Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Director, Children’s Auditory Research for Educational Success (CARES) Lab
Samantha Gustafson, AuD, PhD, CCC-A (PubMed) (Google Scholar) (Research Gate) has specialized clinical training in pediatrics and in working with children who are deaf/hard of hearing and have other healthcare needs. Dr. Gustafson’s research aims to improve our understanding of communication challenges faced by school-age children with and without hearing loss. We use a combination of subjective, behavioral, and electrophysiologic methods to learn about listening effort, attention allocation, and the effects of intervention (e.g., hearing aids, remote microphones) on communication. Results from our work provide valuable information to audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and teachers of children with hearing loss about environmental and child-specific characteristics that contribute to communication breakdowns.
Gustafson, SJ, Newsome E, Pilling, N, Segura, E. (2024). Survey of Collaboration Supporting Students who are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enae006
Gustafson, SJ, Nelson, L, Silcox, JW. (2023). Effect of auditory distractors on speech recognition and listening effort. Ear & Hearing, 44, 1121-1132.
Gustafson, SJ, Ortiz, C, Nelson, L. (2023). Examining Test-Retest Reliability and the Role of Task Instructions when Measuring Listening Effort Using a Verbal Response Time Paradigm. Seminars in Hearing, 44(2), 140-154.
Gustafson, SJ & Corbin, N. (2021). Pediatric Hearing Loss Guidelines and Consensus Statements – Where Do We Stand? In NM Young & AM Tharpe (Eds.), Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America: Childhood Hearing Loss. 54(6), 1129-1142.
Gustafson, SJ, Camarata, S, Hornsby, BWY, Bess, FH. (2021). Perceived listening difficulty in the classroom, not classroom noise levels, is associated with fatigue in children with and without hearing loss. American Journal of Audiology, 30, 956-967.
Gustafson, SJ, Ricketts, TA, Picou, EM (2021). Individual differences offer insight into clinical recommendations for directional and remote microphone technology use in children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(2), 635-650.
Gustafson, SJ, Billings, CJ, Hornsby, BWY, & Key, AP (2019). Effect of Competing Noise on Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials Elicited by Speech Sounds in 7- to 25-year-old Listeners. Hearing Research, 373, 103-112.
McGarrigle, R, Gustafson, SJ, Hornsby, BWY, & Bess, FH. (2019). Behavioral measures of listening effort in school-age children: Examining the effects of signal-to-noise ratio, hearing loss, and amplification. Ear and Hearing, 40(2), 381-392.
Gustafson, SJ, Key, AP, Hornsby, BWY, Bess, FH. (2018). Fatigue Related to Speech Processing in Children with Hearing Loss: Behavioral, Subjective, and Electrophysiological Measures. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 1000-1011.
Hornsby, BWY, Gustafson, SJ, Lancaster, H, Cho, SJ, Camarata, S, & Bess, FH. (2017). Subjective Fatigue in Children with Hearing Loss Using Self- and Parent- Proxy Reports. American Journal of Audiology, 26(3S), 393-407.
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