UW Vocal Function Lab

Congratulations to Carly Spies on her successful MS thesis defense! Yay for the UW Vocal Function Lab! Carly will also be presenting her work at the upcoming ASHA convention in Washington DC in November.

Congratulations to Carly Spies who successfully defended her thesis entitled "The Effects of Age and Background Noise on Intelligibility and Perceived Listening Effort for Tracheoesophageal Speakers" on August 12, 2025! Carly was mentored by Dr. Tanya Eadie.

Congratulations to all of the 2024 UW SPHSC Graduates, including our own Vocal Function Lab members: Erina Chiang, Bailey Jacobson, Kendall Fink, and Dr. Mara Kapsner-Smith!

Congratulations to the most recent 2023 Master of Science graduates in Medical Speech-Language Pathology from the UW Vocal Function Lab - Maddie Knutson, Emily Simmons, and Will Vestal - you do us all proud! Can't wait to see what comes next for all of you!

Excited to share this work with our colleagues from the UW School of Medicine. More foundational work for the CPIB!

Sensitivity of Communicative Participation Item Bank for Measuring Unilateral Vocal Fold Immobility This case series examines differences in patients’ scores on the Communicative Participation Item Bank before and after treatment of unilateral vocal fold immobility and how the scores compare with qualitative self-reports of treatment outcomes.