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Richard I. Zraick, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Associate Professor  (tenured)                                                  

Graduate Courses Taught:

  • Voice Disorders
  • Neurogenic Speech Disorders
  • Neurogenic Language Disorders
  • Advanced Anatomy and Physiology for Speech
  • Craniofacial Speech Disorders

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

  • Voice and Stuttering

  • Speech and Hearing Mechanism

  • Introduction to Speech and Hearing

  • Phonetics

Current Research:

  • Leading a national multicenter validation study for the Consensus Auditory Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V). Project sponsored by ASHA.  This is a newly-developed instrument for use in evaluating voice patients and documenting patient-related therapy outcomes.

  • Conducting normative study of laryngeal aerodynamics in adults and children.  Project sponsored by KayPENTAX to develop norms and examine age and gender differences using their new Phonatory Airflow System (PAS) [http://www.kaypentax.com/Product%20Info/6600/6600.htm]
  • Developing standardized (aka simulated) patients for clinical skills teaching and testing.  This is an ongoing line of research where various types of communicatively-impaired “patients” and their “family members” are developed and used for simulated clinical encounters.

Future Research:

  • The role of patient motivation and support on efficacy of voice therapy.

  • The efficacy of behavioral voice therapy.
  • Changes in speech and voice related to normal and pathological aging processes.

 Email Address:  rizraick@uams.edu