Three researchers from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences have received new funding or professional recognition.
Yalian Pei, an assistant professor, has been awarded support from the University’s Lerner Center Faculty Fellows Grant Program. The grant program aims to advance science, policy, or practice in public health communications or population health that could lead to external grant proposals. Pei is serving as co-investigator on a project examining the relationship among health communication discrimination, cognitive communication disorders, and healthcare use among individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). According to the department, findings may help improve understanding of barriers to healthcare access for people with TBI. The research could also provide evidence that changes in health communication can impact quality of care and inform interventions to reduce disparities and improve recovery outcomes for those affected by TBI.
Professor Beth Prieve has been recognized with the Wayne J. Staab Award for her service to the American Auditory Society. Prieve’s work focuses on basic physiological and behavioral processes of the auditory system aimed at improving diagnosis of hearing loss. She founded the Pediatric Audiology Laboratory at Syracuse University in 1990 and continues as director and lead researcher. The lab concentrates on identifying hearing loss in infants and children up to five years old, emphasizing connections between underlying auditory physiological processes and hearing impairment.
Megan Leece, a research speech language pathologist, has received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The award recognizes her accomplishments in student training, clinical presentations, publications, clinical research design, and delivery of high-quality therapy during clinical trials. It is presented to association members who have distinguished themselves within communication sciences and disorders or in speech-language pathology and audiology.
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