Angela Bonino
Assistant Professor
Director, Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory (ChAPL)
Education:
- Postdoc, 2012-2014 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
- Ph.D., 2012, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
- M.S., 2004, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
- B.A., 2002, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Biography:
Dr. Bonino is clinically trained as a pediatric audiologist, has practiced as an educational audiologist, and is a researcher in the area of developmental psychoacoustics. Her laboratory, the Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory (ChAPL), studies human auditory development using methods from the fields of psychoacoustics, speech perception, and pediatric audiology. The long-term goal of Dr. Bonino’s line of research is to improve hearing health care for children who have developmental disabilities by transforming the standard of clinical care to include developmentally-informed behavioral testing methods and practices. Expected outcomes for current work (with support from NIH) are 1) to define key methodology parameters that result in obtaining high-quality hearing sensitivity data from young children who have developmental disabilities collected with behavioral methods; and 2) to identify gaps in current clinical hearing assessment practices for children with developmental disabilities by using electronic health record data. These results will pave the way for reducing hearing health care disparities for children with developmental disabilities as many developmental profiles (e.g., Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and intellectual disability) are associated with a higher risk of reduced hearing than seen in the general population.
Publications on NCBI:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/angela.bonino.1/bibliography/public/