The New Investigators Research Grant supports research activities of new investigators who have earned their doctorate degree within the past five years.
2023
Awarded $10,000 each
- Mariana Mendes Bahia
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University
- Proposal: Cortical Activity and Respiratory-Swallowing Coordination in Post-Stroke Survivors With Dysphagia
- Margaret Cychosz
- Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
- Proposal: The Impact of Cochlear Implant Device Limitations on Preschoolers’ Real-Time Phonological Processing Skills
- Katelyn Kotlarek
- Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
- Proposal: Perceptual and Acoustic Characteristics of Nasal Coupling in Children
- Arianna LaCroix
- Assistant Professor, Purdue University
- Proposal: Investigating Music Listening as a Mechanism to Improve Attention and Language in Aphasia
- Emily Morrow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Proposal: Development of Ecological Momentary Intervention for Word Learning in Adults With Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury
- Mona Oster
- Education and Research Director, Listen and Talk
- Research Associate, Western Washington University
- Proposal: Development of Voice Emotion Perception in 3- to 5-Year-Old Children With Hearing Loss
- Danika Pfeiffer
- Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
- Proposal: Emergent Writing Profiles of Preschoolers With Developmental Language Disorder
- Jessica Riccardi
- Assistant Professor, University of Maine
- Proposal: Fatigue, Social Communication and Participation After Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury
- Juliana Ronderos
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University
- Proposal: The Role of Parental Factors in Predicting Language Abilities Among Spanish-English Bilingual Children
- Anumitha Venkatraman
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Proposal: Creating a Model to Redefine the Relationship Between Psychosocial Stress and Voice Physiology Through Microbiology and Molecular Biology Lenses
2022
Awarded $10,000 each
- Tiana Cowan
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Factors Influencing Adaptation to Unfamiliar Accented Speech for Bilingual and Monolingual Children
- Hope Gerlach-Houck
- Assistant Professor
- Western Michigan University
- Real-time Assessment of Daily Discrimination Experiences and Mood States Among Adults Who Stutter
- Teresa Girolamo
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- University of Connecticut
- Determining the Role of Social Determinants of Health in Young Adulthood Outcomes of Autistic Black, Indigenous, and People of Color With Language Impairment
- Kelsey Klein
- Assistant Professor
- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Children's Real-Time Spoken Word Recognition While Listening in Two-Talker Speech
- Caroline Larson
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- University of Connecticut
- Language-Related Neural Function in Developmental Language Disorder
- Lois Bloom Language Development Research Fund
- Helen Long
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Prelinguistic Vocal Behaviors in Infants at Risk of Cerebral Palsy Under 24 Months
- Alison Prahl
- Assistant Professor
- Baylor University
- Treatment to Improve Language Outcomes for Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Written Language Intervention for Functional Texts
- Kaila Stipancic
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- University at Buffalo
- Effects of Speaker and Listener Characteristics on the Minimally Detectable Change of Speech Intelligibility: Dysarthria Etiology, Speech Severity, and Listener Experience
- Laura Toles
- Assistant Professor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Defining Clinically Important Differences in Cepstral and Spectral Measures in Individuals With and Without Phonotrauma
2021
Awarded $10,000 each
- Nichol Castro
- Assistant Professor
- University at Buffalo
- Determining the Distance of Spreading Activation in the Phonological Network of Persons With Aphasia to Inform Selection of Treatment Generalization Probes
- Mackenzie E. Fama
- Assistant Professor
- The George Washington University
- Inner Speech and Executive Function Ability in Aphasia
- Annalise Fletcher
- Assistant Professor
- Utah State University
- Assessing Speaker Implementation of Communication-Based Treatment Strategies
- Jessica Gormley
- Assistant Professor
- University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Teaching Acute Care Providers to Use Visual Supports and Create Communication Opportunities in Healthcare Routines: Effects of a Just-in-Time Augmentative and Alternative Communication Training
