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Contact Information

Education

• PhD, Speech Physiology & Developmental Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• MS, Speech Pathology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
• BS, Speech Pathology & Audiology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

Professional/Academic Experience

• 2016-present, Professor, Audiology & Speech-Language xxxÖ±²¥s, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
• 2011-2016, Associate Professor, Audiology & Speech-Language xxxÖ±²¥s, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
• 2009-2011, Assistant Professor, Audiology & Speech-Language xxxÖ±²¥s, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
• 2001-2008, Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing xxxÖ±²¥s, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• 2000-2001, Assistant Professor, Communication Disorders and xxxÖ±²¥s, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

xxxÖ±²¥/Areas of Interest

• Aspects of motor control for speech and other oromotor behaviors
• Perturbation paradigms to investigate oromotor control in infants, children and adults to altered sensorimotor environments
• Speech and feeding development in infants
• Development of respiratory/laryngeal coordination for speech in children
• Responses to auditory perturbation (altered auditory feedback or acoustic startle) in individuals who stutter
• Articulatory responses to lingual perturbation
• Co-developer of the Actifier II and NTrainer technologies, devices used to assess and provide therapeutic stimulation to premature infants with oromotor feeding deficits

Publications/Creative Works

Book Chapters:

• Barlow SM, Finan DS, Andreatta R, & Boliek CA (2008). Kinematic measurement of the human speech mechanism. In: M. McNeil (ed.) The Clinical Management of Sensorimotor Speech Disorders, 2nct Ed., Theime Medical Publishers.
• Barlow SM, Finan DS, & Park S-Y (2004). Sensorimotor entrainment of respiratory and orofacial systems in humans. In B. Maassen, W. Hulstijn, R. Kent, H.F.M. Peters, P.H.M.M. van Lieshout (Eds.), Speech Motor Control in Normal and Disordered Speech. Oxford University Press.

Articles:

• Meinke DK, Murphy WJ, Finan DS, Lankford JE, Flamme GA, Stewart M, Soendergaard J, & Jerome TW (2014). Auditory risk estimates for youth target shooting. International Journal of Audiology Vol 53: pp S16-S25.
• Meinke D, Finan D, Soendergaard J, Flamme G, Murphy W, Lankford J, & Stewart M {2013}. Impulse noise generated by starter pistols. International Journal of Audiology Vol. 52: pp S9-19.
• Finan DS, Tasko SM (2012). Toward a speech sciences community. Perspectives on Speech xxxÖ±²¥ and Orofacial Disorders, 22(1): 14-20.
• Murphy WJ, Flamme GA, Meinke DK, Sondergaard J, Finan DS, Lankford JE, Khan A, Vernon J, & Stewart M {2012). Measurement of impulse peak insertion loss for four hearing protection devices in field conditions. International Journal of Audiology, 51: S31-S42.
• Finan DS (2010). Get Hip to the Data Acquisition Scene: Principles of Digital Signal Recording. Perspectives on Speech xxxÖ±²¥ and Orofacial Disorders, 20 6-13.
• Pollard R, Finan D, & Ramig PR {2010). Response to Saltuklaroglu, Kalinowski, and Stuart (201O}. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing xxxÖ±²¥,_53: 912 - 916.