Accolades
Congratulations to Dr. Jessica (Lewis) Lepley on successfully defending her PhD dissertation! Dr. Lepley investigated clinically meaningful bimodal benefit, patient experiences transitioning to bilateral cochlear implants, and the factors that influence second-implant decision-making. This work was completed under the mentorship of Aaron Moberly and Christina Roup. We're also excited to celebrate her now role as Assistant Professor of Audiology at East Tennessee State University.
Congratulations to three of our lab members, Grace Silvers, Jordan Clevenger, and Averi Miller for graduating with their BAs in Speech and Hearing Science and beginning their journey in the OSU AuD program!
Congratulations to Grace Silvers on successfully defending her undergraduate thesis “The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Cochlear Implant Outcomes” this past April. Grace also received an honorable mention for her poster presentation at the Denman Research Forum in the category of Society, Commerce and Behavior.
Welcome New Lab Members
A warm welcome to our new PhD student Xiaoxue (Lexie) Zhang from Chongqing, China! Congrats to Lexie on receiving a graduate fellowship from the Department of Speech and Hearing Science. We are so happy to have you working in our lab, Lexie!
We would like to welcome Audrey Corder, a third year AuD student, to our lab, as well! Congrats to Audrey for getting a position as a Graduate Research Assistant. We can't wait to see all you accomplish in the lab this year!
Publications
The CHIC lab is excited to share a few of our recent publications with you! These publications help to further hearing research in adults with cochlear implants.
Effect of Speaking Rate and Sentence Context on Comprehension and Recognition Memory of Degraded Speech by Tirth R. Patel, Victoria A. Sevich, Xiaoke Feng, Liping Du, and Terrin N. Tamati This publication examined how alterations to speaking rate and context affect comprehension and recognition memory in adult cochlear implant users and normal hearing individuals who listened to spectrally degraded speech.
Association of Area Deprivation Index with Cochlear Implant Candidacy and Outcomes by Barak M. Spector, Caroline Christmann, Gabriella Cote, David S. Haynes, Aaron C. Moberly, and Terrin N. Tamati This paper--completed in collaboration with the cochlear implant team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center--investigated how neighborhood-level sociodemographic deprivation is related to speech recognition and quality of life measures prior to and following cochlear implantation surgery.
Nonword Repetition Assessing Auditory and Cognitive Abilities in Adult Cochlear Implant Users by Gizem Babaoglu, Aaron C. Moberly, and Terrin N. Tamati This study looked at phonological processing using a non-word repetition task in adult cochlear implant users and their normal hearing peers. Age-related changes in phonological processing and individual factors that could account for variability were also examined in CI users.
Grant News
We are happy to share the good news that our R01 grant (1R01AG103428) "Measuring Meaningful Outcomes for Adults with Cochlear Implants across the Lifespan" has been funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)! This 5-year project will use mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to characterize age-specific communication and psychosocial outcomes and needs of adults with hearing loss who use cochlear implants. Findings will support development of a meaningful toolbox of outcome measures relevant for defining individual profiles of needs and abilities of adult cochlear implant users, contributing to precision hearing healthcare approaches that maximize the broader health benefits of cochlear implantation across the lifespan.