Dr. Lynn Bielski
<b>Department: </b>Speech Pathology and Audiology<br><b>Research Area: </b>Auditory-visual communication, executive function/working memory, hearing across the life-span<br>
Department: Speech Pathology and Audiology
Research Focus: Auditory-visual communication, executive function/working memory, hearing across the life-span
Potential Student Project(s):
- Listening in noisy places is a challenge for children as well as adults. This project uses an interprofessional approach with audiology and speech language pathology coming together in order to investigate listening challenges for children. Students would gain experience in interprofessional education, clinical application of research findings, data collection and analysis.
- The project is on verbal fluency (stuttering) and executive function. It aims to examine the relation between stuttering and executive functions like attention and memory for auditory and visual materials. We are looking at these factors in children who are monolingual and bilingual language users. The project aims to use both behavioral measures and objective measures like EEG.
Attributes/skills/background sought in undergraduate: Self-motivated, organized, science, health-science or counseling interests.
Mentoring Plan: The student and mentor will meet each week, either in person or via phone/Zoom throughout the experience. The semester would be divided into thirds:
- Student and mentor meet to complete a skills and interests inventory. Focus background reading and writing. Ethical considerations for human subjects research and IRB protocol.
- Exploring research methods Creation of the survey instrument.
- Data collection/analysis of survey instrument.
Contact: 765-285-8160, HB 410