Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences PhD student Nicole Corbin received the 2018 Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD) PhD scholarship. The scholarship provides $20,000, to support the completion of the PhD program. Corbin’s dissertation project is titled “Spatial Hearing and Functional Auditory Skills in Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss.” She is measuring the effects of unilateral hearing loss on children’s ability to benefit from
target-masker spatial separation for speech-on-speech recognition, as well as their ability to localize sound sources in space. The association between these abilities and children’s functional communication skills will be evaluated. Results will have implications for the clinical assessment and treatment of pediatric unilateral hearing loss.