Lauren Calandruccio, PhD, CCC-A, joined the Department of Psychological Sciences in the Fall of 2015. Her research interests include auditory perception for listeners with normal hearing and listeners with hearing loss, including listeners who speak English as a second language. Dr. Calandruccio is clinically trained as an Audiologist and is the Principal Investigator of the SpAR Lab. Her research program combines her clinical and scientific training. To learn more about her research, please visit the Speech and Auditory Research Laboratory’s website.
She started her career in audiology as an undergrad at Indiana University – Bloomington in the lab of Dr. Larry Humes. She worked as a clinical audiologist at Riley Hospital for Children – Indianapolis Medical Center while completing her clinical fellowship year. She returned to graduate school at Syracuse University, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2007, while working with Dr. Karen Doherty and Dr. Laurel Carney. After leaving Syracuse, Lauren completed postdoctoral training at Northwestern University where she worked with Dr. Sumitrajit Dhar (Communication Sciences and Disorders) and Dr. Ann Bradlow (Linguistics). She has proudly served on the Faculty of Queens College of the City University of New York (Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders) and the Faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Department of Allied Health Sciences, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences). She joined the Faculty of Case Western Reserve University in the Fall of 2015.
Research Information
Research Interests
Lauren Calandruccio, Ph.D., is the Principal Investigator of the SpAR Lab. The SpAR Lab is located in the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center – a state of the art, LEED Silver Certified building. Research in the SpAR Lab focuses on studying how people are able to understand speech in noisy environments. In particular, they are interested in studying differences between people with normal hearing and people with hearing loss and their ability to understand speech in noise. They are also interested in helping to build an evidence base for clinical practice that focuses on people who have hearing loss and do not speak English as their native language. The main objective of the lab is to improve the quality of life for those with auditory communication difficulties through improved clinical assessments and interventions.