- Christopher C. Heffner
- Assistant Professor
- University at Buffalo
- Speech Perception in Parkinson’s Disease: Loudness and Rate
- Thea Knowles
- Assistant Professor
- University at Buffalo
- Prominence and Communicative Intent in Dysarthria
- Marion C. Leaman
- Assistant Professor
- University of Kansas Medical Center
- Therapeutic Use of Everyday Communication to Improve Conversation in Aphasia
- Kelsey Mandak
- Assistant Professor
- Carlow University
- Development and Evaluation of the Family-Centered Augmentative and Alternative Communication Scale
- Jessica Obermeyer
- Assistant Professor
- University of North Carolina Greensboro
- Treatment to Improve Multi-Modality Discourse Production in Mild Aphasia: An Extension of Findings From Attentive Reading With Constrained Summarization-Written
- Pumpki Lei Su
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Delaware
- Word Learning from Infant-Directed Speech in Bilingual Children
Supported by the Lois Bloom Language Development Research Fund
2020
Awarded $10,000 each
- Carlos Benítez-Barrera
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- University of Texas at Dallas
- Quality of Auditory Environments: Impact on Neural and Behavioral Outcomes of Children From Low Socioeconomic Homes
- Meghan M. Davidson
- Assistant Professor
- University of Kansas
- The Role of Social Communication Child and Text Factors in Comprehension for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Typically Developing Peers
- Eileen Haebig
- Assistant Professor
- Louisiana State University
- Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Kelly Nicole Jahn
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear; Harvard Medical School
- Physiological Markers of Sound Intolerance in Individuals With Hyperacusis
- Brittany N. Krekeler
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Northwestern University
- Device Facilitated Lingual Strength and Skill: Comparison of Devices in Healthy Adults and Individuals With Stroke
- Matthew Masapollo
- Assistant Professor
- University of Florida
- Mechanisms of Speech Motor Sequence Learning
- Jena McDaniel
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Kansas
- Increasing Child Vocalizations to Facilitate Language Skills of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Supported by the Lois Bloom Language Development Research Fund
- Victoria Sue McKenna
- Assistant Professor
- University of Cincinnati
- Sensorimotor Reflexes in Hyperfunctional Voice Disorders
- Ileana Ratiu
- Assistant Professor
- Midwestern University
- The Impact of Auditory Distraction on Executive Function and Reading Comprehension in Individuals With and Without Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: An Eye-Tracking Study
- Naomi Rodgers
- Assistant Professor
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Visual Social Attention Among Adolescents Who Stutter
2019
Awarded $10,000 each
- Jamie Beth Boster
- Director of Speech and Language Research
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Increasing Social Interactions Between Children With Complex Communication Needs and Peers: Effects of a Collaborative Photography Intervention and Parallel Training for Speech-Language Pathologists
- Lisa Fitton
- Assistant Professor
- University of South Carolina
- Assessment of Spanish-English Speakers' Language and Literacy Development
- Zoi Gkalitsiou
- Assistant Professor
- University of Texas at Austin
- Working Memory Ability in Adults Who Stutter
- Alison Eisel Hendricks
- Assistant Professor
- University at Buffalo
- Factors Influencing Use of Nonmainstream Dialect Features in Typically-Developing Children
- Corinne A. Jones
- Assistant Professor
- University of Texas at Austin
- Objective Measurement of Swallowing Physiology in Multiple Sclerosis and Response to Dalfampridine
- Shae D. Morgan
- Assistant Professor
- University of Louisville
- Auditory Processing of Suprasegmental Speech Information
- Brielle C. Stark
- Assistant Professor
- Indiana University
- Reliability of Spoken Discourse in Speakers With Aphasia
- Michelle C.S. Therrien
- Assistant Professor
- Florida State University
- Training Preschool Teachers to Support Peer Interaction for Children With Complex Communication Needs
- Sarah N. Villard
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Boston University
- Persons With Aphasia at the Cocktail Party: Influence of Linguistic-Semantic Factors on Selective Attention to Target Speech
View New Investigators Research Grant recipients before 2019 [PDF].