Karen A. Doherty

Professor and Chair
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Syracuse University
United States of America

Academician Medical Sciences
Biography

Dr. Karen Doherty specializes in speech perception in the hearing-impaired, psychoacoustics, and amplification, with a specific interest in improving hearing aid fitting protocols for older people. Dr. Doherty is a Gerontology Faculty Affiliate since 2007. Dr. Doherty is also a member of the Aging Studies Institute and the Center for Aging and Policy Studies

Research Intrest

Improving hearing communication for older people, Speech Perception and Psychoacoustics.

List of Publications
Calandruccio L, Doherty KA (2007) Spectral weighting strategies for sentences measured by a correlational method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121: 3827-3836.
Shi LF, Doherty KA, Kordas TM, Pellegrino JT (2007) Short-term and long-term hearing aid benefit and user satisfaction: a comparison between two fitting protocols. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 18: 482-495.
Shi LF, Doherty KA, Zwislocki JJ (2007) Aided loudness growth and satisfaction with everyday loudness perception in compression hearing aid users. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 18: 206-219.

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