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Noel D. Matkin Grant Application and Past Winners

Noel D. Matkin Grant Online Application | Past Recipients

Noel D. Matkin Grant Online Application

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Concisely describe the project’s specific aims, methodology and long-term objectives. Address the relation of the project to clinical practice and its potential impact on the field of educational audiology.
• Specific Objectives: present the problem or issue to be addressed and the specific objectives of the project. • Methods and Procedures: provide a description of the project design, including subjects, personnel, measurement techniques, instrumentation, data analysis and evaluation procedures. This section should provide sufficient detail for reviewers to be able to make informed judgments about the soundness of the proposed project procedures. • Facilities and Resources: describe the facilities, resources, and personnel available to the applicant for carrying out the proposed project (e.g., clients, subjects, teachers, professionals) available to the applicant for carrying out the proposed project.
Plan should include outline of project activities and timelines as well as justification of budget items. If funds are requested for travel to an EAA Conference to present project results, this information should be included.
The applicant should submit evidence that the proposal meets the requirements for adequate protection of human subjects by attaching a statement of support from an internal Human Subjects for Research Projects Review Committee or a copy of submission forms. Funds will not be released until final approval documents from the applicant’s facility have been received. Also acceptable is a statement outlining the elements of the design and procedures that fulfill accepted practices recognized as providing adequate protection to human subjects.
Include a brief biographical sketch on each researcher. Each sketch should include educational and professional background.
Submit a letter from your academic advisor, research mentor or program director indicating that the proposed project will not present a conflict of interest with your current responsibilities and commitments and commenting on the merits of the proposed project.

Noel D. Matkin Grant Past Recipients

Noel D. Matkin Grants Awarded:

  • The characterization of the development of voice emotion perception in young children with and without hearing loss, Monika-Maria (Mona) Oster (2023)
  • Survey of collaborative practice patterns between educational audiologists and teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing, Samantha Gustafson and Nicole Pilling (2021)
  • An Educational Model for Mississippi Telepractice Plus Direct Service Provision, Kim Ward and Rebecca Lowe (2018)
  • Reading Readiness: Measuring the Effects of Phonological Awareness Intervention Designed for Preschool Children With Hearing Impairment, Kris English (2011)
  • Children’s Speech Perception in Noise Using the Phrases in Noise Test (PINT), Erin Schafer (2010)
  • Developing an Assessment to Evaluate Audiology Graduate Students’ Counseling and Communication Skills, Kristina English, PhD, University of Pittsburgh (2004)
  • Middle School Students’ Impressions of Peers Wearing FM Receivers, Carole Johnson, PhD, Auburn University (2004)
  • Fresh Start/South of Seventy Parent Conference, Kimberly Ott (2003)
  • Children’s Speech Recognition Using FM Systems, Erin Shafer (2002)
  • Teacher Rating of the Classroom Performance of Children With Hearing Loss, Karen Anderson (2000)
  • Teaching Hearing Conservation to School Children: Comparing the Outcomes and Efficacy of two Pedagogical Approaches, Jessie Ann Bennett (1999)
  • Early Identification and Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers With Hearing Loss in the State of Ohio, Trisha M. VanArsdel (1999)
  • Using FM Systems to Improve Speech Perception in Students for Whom English is a Second Language, Melinda Anne Mitford (1998)

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