Clinical Research Grant Recipients

These $50,000–$75,000 grants support scientists with a research doctorate within the discipline of communication sciences and disorders to support investigations that will advance knowledge of the efficacy of treatment and assessment practices. Project funding is available for mentored treatment research, independent treatment research, or collaborative treatment research as specified in grant guidelines.

2010

Awarded $75,000 Each 

Shawn S. Goodman
Associate Professor, The University of Iowa
"Using High-Frequency Transient-Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions to Monitor Ototoxicity in Pediatric Cancer Patients"

Wei Tian
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland at College Park
"Randomized Controlled Speech Outcome Study of Two Techniques in Primary Palatal Repair"

Awarded $50,000 

Jennifer Kent-Walsh
Associate Professor & FAAST Atlantic Region Assistive Technology Demonstration Center Director, University of Central Florida 
"Teaching Children Who Use AAC to Ask Inverted Yes-No Questions"

2009

Awarded $50,000 Each

Catherine H. Balthazar
Associate Professor, Governors State University
"Building Sentence Complexity: An Intervention Study for School-Age Children with Oral and Written Language Disorders"

Monika Kordus
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
"Improving Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Performance by Binaural Loudness Adjustments"

 Awarded $70,000

Jeff Searl
Associate Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
"Face-to-Face and Telemedicine Group Voice Therapy for Individuals with Parkinson Disease"

2008

Awarded $75,000

Andrea Pittman
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
"Evaluating Advanced Signal Processing in Children with Hearing Loss"

Awarded $50,000 Each

Tiffany Johnson
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
"New Directions in Clinical Applications of Otoacoustic Emissions"

Swathi Kiran
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
"Semantic Feature Analysis in the Treatment of Lexical Retrieval Deficits in Spanish-English and French-English Bilingual Aphasia"

Nancy Pearl Solomon
Research Speech Pathologist, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
"Treating Dysphagia in Blast-Injured Patients"