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Cultural diversity and its impact on
health care delivery, especially in rural areas
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Impact
of interdisciplinary educational experiences on attitudes
and knowledge of health professional students
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Factors
that influence willingness of geriatric patients
to participate in end-of-life decision making
Frank
Boutsen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Communication Sciences & Disorders
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Neurogenic disorders of speech - emphasis on prosody/laterality
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Tremor in neurogenic speech disorders
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Effects of deep brain stimulation on speech motor
control
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Role of speech perception in speech production
Sarah
Christman, PhD
Associate Professor
Communication Sciences & Disorders
- Adult neurolinguistics, describing the nature of phonological
dissolution in aphasia
- Nature of phonological acquisition in children
with developmental apraxia of speech
Beth
DeGrace, OTR/L, PhD
Assistant Professor
Rehabilitation Sciences
- Family quality of life - especially those families
who have children with challenging behaviors/autism
- Family occupations - how do families co-create occupations,
how do families spend their time, what do families find
meaningful in what they do
- How to help families/children be included in everyday
settings
Carol
P. Dionne, PT, PhD, OCS, Cert MDT
Assistant Professor
Rehabilitation
Sciences
- Effectiveness of physical therapy management for spinal
conditions
- Genetic influence in the clinical presentation of
lumbar disc disease
- Standards of care for people with Ertl amputation
Blas
Espinoza-Varas, PhD
Associate Professor
Communication Sciences & Disorders
- Effects of auditory training and amplification on speech
recognition by the hearing impaired
- Effects of irrelevant information on frequency discrimination
by older adults
- Hydrocortisone effects on frequency discrimination
by humans
- Auditory processing rate in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired
adults
- Auditory processing deficits in speech and language-impaired
children
David
Garrison, PhD
David Ross Boyd Professor
Rehabilitation Sciences
- Intrinsic and extrinsic neuromodulatory mechanisms
involved with the perception of pain
- Relationships between mental imaging and the actual
motor activity of carrying out the same task
- Comparison of cullular imaging training (CIT) and gross
imaging (GIT) in cognitive performance
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Adaptation and occupational health
in the reentry of women from prison to community
life
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The role of personal narratives
in promoting Occupational Adaptation during life
transitions
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Study of personal narratives of
life, health, illness, and effects on performance
of everyday
activities
Allen
Knehans, PhD
David Ross Boyd Professor
Nutritional
Sciences
Research focuses on the environmental causes of obesity,
particularly childhood obesity. Projects include:
- Influence of changes to the environment, including
the school lunch program and classroom curriculum,
on the incidence of overweight at an elementary school
in the Oklahoma City area
- Impact of pricing of food items on quality and caloric
content of food selections at fast food restaurants
- The relationship of eating/drinking behaviors with
body mass index in college students, especially college
freshmen
LaVae
M. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Communication
Sciences & Disorders
- Information processing in school age children with
Specific Language Impairment, particularly attention
and perceptual issues, and the role of Central Executive
Function in Working Memory
- Efficacious intervention for child language disorders
using technology-based and traditional therapy strategies
- Communicative content in narratives of school age
children with language deficits
- Evidence based practice in speech-language pathology
H.A.
Thubi Kolobe, PT, PhD
Associate Professor
Rehabilitation Sciences
- Early identification of infants at risk for developmental
disabilities
- Infant development Measurement
- Test development
- Early identification of children at risk for developmental
disabilities; cross-cultural validation of childrearing
measures; interaction between biological and environmental
influences on outcome of infants and toddlers with
disabilities
Irene
McEwen, PhD, PT
George Lynn Cross Research Professor
Ann Taylor Chair in Pediatrics and Developmental Disabilities in Physical Therapy
Rehabilitation
Sciences
Children with developmental disabilities and their families,
assistive technology, and distance education. Current
research includes:
- Effects of power mobility on the development of children
14 - 30 months with severe motor impairments
- Developmental of a minimal data set to measure outcomes
for children receiving school-based occupational therapy
and physical therapy
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Contact Information |
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College of Allied Health
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
801 N.E. 13th Street, PO Box 26901, Oklahoma City, OK
73126-0901
Phone: (405) 271-6588, Email: College Contact |
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