We are so excited to announce that our collaboration with Dr. Kristina Scharp from the Family Communication Lab was funded! For this project, we will gather stories from hearing parents of deaf children who chose to implant their children during infancy. We will use this information help us understand how the stories parents tell about their...

This week was research week here at Utah State University. From award galas to author spotlights to ignite—it was an amazing week celebrating our scientific community here on campus. One of the highlights for our lab was Madison Buntrock’s presentation of her undergraduate honor’s thesis work, The effect of talker familiarity on intelligibility in complex...

We are so proud of Maddy Buntrock who learned today that she is the recipient of USU’s 2017 Morse Scholarship. We can’t imagine anyone more deserving than this incredible honors student, service learning scholar, and undergraduate research assistant!

Despite all the construction, the U.S. Capitol was hopping today. I should know, Dr. Preston and I spent the day on Capitol Hill lobbying for the Senate’s passage of HR.1344 to amend the Public Health Service Act and ensure that families of deaf and hard-of-hearing children are presented with ALL of the treatment options for...