EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Audiology 8/99-present
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Assistant Professor of Audiology 9/96-6/99
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Audiologist 5/94-7/96
Kennedy-Krieger Institute
707 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Audiologist 10/93-5/94
Drs. Damiano and King
7500 Hanover Parkway, Suite 207
Greenbelt, MD 20770
Clinical Fellow 9/92-1/94
University of Maryland
Speech & Hearing Clinic
Part-time Faculty 9/92-5/93
Dept. of Communication Sciences
University of the District of Columbia
Audiology Consultant 8/91-10/91
Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
Teaching/Research Assistant 9/89-6/92
Hearing & Speech Department
University of Maryland
EXTERNAL FUNDING
Phillips, S.L. (2002). Spectral Cue Use in Listeners with Poor Word Recognition. NIDCD R03.
PRESENTATIONS
Phillips, J., Phillips, S.L. (2004). Hearing acuity in undergraduate music students. Poster presentation at the National Hearing Conservation Association conference, Seattle, Washington.
Phillips, J., Phillips, S.L. (2004). Hearing acuity in undergraduate music students. Poster presentation at the American Academy of Audiology conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Phillips, S.L. (2001). Effects of speech rate manipulation on sentence recognition in older listeners with hearing loss and poor word recognition. Poster presentation at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology conference, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Phillips, S.L., (2000). Acoustic reflex abnormalities and the auditory continuous performance test (ACPT). Poster presentation at the American Academy of Audiology conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Phillips, S.L. (1998). Invited panelist on Audiologic Treatment in the Rare Diseases. Academy of Dispensing Audiologists, Monterey, California.
Phillips, S.L. (1998). Frequency resolution in elderly listeners with good and poor word recognition. Poster presentation at the American Academy of Audiology Conference, Los Angeles, California.
Phillips, S.L. (1997). Genetics and hearing loss. Presented at the Wisconsin Speech and Hearing Association Fall Audiology Update, Door County, Wisconsin.
Phillips, S., Gordon-Salant, S., Fitzgibbons, P.J., and Yeni-Komshian, G. (1996). Frequency and temporal resolution in elderly listeners with good and poor word recognition. Poster presentation at the conference on Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, College Park, Maryland.
Phillips, S. and Gordon-Salant, S. (1993) Duration discrimination ablities in young and elderly normal-hearing listeners. Presented at the American Academy of Audiology Conference, Student Research Forum, Phoenix, Arizona.
Phillips, S., Sill, A., Prenger, V., Stick, M., Arnos, K. and Boughman, J. (1993) Audiometric and familial characteristics of an adult hearing-impaired population. Poster presentation at the American Academy of Audiology Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
Sill, A., Prenger, V., Stick, M., Phillips, S., Arnos, K. and Boughman, J. (1992) A genetic study of hearing loss in an adult population. Poster presentation at the American Human Genetics Society Conference, San Francisco, California.
PUBLICATIONS
Phillips, S.L. (in review). Mentoring of graduate students. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.
Phillips, S.L., Bashford, J., Craig, C., Randolph, P. (in review). Speech rate manipulation and sentence recognition in older listeners. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology.
Tucker, D.A., Phillips, S.L., Ruth, R.A., Clayton, W.A., Royster, E., Todd, A.D. (in print). The effect of silence on tinnitus perception. Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Phillips, S.L., Gordon-Salant, S., Fitzgibbons, P.J., Yeni-Komshian, G.H. (2000). Frequency and temporal resolution in elderly listeners with good and poor word recognition. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 43(1), 217-228.
Phillips, S. L., Gordon-Salant, S., Fitzgibbons, P. J., Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1994). Auditory duration discrimination in young and elderly listeners with normal hearing. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 5 (3), 210-215.
Sill, A. M., Stick, M. J., Prenger, V. L., Phillips, S. L., Boughman, J. A. and Arnos, K. S. (1994). A genetic epidemiologic study of hearing loss in an adult population. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 54, 149-153.
Phillips, S. L., Sill, A. M., Stick, M. J., Prenger, V. L., Boughman, J. A., and Arnos, K. S. (1994). "It seems that everyone in my family loses their hearing:" Results of a study of heredity factors. SHHH Journal, July/August, 14-16.
Phillips, S. L. (1995). Using the telephone. Exceptional Parent
25(5), 55-57.
AWARDS, HONORS
University of Maryland Graduate Fellowships 1987-88, 1988-89
American Academy of Audiology Student Research Forum 1993, 1996
UWO Faculty Research Grant 1997, 1998
UWO Permanent Property Grants 1996, 1997
HHP Teaching Excellence Award 2004
EDUCATION
University of Maryland Ph.D. 1996
Recipient, UM Fellowships
Major: Audiology
Minors: Genetics, Neuropsychology
Western Maryland College M.Ed. 1982
Major: Education of the Deaf
Avila College B.A. Education 1975
Major: Elem. Ed./Montessori