About the Author
Nancy Tye-Murray is a research professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and the principal investigator of two RO1 grants from the National Institutes of Health and co-principal investigator of a third. Her research interests include the effects of aging on speech perception, conversational fluency, the efficacy of aural rehabilitation, and the speech production and perception of children who have hearing loss. Tye-Murray founded and ran both the aural rehabilitation program for adult cochlear implant users and the children's speech and language project at the University of Iowa Hospitals. At Central Institute for the Deaf, she taught the graduate level aural rehabilitation class at Washington University, helped assess the psychosocial therapy program for adult cochlear implant users, and for six years served as department head of the research program, which was composed of the Center for the Biology of Hearing and Deafness and the Center of Childhood Deafness and Adult Aural Rehabilitation. She has written six books, including, Let's Converse! A How-To Guide to Expand the Conversational Skills of Children and Teenagers Who Have Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants and Children: A Handbook for Parents, Teachers, and Speech and Hearing Professionals (Alexander Graham Bell Association Publishing). Tye-Murray has published extensively in such peer-reviewed journals as Ear and Hearing, Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Journal of the Academy of American Audiology. She developed the CD-ROM aural rehabilitation series Conversation Made Easy: Speechreading and Communication Training (published by Central Institute for the Deaf). She is the former president of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology and the former chief editor of Volta Review.
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