Kristina DeRoy Milvae is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences.  She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Maryland College Park (NIH NIDCD T32-DC000046, K01-DC018064).  She previously earned Au.D. and Ph.D. degrees in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University (NIH NIDCD T32-000030), and she earned a B.S. degree in Communication Disorders at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  

Dr. Milvae is exploring ways to understand and to improve speech-in-noise perception and listening effort for listeners with hearing loss.  She studies binaural hearing and listening effort in listeners with normal hearing and with cochlear implants.  She is also working to develop optimized measures of listening effort in individuals with clinically normal hearing reporting hearing difficulties.

For a list of all publications, see  Google Scholar profile.

• CDS 1 484/529: Aural Rehabilitation