Don Finan, PhD
Associate Professor
Office: Gunter 1480
Phone: 970.351.1897
Fax: 970.351.2974
donald.finan@unco.edu
Education
- PhD, Speech Physiology & Developmental Neuroscience, Indiana University
- MS, Speech Pathology, Eastern Illinois University
- BS, Speech Pathology & Audiology, Eastern Illinois University
Teaching
- Speech science
- Voice production and disorders
- Neuroscience of communication
- Interested in developing new approaches to teaching courses in the speech and hearing sciences
Research Interests
- 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
Tamara Nickelson