richard Goldfarb received Honors of the Association at the New York State Speech-Language-
Hearing Association in Saratoga, NY.
Karece Lopez received the Student Research Travel Award from ASHA
Jason Rosas received the 2014 Graduate Student Scholarship from ASHA.
Teresa Signorelli earned an ASHA ACE Award for Continuing Education and she also received
a grant from the Rose Badgeley Charitable Trust for research study called, Cognitive Strategies
for Improving Listening Comprehension in Aphasia.
Other News
The Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences now has a Facebook page! Please
visit it at https://www.facebook.com/speechlanguagehearingsciences
Robert Domingo has been promoted to
Chairman if the Department of
Communication Sciences and Disorders of
LIU/Post.
Christine Kosky has earned tenure and was
promoted to Associate professor at Mercy
College.
Sandra Levey has been appointed to the
Multilingual Affairs Committee of the
international Association of Logopedics and
Phoniatrics (IALP).
Paul Milner is celebrating 25 years of his
practice, Hearing Care Center in Sharon,
MA! Congrats! The center’s website is
www.hearingcarecenter.com
Loraine Obler has been voted to the
Governing Board of the Academy of
Aphasia. She also taught a short course in,
Bilingual Aging, at the MultiLing Center at
the University of Oslo in October 2014.
Barbara O’Connor Wells is now a
Program Professor in Speech Language
Pathology at Nova Southeastern University
in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Arlyne Russo has accepted an adjunct
faculty position at Sacred Heart University
in Fairfield, CT. and has a new website,
www.aerusso.com.
Teresa Signorelli launched a talk show on
child development called, Kids AtoZ with
Dr. T., on BlogTalkRadio. She was also
interviewed for Scholastic parent and Child
Magazine article,
The (new) Power of Touch.
Contribute to the Speech-Language Hearing Sciences Doctoral
Student Fellowship
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.
Norma Rees fellowship for scholarly excellence for doctoral students in Speech-Language-
Hearing Sciences.
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.
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.
Thank you!
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