Susan Nittrouer is
currently a professor and Director of Research in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Ohio State University Medical Center. She directs two
grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders.
The Ontogeny of Segmental Speech
Organization (OSSO)
Early Development of Children with Hearing Loss (EDCHL).
Her research interests focus on:
- How children acquire the abilities to recognize the phonetic-level structure of their native language and to produce speech with the gestural organization typical of their native language;
- What role the ability to recognize that structure plays in language processing;
- What conditions of childhood support the ontogeny of these skills;
- Precisely how perceptual processing of the speech signal is affected by deleterious conditions such as poverty, frequent otitis media with effusion, and sensorineural hearing loss.