News
Stepp lab undergraduates present at the 20th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
On October 13th, Stepp lab undergraduates Nicole Enos, Jake Noordzij, and Nadia Oleinik presented their summer research conducted through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) at BU's undergraduate research symposium.
Nicole Enos presenting a poster entitled "Comparing visual-analog-scale ratings and orthographic transcription estimates of intelligibility in naive listeners."
Jake Noordzij presenting a poster entitled "Effects of pitch and speech rate on the intelligibility, communication efficiency, and perceived naturalness of synthetic speech in augmentative and alternative communication."
Nadia Oleinik presenting a poster entitled "Hearing Threshold and the Acoustic Stapedial Reflex."
Defne Abur selected as NIH T32 Predoctoral Trainee
Defne Abur has been selected as a predoctoral trainee for a Boston University Institutional Training Grant (T32) from the NIH/NIDCD.
Nicole Enos wins UROP Outstanding Student Researcher Award!
Nicole Enos '19 received an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Outstanding Student Researcher Award for her work in the Stepp Lab. Congratulations Nicole!!
Version 1 automated RFF algorithms available for download!
Dr. Lien's final dissertation study has been accepted for publication in the Annals of Otology, Laryngology, and Rhinology:
Lien Y.S., Heller Murray E.S., Calabrese C., Michener C.M., Van Stan J., Mehta D.D., Hillman R.E., Noordzij J.P., Stepp C.E. “Validation of an algorithm for semi-automated estimation of relative fundamental frequency”, Annals of Otology, Laryngology, and Rhinology, In Press.
Our first version of publicly available automated algorithms to estimate relative fundamental frequency (RFF) are now available! You can read more about RFF, download the scripts, and get directions on their use here.
Stepp lab members attend 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control!
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/
VoiceTx available in the Google Play Store!
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.
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!
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".
Congrats to Tyler Baxter!
Congratulations to Tyler Baxter who will be starting graduate school at University of New Hampshire's Clinical Nurse Leader program! We will miss you!
Congratulations to Stepp Lab graduates!
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
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.
