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:
Recent Presentations
IHCON 2012 Children with hearing aids show diminished spatial
masking release
CIAP 2011 Emergent literacy skills of kindergarten children with
cochlear implants
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.
This video was created during the summer of 2012. The above video reflects
the combined perspective of research being conducted in our laboratory.