Current Research Support:
-
1993 - 1996 French Department of Education and Research. Ph.D. Fellowship. "Maturation of cochlear active mechanisms and of the medial olivocochlear system in humans".
-
1998 Medical Research Foundation (Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale). Post-Doctoral Fellowship. “ Maturation of hearing function and Development of Human Auditory Asymmetries”.
-
1999-2001 Human Frontier Science Program ( www.hfsp.org ). “Development of Human Auditory Asymmetries.” Post-Doctoral (Long-Term) Fellowship.
-
2000 Deafness Research Foundation. “Effect of Noise Exposure in NICU on the Development of Hearing in Premature Infants.” PI. The long term goal of this research is to determine the effect of noise exposure in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) on the auditory function in pre-term neonates and whether hearing protections can be a benefit for the development of the auditory system and for decreasing the incidence of hearing loss in this population.
-
2000 National Organization for Hearing Research. “Can Auditory Neuropathy Patients Help us Locate the Source of the Summating Potential in Humans?” PI. The aim of this research project is to define more accurately the source(s) of the summating potential (SP) in humans, by studying subjects having presumed normal and abnormal outer hair cell function.
-
2002 Etymotic Research. “ Electrocochleography in Normal and Hearing Impaired Adults.” PI. The goal of this study is to describe the electocochleography components in adults with various types of hearing loss.
-
2002 Scientific Learning. “Using FastForword to Study the Development of the Auditory Function in SLI Children”. PI. The major goal of this project is to study the responses of the central auditory system (MLRs) in SLI children and investigate any possible improvement of the MLRs following Fast Forword.
-
2003 ICS Medical. “Efferent Suppression of TEOAEs: Does MOCS Function Reflect Language Performance in Children?” PI. The goal of this study is to obtain normative data on MOCS function in children aged 4 to 10 years old and study longitudinally MOCS function in children with SLI after the administration of FastForword.
-
2004 National Organization for Hearing Research . “Efferent Function in Children With Auditory Processing Disorders.” PI. The long term objective of this research is determining to what extent impairment of the medial efferent olivocochlear system (MOCS) causes auditory processing disorders (APDs) in children.
-
2004 ICS Medical. “Efferent Suppression of TEOAEs: Does MOCS Function Reflect Language Performance in Children?” PI.
-
The main goal of this study is to pursue the longitudinal study started in 2003 on children with SLI.
-
2005 GN Otometrics. “Auditory Lateralization in Children With Specific Language Impairment.” PI. The main goal of this study is to investigate the auditory hemispheric lateralization of children with SLI using auditory evoked potentials (AEP) and to investigate the relationships between AEP lateralization, ear advantage and MOCS strength and asymmetries.
-
2006 GN Otometrics. “Cochlear Mechanisms in Auditory Processing Disorders.” PI. The specific aim of this study is to investigate whether the auditory periphery is impaired in children with auditory processing disorders (APDs).
-
2006-2008 Nemours Biomedical Research. Intramural Funding. “Subjective and objective balance disorders in pediatric patients with Chiari Type I malfunction.” Co-PI (PI: Robert O’Reilly). This study is a prospective, non-randomized evaluation of the subjective and objective vestibular/balance disorders in patients with Chiari Type I malformation whose symptoms have justified surgical decompression.
-
2006-2008 Nemours Biomedical Research. Intramural Funding. “Assessment of hearing loss in children undergoing platinum based chemotherapy.” Co-PI. (PI: Robert O’Reilly). This is a prospective pilot study to evaluate the time course and degree of ototoxicity of platinum based chemotherapy in pediatric patients.
