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Laurie S. Eisenberg, Ph.D., is a licensed audiologist and associate scientist in the research department of the Children’s Auditory Research and Evaluation (CARE) Center at the House Ear Institute (HEI). She began her career at HEI in 1976 as a clinical audiologist in the very early stages of the cochlear implant project under the direction of William F. House, M.D. She had the distinct honor of working with the very first young implant child. Dr. Eisenberg’s research projects at HEI focus mainly on auditory sensory aids and communication outcomes in deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

Dr. Eisenberg has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other prestigious organizations to conduct research on the following projects: Comparison of Sensory Aids in Deaf Children; Auditory Development in Early-Identified Children; and Childhood Development After Cochlear Implantation. She is beginning a new project to develop tests that measure auditory perceptual capacity in infants and young children with hearing loss. Dr. Eisenberg’s previous research projects also dealt with hearing aid fitting procedures in children and linguistic/cognitive variables related to speech perception.

Dr. Eisenberg has been an associate editor for the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research and is currently an associate editor for The Volta Review. Further, she is a member of numerous editorial boards. Dr. Eisenberg regularly sits on several special emphasis panels to review grants for NIH. Her many peer-reviewed articles have been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Ear and Hearing, and Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. Dr. Eisenberg received her Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences from The City University of New York Graduate School, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Human Auditory Laboratory at the UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.

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