25th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium

Stepp lab undergraduate Courtney Dunsmuir ’24 recently presented her summer research conducted through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) at BU’s 25th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, held at Boston University on October 21, 2022.

Courtney’s research explored the differential contributions of auditory and somatosensory feedback control mechanisms of laryngeal and articulatory speech subsystems in persons with Parkinson’s disease.

We would like to congratulate Courtney for her wonderful presentation and continued contribution to research conducted under Stepp Lab! She is also a recipient of Fall UROP 2022 funding.

 

Courtney Dunsmuir and her poster titled “Investigation of Auditory and Somatosensory Feedback in Vocal and Articulatory Motor Control Function for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease”.

Stepp lab members attend 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control!

By Talia Mittelman July 7th, 2017 in News

Stepp lab members Gabriel Cler, Elizabeth Heller Murray, and Dr. Cara Stepp had an awesome trip to 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control (http://www.slp-nijmegen.nl/smc2017/) held in the Netherlands! Gabriel Cler presented a talk titled "Multivariate Analyses for Large Articulography Datasets of Speech and Induced Speech Errors." Elizabether Heller Murray and Dr. Cara Stepp presented a poster titled "Auditory-Motor Impairment as an Underlying Basis of Hyperfunctional Voice Disorders."image3                image2

 

VoiceTx available in the Google Play Store!

By Cara Stepp June 18th, 2017 in News

VoiceTx is a flexible mobile application for the documentation of voice therapy that is now available in the Google Play Store. The app is free and compatible for download on all Android platforms.
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Try it out and tell us what you think at stepplab@gmail.com!

Defne Abur wins a Best Poster award at the Annual Voice Foundation Symposium!

By dabur June 6th, 2017 in News

Congratulations to Dr. Megan MacPherson, Defne Abur, Adrianna Shembel and Dr. Cara Stepp for receiving the second place award for Best Poster at the 46th Annual Voice Foundation Symposium! Their poster was entitled "Autonomic and Acoustic Measures during Speech as a Function of Cognitive Load in Healthy Older Adults".

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Congrats to Tyler Baxter!

By dabur May 26th, 2017 in News

Congratulations to Tyler Baxter who will be starting graduate school at University of New Hampshire's Clinical Nurse Leader program! We will miss you!

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Congratulations to Stepp Lab graduates!

By Cara Stepp May 22nd, 2017 in News

Many congratulations to all of our graduates who received their degrees yesterday! We will miss our clinical recruitment assistants Molly Balseiro, Julia Donovan, and Vaishalie Ramsumair who received the B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing sciences and our research assistants Ashling Lupiani (received the B.A. in Neuroscience) and Kate Girouard (received the B.S. in biomedical engineering).

Dr. Stepp profiled by the ASHA Leader

By Cara Stepp May 18th, 2017 in News

Dr. Stepp was recently profiled in the ASHA Leader on our lab's work on the objective assessment of laryngeal function to improve treatment strategies for hyperfunctional voice disorders. The full text is here.
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Congrats to Senior Project Design Team!

By Meredith Cler May 9th, 2017 in News

BME ME team 2017 - device - croppedCongratulations to our Senior Project Design Team, consisting of Biomedical engineering students Kate Girouard and Victoria Frick and Mechanical engineering student Evi Shiakolas, on completing their project! In collaboration with the Stepp Lab and Dr. Susan Fager at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, the team designed an open-source switch to enable communication for severely paralyzed users who currently have no way to access an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device!  More