YING-CHIAO TSAO, Ph.D./CCC-SLP

 

Assistant Professor, California State University-Fullerton

                                                                                                Email: ytsao@fullerton.edu

                                                                Home Page: http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/ytsao

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

 

Ph.D.      University of Wisconsin-Madison   (Communicative Disorders/Speech-Language Pathology)           1995

M.S.        Ohio State University                          (Speech and Hearing Sciences)                                                         1988

B.S.         Fu-Jen University                                (Educational & Counseling Psychology)                                        1981

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

 

Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Member of California Speech-Language-Hearing Association (CSLHA)

Member of National Stuttering Association (NSA) and International Stuttering Foundation (ISF)

Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

License in Speech-Language Pathology from California, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

 

 

 

HIGHTLIGHTS OF PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

 

CLINICAL, TEACHING, AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

1.        Speech Sciences: Acoustical and aerodynamic measures and analyses of voice and speech

2.        Anatomy and physiology: Neuroanatomy in neurogenic communication disorders

3.        Motor Speech Control and Its Disorders: Assessment and treatment/management

4.        Swallowing Disorders: Dysphagia assessment and treatment/management

5.        Fluency Disorders: Early intervention and advanced stuttering treatment

6.        Voice Disorders: Diagnosis and treatment

7.        Post-laryngectomy Rehabilitation: Esophageal speech, artificial larynx, tracheoesophageal puncture

8.        Clinical Procedures and Methods: Interview/assessment /treatment strategies and counseling skills

9.        Computer Applications: Teaching/research/clinical assessment and treatment applications

10.     Multicultural Issues: Clinical considerations on assessment and treatment strategies

 

 

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

 

1.        2000 ($3,500), University Junior/Senior Faculty Grant-- led to a manuscript near-to-completion

2.        1999 ($2,000), University Faculty-Student Scholarly Award-- led to a paper accepted for presentation at the ASHA 2000 Convention

3.        1999 ($ 500), University Untenured Track Faculty Grant-- led to a manuscript near-to-completion

4.        1998 ($23,000), University Foundation Grant-- allowed to furnish Speech Science Laboratory with various clinical instruments (e.g., stroboscopy and swallowing station, EMG, computer hardware and software, etc.)

5.        1997 ($5,000), Departmental Fund-- allowed to purchase a portable mini sound-booth

6.        1997 ($1,800), Summer Research Award-- led to a manuscript near-to-completion

7.        1996, Spring, Speech Science Lab Open House-- directed and organized students' instrumentation demonstrations and posters presentations

8.        1996 ($5,875), Summer Research Award- led to a publication in JSLHR, Aug. 1997

9.        1995 ($1,700), Mini-Grant (a Research Services Council Award)- led to a presentation at the ASHA 1996 Convention

10.     1995 ($25,000), Start-up fund- allowed to set up a state-of-art Speech Science Laboratory

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Assistant Professor

Speech Communication, California State University-Fullerton, Fullerton, California. Aug. 1999 - present.

 

·         Teaching undergraduate courses and graduate seminars

·         Supervising graduate student clinicians at the University Speech and Hearing Clinic

·         Conducting research and supervising undergraduate and graduate student projects

·         Serving on graduate committees

·         Serving as a university mentor to minority students

 

Assistant Professor           

Special Education/Communication Disorders, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska.  Aug. 1995 - Dec.1999.

 

·         Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses

·         Establishing and furnishing speech science laboratory

·         Conducting research and serving on Master's theses committee

·         Assisting in developing research program and curriculum (e.g., dysphagia)

·         Serving on various committees (e.g., culture diversity curriculum, minority faculty recruitment, world affairs conference, etc.)

 

Guest Lecturer/Teaching Assistant              

Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sept. 1992 - 1994.

 

·         Delivering lectures in both undergraduate (Speech Acoustics and Perception) and graduate (Motor Speech Disorders) courses

·         Conducting laboratories for Speech Acoustics and Perception class

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Fellow

Laryngeal Physiology Laboratory, Otolaryngology Dept., Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. Nov. 1997 – Feb. 1998.

 

·      Working on a project entitled "Laryngeal reaction time test as a potential diagnostic tool for Alzheimer' Disease"

·      Assisting in designing and modifying experiment protocol, and analyzing data

Clinical Researcher

Swallow Laboratory, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Dec. 1997-Aug. 1998.

 

·         Reading videofluorgraphies

·         Assisting modified barium study

 

Project Assistant

Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison. May 1990 – Dec. 1994.

 

·          Conducting experiments and collecting data on acoustic projects

·          Measuring (acoustical analysis) and analyzing data

 

 

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

 

Speech/Language Pathologist

RehabCare Group (Therapeutic Systems, LTD.), Libertyville, Illinois, Feb. 1998 – July, 1999 (full time)

PRA (Professional Rehabilitation Associates, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Dec. 1998 – July, 1999 (per diem)

 

·         Performing bedside swallow evaluation and providing dysphagia treatment/mangement to elderly patients

·         Assessing speech/language/cognitive abilities in elderly patients with neurogenic disorders/motor speech disorders

·         Providing in-service to nursing staff and education/counseling to patients and their families/care givers

 

Clinical Intern

Phonology Clinic, Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, Aug. 1994 – Dec. 1994. 

