10/17/2025
Ongoing student research projects for the 2025-2026 academic school year:
AuD CAPSTONE PROJECTS
"Exploring the Impact of Diabetes on Hearing and Balance: A Community-Based Educational Intervention
Hallee Barnett, BS
"Expectations of and Satisfaction with Amplification for Hearing Aid Wearers with Low Incomes"
Kaylee Boyer, BS
'Interprofessional Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs: How Are We Doing?"
Emma Brown, BS
Mentor Panel: Christi Barbee, AuD; Carole E Johnson, PhD, AuD; and Jennifer Tetnowski, PhD
"Negative Attitudes Toward Preteen Hearing Aid Wearers: Does Knowledge Help?"
Jade Durkee, BS
"Does Hearing and Vision Impairment Increase the Risk for Cognitive Decline?: A Big Data Study"
Sophia Matveeva, BS
"Developing a Telehealth Program in a Community Hearing Aid Bank"
Michelle Nguyen, BS
Capstone Mentors: Morgan Dyer, AuD, and Carole E Johnson, PhD, AuD
"Pediatric Audiologists' Knowledge of, Experiences with, and Strategies for Counseling Pre-Teen Children on the 'Hearing Aid Effect' "
Merrellan Sawyer, BS
"A Diabetes Care Track in a Community Hearing Aid Bank for Patients with Low Incomes"
Kennedy Shelton, BS
"People with Diabetes: Their Knowledge of, Experiences with, and Attitudes Toward the Impact of their Disease on Hearing and Balance"
Makenzie Yates-Martinez, BS
SENIOR HONORS THESIS
"A Survey of Parents with Children having Autism Spectrum Disorder: What They Wish Pediatricians and Family Physicians Knew"
Mentor: Carole E Johnson, PhD, AuD
Supporting Committee:
Daiquirie Crumrine, PhD
Michelle DeBerry, EdD
Beth Lane, MS
HERO LAB UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCE
"Teachers' Knowledge of, Experiences with, and Attitudes Toward Students with Hearing Loss their Classrooms: A Rural Perspective"
Kendall Jenke, Alli Muntz, & Kami Pineda
"Readiness of Public Performance Venues to Accommodate People with Hearing Loss"
Lauren Dietert, Rheagen Nevins, Rena Shawareb, & Izzi Waters
