Clear Communication Group
People
Faculty
Jean C. Krause, PhD
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Students
Nick Hansen
Research Assistant
Project: Reliability of Quantitative Measures of American Sign Language Interpreter
Accuracy
Mackenzie Wagoner
Research Assistant
Project: American Sign Language Interpreter Lag Time
Michelle Welever
Research Assistant
Project: Reliability of Quantitative Measures of American Sign Language Interpreter
Accuracy
ALUMNI
Julio Castro
Research Assistant (2021-2022)
Project: Reliability of Quantitative Measures of American Sign Language Interpreter
Accuracy
Cedric Clay
Research Assistant (2021-2022)
Project: Reliability of Quantitative Measures of American Sign Language Interpreter
Accuracy
Ashley Moore
Audiology Doctoral Project (2019-2022): Parameters affecting eSRT in cochlear implant
users and implications for cochlear implant programming
Stephanie Pena
Audiology Doctoral Project (2018-2021): Increasing Accessibility of Hearing Health
Care Services to Students at the University of South Florida
2016-2020
Alex Barnard
Audiology Doctoral Project (2017-2020): Durational cues to word boundaries in clear
speech at normal rates
Jane Smart
Doctoral Dissertation (2018-2019): Lexical Influence in Phoneme Perception with Non-degraded
and Spectrally-degraded Speech
Rebecca Sherman
Audiology Doctoral Project (2016-2019): Needs of parents when children are diagnosed
with hearing loss
2011-2015
Caleb Brandenburg
Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2014-2015): Feasibility of an Alternative Visual-Manual
Cueing System
Hailee Stewart
Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2014-2015): Transliterator Speechreadability - Signing
Exact English
Katie Turner
Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2013-2014): Supporting Cued Speech Learners
Andy Hague
Audiology Doctoral Project (2010-2013): Transliterator Intelligibility - Signing Exact
English
Amanda Kluzynski
Audiology Doctoral Project (2010-2013): Transliterator Intelligibility - Conceptually
Accurate Signed English
2006-2010
Ari Hansen
Audiology Doctoral Project (2008-2010): Clear Speech Benefit - Relationship to Gap
Detection Ability
Abby Bennett
Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2009-2010): Transliterator Speechreadability - Cued Speech
Ann Siapno
Audiology Doctoral Project (2008-2009): Intelligibility of Clear Speech - Older, Hearing
Impaired Listeners
Graduate Assistant (2006)
Other projects included the perception of clear speech by young, normal hearing listeners
in difficult listening environments (e.g. reverberation)
Karyl Hobbs
Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2008-2009)
Acculturation of Deaf Children - Role of Mothers
Kathy Pelley
Masters thesis (2007-2008): Transliterator Intelligibility - Cued Speech
Research Assistant (2005-2007)
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2006): Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech
Other projects included lag time analysis of Cued Speech transliterators
Morgan Tessler
Research Assistant (2007-2008)
Project: Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2005, co-authored with Dana Husaim): Transliterator Accuracy
- Cued Speech
Kendall Tope
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2008)
Project: Speech Intelligibility of Difficult Academic Materials - Monolingual vs.
Bilingual Listeners
Jane Smart
Masters thesis (2006-2007)
Project: Psychometric functions of clear and conversational speech for young normal
hearing listeners in noise
Billie Jo Shaw
Masters thesis (2005-2006)
Project: Intelligibility of clear speech at normal rates for older, hearing-impaired
adults
Jessica Lindsay
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2006)
Project: Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech
2001-2005
Dana Husaim
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2005)
Project: Transliterator Accuracy - Cued Speech (thesis co-authored with Morgan Tessler)
Stacy Kile
Undergraduate Honors thesis (2005)
Project: Investigation of methods for evaluating accuracy of Conceptually Accurate
Signed English transliterators
Athina Panagiotopoulos
Masters thesis (2004-2005)
Project: Intelligibility of clear speech at normal rates for older, normal hearing
adults
Wendy Park
Graduate Assistant (2003-2005)
Projects included the perception of clear speech by young, normal hearing listeners
and lag time analysis of Cued Speech transliterators
Friends and Associates
Louis D. Braida - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Judy Kegl, PhD - University of Southern Maine
Brenda Schick, PhD - University of Colorado at Boulder
Steven Surrency, PhD - Communication Sciences and Disorders at USF