The New Investigators Research Grant supports research activities of new investigators who have earned their doctorate degree within the past five years.
2025
Awarded $10,000 each
- Nina Benway
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- The University of Maryland
- Interpretable and Available Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion
- Ankita Bhutada
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Northwestern University
- Accelerating Parkinson's Disease Clinical Research in Swallowing and Motor Speech Disorders: A Novel Large-Language Model-Based Solution for Optimizing Clinical Trials Efficiency
- Kaityn Contino
- Postdoctoral Associate
- Boston University
- The Art of Planning: The Role of Motor Planning in the Development of Executive Function and Language in Toddlers
Support provided by the Lois Bloom Language Development Research Fund
- Kimberly Crespo
- Assistant Professor
- Boston University
- Learning While Sleeping: Statistical Word Learning and Consolidation in Children with and without Development Language Disorder
- Raghav Jha
- Assistant Professor
- The University of Memphis
- Effects of Age on the Frequency Tuning of Bone-Conduction Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials
- Hana Kim
- Assistant Professor
- University of South Florida
- Predicting Dementia from Written Language: A Bayesian Model Integrating Linguistic and Graphomotor Features in Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Emily Kimball
- Assistant Professor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Cannabinoid Effects in the Larynx and Upper Airway: Human Tissue Exploration and Cell Culture Modeling
- Marc Maffei
- Assistant Professor
- The University of Rhode Island
- Speech Kinematics and Language Skills in Late Talkers
- Lauramarie Pope
- Assistant Professor
- Auburn University
- Training Caregivers to Support the Language and Communication of Their Young Children on the Autism Spectrum with Minimal Speech: A Naturalistic Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention
Support provided by the Lois Bloom Language Development Research Fund
- Elizabeth Roepke
- Assistant Professor
- Saint Louis University
- Auditory and Phonological Processing in Children with Speech Sound Disorders
Support provided by the Dr. Lawrence D. Shriberg Memorial Fund
- Fenqi Wang
- Research Fellow
- Mayo Clinic
- Developing Phonet for Speech Articulation Assessment in Apraxia of Speech
- Kathryn Wiseman
- Research Scientist I
- Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Device Candidacy Decision Making for Parents of Children who are Borderline Candidates
- Julia Yi
- Assistant Professor
- MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Exploring the Shift in Individualized Education Program Classifications from Speech/Language Impairment to Specific Learning Disability in Mid-Elementary School: A Mixed Methods Study
2024
Awarded $10,000 each
- Haley Dresang
- Assistant Professor
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Artificial Intelligence Advancement of Event Knowledge Measures for Clinical Aphasiology
- Alexander Foote
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- University of California, San Diego
- A Causal Link Between Laryngeal Sensorimotor Neuropathy in Post-Viral Influenza Infection
- Nichole Houle
- Assistant Professor
- Binghamton University
- Identifying the Relationship Between Vocal Effort and Vocal Gender Congruence in Transfeminine People
- Heather Kabakoff
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- New York University
- Voice in Motion: Predicting Changes in Voice and Speech Following Focused Ultrasound Surgery for Essential Tremor
- Renee King
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Novel Preclinical Mouse and Cell Culture Models of Laryngeal Papillomavirus-Associated Disease
- Natalie Pak
- Assistant Professor
- University of South Florida
- Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) en Español Para Autismo Using a Rapid Coaching Approach
- Support provided by Lois Bloom Language Development Research Fund
- Erik Petersen
- Postdoctoral Scholar Fellow
- University of Washington
- A Bayesian Adaptive Procedure for Efficient Auditory Brainstem Response Threshold Estimation
- Willem van Boxtel
- Assistant Professor
- Louisiana State University
- Predictive Processing in Aphasia: Assessment Implications from Online Eye Tracking and Memory Interference
- Mary Claire Wofford
- Assistant Professor
- Western Carolina University
- En las Afueras: Early Childhood Speech and Language Services for Spanish-Speaking Families in Rural Spaces
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
View New Investigators Research Grant recipients before 2021 [PDF].