Laurie L. Myers-Junker

laurie@junkman.org

Education

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. M.S. degree in Audiology, May 1995, Summa Cum Laude.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA. B.S. degree in Education of the Hearing Impaired, December 1992, Magna Cum Laude.

Clinical Practica

Lester F. Shapiro, M.D., White Oak, PA (May 1995 – November 2000)

• Planned and initiated audiometric practice including purchasing equipment and supplies, designing office space, record keeping and personnel management.
• Performed audiometric evaluations including puretone and speech testing, immitance measurements, hearing aid evaluations, loudness scaling and real ear measures.
• Dispensed hearing aids and managed follow-up care

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (March 1995 - April 1995)

• Performed audiometric evaluations on an adult population including puretone and speech testing, immittance measurements, hearing aid fittings and evaluations.

Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA (January 1995 - March 1995)

• Performed audiometric evaluations on a diverse pediatric population. Evaluations included puretone and speech testing, immittance measurements, otoacoustic emissions, auditory evoked potentials, hearing aid fittings and evaluations including real ear measures.
• Observed cochlear implant surgery and mapping.

Penn State University Speech & Hearing Clinic, University Park, PA (August 1993 - December 1994)

• Performed audiometric evaluations on adult and pediatric populations. Puretone, speech and immittance measurements were a part of a routine evaluation.
• Conducted hearing aid evaluations and fittings including group aural rehabilitation.
  

Related Experience

Filtered Sound Effects Research Project (January 1994 - Present)

• Spectrally filtered sound effects and tested twenty adults’ ability to detect and recoginze the filtered sound effects in quiet and noise. (This study was funded by The United States Army Research Lab at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD).
• Developed a compact disk with Filtered Sound Effects for use in audiological threshold testing with children and difficult to test populations (copyright pending).

Michael and Associates, Inc. (September 1993 - December 1994)

• Tested the performance of hearing protection devices including earplugs, supra-aural and capmounts for the purpose of assigning a Noise Reduction Rating.

Research Assistant for Tomasz Letowski, Ph.D., (November 1993 - December 1994)

• Tested the performance of earplugs, analyzed data and assigned a Noise Reduction Rating for a research project studying speech communication in noise using three different types of earplugs. (This study was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)).
• Collected and analyzed puretone threshold data for a study examining the loudness discomfort levels of various age groups. (This study was funded by a grant from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Andruss Foundation.)
  

  Publications

  Myers, Letowski, Abouchacra, Haas, & Kalb. Detection and recognition of filtered sound effects. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, October 1996.
  
  Letowski, Vaughan, Good, Lynch & Myers. Communication with flat attenuation hearing protectors. Proceedings of the Internoise Conference, 1998, on CD, Christchurch, New Zealand, Nov. 22-25.
  
  Letowski, Immanuel, Musso, Myers. Noise tolerance and successful hearing aid use in elderly individuals. (Working title, in progress).
  
  Letowski, Myers, & Sevec. Comparison of thresholds of puretones, warbletones and narrow band noise. (Working title, in progress).

  References available upon request

References available upon request