 

·         Assessing children's phonology and/or articulation disorders

·         Providing early intervention and treatment

 

Learning Services (Subacute Rehabilitation Center), Middleton, WI, Jan. - June 1995.

 

·         Assessing speech, language, and/or cognitive functions of various populations: traumatic brain injury, aphasia, motor speech disorders

·         Providing services (e.g., facilitatory and/or compensatory strategies) to individuals with cognitive, memory, speech, and/or language impairments as well as swallowing disorders

 

Graduate Trainee

Maternal and Child Health Leadership Program, Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sept. 1994 – Jan. 1995.

               

·         Receiving leadership training on interdisciplinary team approach

·         Assisting in home care for children with special needs

·         Participating in clinical assessment/diagnosis and parental conference

 

 

Speech Therapist

Otolaryngology Department, Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Aug. 1982 – Aug. 1986.

 

·         Assessing/evaluating various communication disorders in children and adults; mostly individuals with voice disorders and laryngectomy, craniofacial anomalie (articulation/phonology disorders), fluency disorders, and some individuals with neurogenic communication disorders

·         Providing treatment and/or management to both outpatient and inpatient with speech/voice/language disorders

·         Providing speech rehabilitation services to individuals with laryngectomy; and assisting them in organizing a "lost cord club"

·         Conducting auditory tests (pure tone audiometry, acoustic reflex/impedance)

 

Clinical Psychologist Intern

Mental Health Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Aug. 1981 - June 1982.

 

·         Administering psychological tests to psychiatric patients

·         Conducting case presentations to interdisciplinary team

 

Senior Volunteer Counselor

Counseling Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., and June 1979 - June 1982.

 

·         Administering educational and/or psychological tests

·         Providing counseling services to both individuals and group

·         Training junior counselors and counselors-to-be

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

                Tsao, Y.-C. (manuscript in progress).  The variation of habitual speaking rate: regional dialect and its implications (to be submitted to the Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research).

 

                Tsao, Y.-C., & Weismer, G. (manuscript in progress). Does interspeaker variation in habitual speaking rate predict the size of the acoustic vowel space? (to be submitted to the Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research).

 

                Tsao, Y.-C., & Weismer, G. (1997).  Inter-speaker variation in habitual speaking rate: Evidence for a neuromuscular component, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40(4), 858-866.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C. (1995).  What explains the habitual speaking rate: Neuromuscular constraints versus sociolinguistic considerations. International Dissertation Abstract, DAI-A, 56/05, p. 1583, November.

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

                Tsao, Y.-C.  (in press). Introduction to speech science, in L.-R. Cheng (Ed.), Asia Pacific Speech and Hearing Science Group Reports.                

 

                Tsao, Y.-C. (in progress).  Neural bases of speech and language, in C.-H. Tseng (Ed.), Bases of Speech-Language Pathology, Volume 3. Psychology Association Publisher, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C. (1997).  Motor speech disorders, in C.-H. Tseng (Ed.), Bases of Speech-Language Pathology, Volume 2. Psychology Association Publisher,        Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C. (1996).  Stuttering: assessment and treatment, in C.-H. Tseng (Ed.),  Bases of Speech-Language Pathology, Volume 1. Psychology Association Publisher, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

                Momhammedali, R. & Tsao, Y.-C.     (2000). Paper accepted for presentation at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention, Washington, D.C., November, 2000.

 

                Rochverger, I. & Tsao, Y.-C. (2000). Paper accepted for presentation at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association ASHA Convention, Washington, D.C., November, 2000.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C. (2000). Accommodating clients from multicultural background in geriatric population. The fifth Annual Multicultural Conference, Fullerton, CA, April, 2000.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C., & Weismer, G. (1999). Does interspeaker variation in habitual speaking rate predict the size of the acoustic vowel space? Paper presented at the 137TH Meeting of the Acosutical Society of America and 2nd Convention of the European Acoustics Association: Forum Acusticum. Berlin, March 1999.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C., & Weismer, G. (1997). Searching for the nature of motor speech control: Vowel reduction as a function of speaking rates. Paper presented at the Acoustic Society of America Conference, Pennsylvania, June.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C. (1996).  The relationship between individuals' actual and perceived speaking rates.  Paper presented at the American Speech and Hearing Annual Convention, November, Seattle, Washington.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C., & Weismer, G. (1994). The explanation of the variation of habitual speaking rate.  Paper presented at the Acoustical Society of America Convention, June, MIT, Massachusetts.

 

                Tjaden, K., Tsao, Y.-C., & Weismer, G. (1994). The acoustic vowel space of normal and misarticulating children.  Paper presented at the Acoustical Society of America Convention, June, MIT, Massachusetts.

 

                Forrest, K., Tsao, Y.-C., Weismer, G., Elbert, M., & Dinnsen, D.A. (1992). Formant trajectories in the speech of normally-articulating and misarticulating children.  Paper presented at the Acoustical Society of America Convention.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C., & Weismer, G. (1991).  Assessing the laryngeal behaviors of stutterers: Electroglottograpic evidence. Paper presented at the Wisconsin Speech-Language-and-Hearing Annual Conference, April, Steven Point, Wisconsin.

 

                Tsao, Y.-C., & Weismer, G. (1991). The Electroglottographic waveforms in the speech of stutterers.  Paper presented at the American Speech and Hearing Annual Convention, November, Atlanta, George.