Susan Nittrouer, Ph.D.
Professor
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About Susan Nittrouer
Susan Nittrouer received a Master’s degree in deaf education from Smith College, and taught for five years before returning to university. She received her PhD in 1985 from the City University of New York in Speech and Hearing Science. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut, she began her research career at Boys Town National Research Hospital investigating how children learn language. Subsequently she was a faculty member at Utah State University and the Ohio State University. Currently she is Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Florida, and heads the Speech Development Laboratory. Her research focuses largely on questions regarding how children learn language, and what goes wrong when they encounter challenges. Children who are of special interest in this work include those with hearing loss and those with dyslexia. Susan’s goal is to develop more effective intervention strategies, and make them more readily available to children facing language-learning difficulties.
Accomplishments
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Alumna of the Year
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Speech, Language, and Hearing Science
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Honors of the Association
American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association
Teaching Profile
Courses Taught
Research Profile
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Areas of Interest
- Impact of hearing loss
- language development
- speech development
Publications
Academic Articles
Presentations
Grants
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Poverty-Related Risk Factors for Auditory and Language Deficits in Children
Active
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- NATL INST OF HLTH NIDCD
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Ana Rodriguez -$480 Robert Young Award for HSP
- Role:
- Other
- Funding:
- ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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Effects of congenital hearing loss on speech motor control: Acoustic and articulatory evidence from 4-to-6-year-olds and adults
- Role:
- Co-Investigator
- Funding:
- HEARING HEALTH FOU
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Spoken Language in Adolescents with Hearing Loss
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- NATL INST OF HLTH NIDCD
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the ontogeny of segmental speech organization
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- NATL INST OF HLTH NIDCD
Education
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PhD
City University of New York Graduate Center
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Master’s Degree
Smith College
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Bachelor’s Degree
West Chester University
Contact Details
- Business:
- (352) 273-5303
- Business:
- snittrouer@phhp.ufl.edu
- Business Mailing:
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PO Box 100174
1225 Center Drive, HPNP Room 2145
GAINESVILLE FL 326103007