The Speech and Auditory Research Lab (SpARLab) is located in the —a state-of-the-art, —and led by Lauren Calandruccio, professor in the at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
Research in the SpARLab focuses on studying how people are able to understand speech in noisy environments. In particular, we are interested in studying the differences between people with normal hearing and people with hearing loss and their ability to understand speech in noise. We are also interested in helping to build an evidence base for clinical practice that focuses on people who have hearing loss and do not speak English as their native or only language. The main objective of our lab is to improve the quality of life for those with auditory communication difficulties through improved clinical assessments and interventions.
About the Principal Investigator
Lauren Calandruccio is the principal investigator of the SpARLab. She started her career in audiology as an undergrad at in the lab of . She worked as a clinical audiologist at , Indianapolis Medical Center while completing her clinical fellowship year. She returned to graduate school at , where she earned her PhD in 2007, while working with and .
After leaving Syracuse, Lauren completed postdoctoral training at Northwestern University where she worked with (Communication Sciences and Disorders) and (Linguistics). She has proudly served on the faculty of Queens College of the City University of New York () and the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Department of Allied Health Sciences, ). She joined the faculty at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in the fall of 2015 where she now holds the Louis D. Beaumont University Professor chair.