Communicative Disorders

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是一个持续的机构赠款，旨在提供研究培训的交流障碍和科学领域的四个博士前学生和两个博士后学员每年。实践学徒培训在三个相互关联的领域提供：（1）言语产生，发展和障碍;（2）语言结构，发展和障碍;（3）听觉感知，神经可塑性和感官辅助。另外两个领域将作为“馈线”专业提供给在三个领域之一工作的博士前学生和博士后学员：（4）听力，语言处理和沟通障碍的认知神经科学方法;和（5）应用于沟通科学和障碍的语言学。言语，语言和听力科学系的12名活跃研究人员将担任参与教师。这些人经常在跨越这些研究领域的项目上进行合作。高级课程包括交流障碍、实验设计、统计学、神经科学、生物学、工程学和语言学。然而，培训计划的主要目的是提供密集的互动研究经验，从而建立成功的独立临床研究者。拟议的计划特别侧重于培训具有基础科学背景的个人，他们希望从事沟通障碍的研究事业，以及具有主要临床背景的个人，他们之前的研究培训很少。博士预科生是从那些在言语，语言和听力科学系，神经科学计划，或语言学计划的研究生课程录取。博士后研究生通过广告和电子招聘方式在全国范围内招募。这两个小组都得到了为期两年的培训资金支持。博士前的学生可以通过个人赠款，奖学金或部门资助至少再资助两年。拟议计划的结构和重点应有助于解决沟通障碍领域活跃研究人员的严重（和日益增长的）短缺问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for a continuing institutional grant designed to provide research training in the area of communication disorders and sciences for four predoctoral students and two postdoctoral trainees per year. Hands-on apprenticeship training is provided in three interrelated areas: (1) Speech Production, Development, and Disorders; (2) Language Structure, Development, and Disorders; and (3) Auditory Perception, Neural Plasticity, and Sensory Aids. Two additional areas will be offered as "feeder" specialties for predoctoral students and postdoctoral trainees working in one of the three areas: (4) Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to Hearing, Language Processing, and Communication Disorders; and (5) Linguistics Applied to Communication Science and Disorders. Twelve active researchers in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences will serve as the participating faculty. These individuals routinely collaborate on projects that cut across these research areas. Advanced coursework is available in communication disorders, experimental design, statistics, neurosciences, biology, engineering, and linguistics. However, the main purpose of the training program is to provide intensive interactive research experience leading toward the establishment of successful independent clinical investigators. The proposed program focuses especially on the training of individuals with a basic science background who wish to pursue research careers in communication disorders, and individuals with a primarily clinical background whose prior research training was minimal. Predoctoral students are selected from those admitted by the Graduate Program in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, the Neurosciences Program, or the Linguistics Program. Postdoctoral trainees are recruited nationally by advertisements and electronic posting. Both groups are supported by training funds for two years. Predoctoral students can be expected to be funded for at least two additional years through individual grants, fellowships, or departmental funding. The structure and emphases of the proposed program should help to address the critical (and growing) shortage of active researchers in the field of communication disorders.