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• Assessment of developmental changes in chidren's ability to process complex sounds
• Central auditory processing disorders
• Effects of noise on academic skills and achievement

• Speech perception
• Auditory changes in normal aging
• Noise-induced hearing loss
• Hearing conservation

• Adult aural rehabilitation
• Goal attainment scaling
• Perceived self-efficacy
• Barriers and facilitators to hearing assistive technology use
• Stigma and disclosure of hearing loss
• Workplace accessibility
• Universal design principles for hearing

• Spatial and binaural hearing by hearing impaired and normally hearing listeners
• Effects of cochlear implant processing strategies on spatial hearing
• Active sound localization via listener head movements
• Application of virtual auditory space techniques to audiological research
• Processing and representation of auditory space in the mammalian auditory system

• Clinical audiology
• Diagnostics in adults and children
• Amplification in adults and children

• Speech and audio processing
• Hearing aids
• Electroacoustic measures
• Sound quality estimation
• Handheld devices

• Auditory feedback and speech production
• Physiological and behavioural measurement of auditory function and temporal modulation transfer functions

• Hearing assessment
• Treatment and management of hearing and hearing disorders
• Adult group aural rehabilitation
• Ontario Infant Hearing Program

• Pediatric amplification
• Evaluation of signal processing in hearing aids
• Real ear measurement
• Infant hearing programs

• Adult and geriatric hearing assessment and hearing loss remediation
• Aural rehabilitation
• Acclimatization with amplification

• Better understanding of the underlying mechanisms and etiology of auditory system dysfunction, by characterizing the auditory phenotype using physiological measurements of auditory system dysfunction and genotype-phenotype correlations.

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• Speech and oral motor performance in neurological disease
• Parkinson's disease, spasmodic dysphonia, apraxia, oral dystonia, essential tremor
• Speech acoustics, speech physiology, auditory feedback

• Interaction between language and memory in typical and atypical development
• Role of memory in communication disorders

• Neural and genetic markers of language ability and disability in children
• Overlap between developmental disorders such as language impairment and autism spectrum disorders

• Voice and voice disorders
• Communication disorders associated with head and neck cancer
• Laryngeal physiology and pathophysiology
• Disorders of voice and speech related to head and neck cancers adn laryngectomy
• Perceptual psychophysics and measurement of voice and voice quality
• Speech and voice acoustics
• Measurement of quality of life associated with voice disorders and cancer

• Adults with motor speech disorders
• Children with resonance disorders
• Emphasis on communicative participation, speech perception and speech intelligibility

• Voice and resonance disorders in children and adults
• Motor speech disorders in adults
• Voice and Parkinson's disease

• Children's Language and Literacy Acquisition
• Children's Language Disorders
• Participation of children with disabilities
• Personal and Environmental Factors Affecting Participation
• Measuring Outcomes of Children’s Intervention Services

• Swallowing neural control
• Swallowing rehabilitation
• Swallowing impairment in stroke and in head and neck cancer

• Neurogenic and related adult speech and language disorders
• School age to adult fluency disorders
• Augmentative and alternative communication
• Speech and Language in First Nations Communities
• Use of international placements to support clinical and professional development

• Adult neurogenic language
• Cognitive communication disorders including dementia, aphasia, right hemisphere brain damage and tramautic brain injury

• Language acquisition in typical and atypical children
• Pragmatics of language
• Cognitive and social correlates of language
• Interdisciplinary research based on the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health)

• Swallowing impairments in stroke
• Swallowing rehabilitation
• Speech, swallowing and quality of life in head and neck cancer
• Functional outcome measurement

• Child language
• Assessment and intervention
• Development of novel intervention programs
• Facilitation of oral language
• Literacy and social communication across the entire age span for children with disordered or weak language skills
• Promotion of best practices in speech-language pathology