Sandra Gordon-Salant is an American audiologist. She is a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is also director of the doctoral program in clinical audiology. Gordon-Salant investigates the effects of aging and hearing loss on auditory processes, as well as signal enhancement devices for hearing-impaired listeners. She is the senior editor of the 2010 book, The Aging Auditory System. Gordon-Salant has served as editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Biography

Gordon-Salant earned her B.S. in Speech Pathology at University at Albany, State University of New York in 1974. She attended graduate school at Northwestern University, where she received her Masters of Arts in Audiology in 1976. In 1977, she was awarded her membership from and Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology from the American Speech and Hearing Association. Gordon-Salant completed her Ph.D. in Audiology at Northwestern University in 1981.[1][2]

In 1981, she joined the faculty of the Hearing and Speech Sciences Department in University of Maryland, College Park, moving from Assistant to Associate to Full Faculty at the institution. She has been a faculty member of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program at the University of Maryland since 1992 as well as a faculty member of the Language Science Center since 2015. She has served as Director of the Doctoral Program in Audiology at UMD since 2002.[1]

Gordon-Salant conducts research on the effects of aging and hearing loss on auditory processes. Over the course of her career, she has published over 90 articles and book chapters. She is the senior editor of the 2010 book, The Aging Auditory System. Gordon-Salant has served as editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.[1]

Awards and honors

In 2009, Gordon-Salant was awarded the James F. Jerger Award for Outstanding Career in Research from the American Academy of Audiology.[3] In 2010, she was elected as a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.[4] The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association awarded her the Al Kawana Award for outstanding contributions to research in 2013,[5] and in 2017 she received the Honors of the Association.[6]

In 2017, Gordon-Salant was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland.[7]

Selected publications

Book

  • Gordon-Salant, Sandra; Frisina, Arthur; Fay, Richard; Popper, eds. (2010). The Aging Auditory System. New York: Springer. ISBN 9781441909947.

Articles

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sandra Gordon-Salant, Professor". Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  2. ↑ Dent, Micheal (Winter 2018). "Ask an Acoustician: Sandra Gordon-Salant" (PDF). Acoustics Today. 14 (4): 56. doi:10.1121/AT.2018.14.4.58. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "Academy Honors". American Academy of Audiology. 8 May 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "Fellows of the Society". Acoustical Society of America. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  5. ↑ "Alfred K. Kawana Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publications". ASHA Wire. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  6. ↑ "Honors of the Association Recipients". ASHA. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Awards". University of Maryland, Office of Faculty Affairs. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
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