Sandie Bass-Ringdahl

Dr. Bass-Ringdahl has 20 years of experience conducting research in the area of early vocalization development in populations of children who are at risk for delayed development. During that time she served as an investigator for a 10-year period on two, continuous grants funded by the National Institutes of Health-National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIH-NIDCD, Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center IV and V) where her work focused on the development of canonical babble in children with hearing impairment. From 2008-2011, she served as an investigator on a third grant funded by NIH-NIDCD, Moderators and Functional Outcomes in Children with Mild to Severe Hearing Loss (OCHL). She was involved in the protocol development for the early speech and audiology portions, and co-developed an assessment of early vocalization development (Moeller, M.P., Bass-Ringdahl, S., Ambrose, S.E., VanDam, M. & Tomblin, J.B., 2011). Dr. Bass-Ringdahl continues her study of early vocaliztion development at UGA, and has expanded her research into populations of children with ASD and developmental delay.