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Pediatric Auditory Research Laboratory
Thierry Morlet, PhD
Thierry Morlet, PhD is an Associate Professor with a broad background in human auditory and vestibular physiology. He has extensively studied otoacoustic emissions, efferent auditory pathways and event-related potentials in the normally functioning and diseased auditory systems of children and adults. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 articles on the development of hearing, pediatric hearing loss, vestibular and balance disorders, auditory processing disorders, auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder and inner ear malformations and is a co-editor of the 鈥淢anual of Pediatric Balance Disorders鈥�.
Graduate Assistants:
Ceilidh Nichols, B.S.
Ceilidh is a second-year Doctor of Audiology and Doctor of Philosophy student completing her research in the PARL. She is investigating vestibular function in children with and without hearing loss using rotary chair testing, cVEMP, oVEMP, and vHIT, with additional measures of middle-ear status and auditory function. Her research aims to characterize vestibular function across development and examine changes in vestibular function over time and following rehabilitation.
Sydney Elaina Rubenstein, B.S.
Elaina is a first-year doctor of audiology student and graduate assistant in the PARL. She recently graduated from the University of Mississippi, where she earned a B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders with double minors in Early Childhood Education and American Sign Language. Elaina has a strong interest in pediatric audiology and hopes to pursue a career providing audiological care to the pediatric population.
PhD Students:
Kyleigh Jackson, B.A.
Kyleigh Jackson is a fifth-year dual doctor of audiology student and Ph.D candidate. Her work focuses on dichotic listening, a specific area of auditory processing, in school-aged children. She is particularly interested in the relationship between dichotic listening and speech perception and production. Her research interests also include exploring objective measures that may contribute to a better understanding of auditory processing deficits.
Ceilidh Nichols, B.S.
Ceilidh is a second-year Doctor of Audiology and Doctor of Philosophy student completing her research in the PARL. She is investigating vestibular function in children with and without hearing loss using rotary chair testing, cVEMP, oVEMP, and vHIT, with additional measures of middle-ear status and auditory function. Her research aims to characterize vestibular function across development and examine changes in vestibular function over time and following rehabilitation.
Student Researchers:
Eden Landry, B.S.
Eden is a fourth-year doctor of audiology student at Manning Family Children鈥檚 in New Orleans, LA for her externship. She is completing her capstone research project in the PARL. She is measuring behavioral responses in speech in noise compared to Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials (CAEPs) in various signal to noise ratios for young, typically hearing adults. She hopes to gain a better understanding of speech in noise processing at the cortical level and estimating behavioral responses with those results.
Emma Kate Thompson, B.A.
Emma Kate is a fourth-year doctor of audiology student at Nemours Children鈥檚 Health in Orlando, FL for her externship. She is completing her capstone research project in the PARL. She is utilizing CAEPs to measure residual hearing in unilateral and bilateral cochlear nerve deficiency, a form of Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD), for the purpose of implementing individualized treatment plans within the pediatric population.
Landry Wirth, B.S.
Landry Wirth is a third-year doctor of audiology student completing her capstone research project in the PARL. She is measuring CAEPs and Otoacoustic Emission Suppression in children with receptive language disorders to determine how their auditory systems respond to sound at the ear and brain level, particularly in noisy listening conditions. This will allow her to examine if children with receptive language disorders show differences in auditory processing, despite having normal hearing sensitivity on standard hearing tests.
Past Members
Kelsey McDermott, B.S.
Bailey Reeves, B.A.
Parks Flynt, B.S.
Lab Affiliates:
- Dr. Celine Richard, MD, PhD, PD, MBA
- Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Le Bonheur Children鈥檚 Hospital
- St. Jude Research Hospital