Monica McHenry, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Associate Professor
- Phone: (713) 743-5503
- Email: mmchenry@uh.edu
- Office: 116 Clinical Research Services Center
Dr. McHenry received a Master's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Dr. McHenry teaches an undergraduate course in speech and hearing systems and graduate courses in voice and research. Areas of interest include motor speech disorders and the professional voice. Previously employed at the Transitional Learning Community in Galveston.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Washington
- M.A., Pennsylvania State University
Teaching
- 4385/6398 Speech Science
- 6326 Motor Speech Disorders
- 6387 Voice Disorders
- 6361 Research Methods in Communication Disorders
Research Interests
- An acoustic analysis of physician-patient interactions
- The effectiveness of vocal warm-up with and without aerobic exercise
- The effect of aerobic exercise on the vocal symptoms of muscle tension dysphonia
- The ecological validity of intelligibility assessment
- Hearing aid fitting for the professional singer
- Development of additional unpredictable sentences for intelligibility assessment
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- McHenry, M.A. & Parle, A.M. (2006) "Construction of a set of unpredictable sentences for intelligibilty testing." Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 14 (4),269-272.
- Carlson, H. K. & McHenry, M.A. "Effect of Accent and Dialect on Employability." (2006). Journal of Employment Counseling, 43 (2), 70-83.
- McHenry, M. A. & Liss, J. (2006). "The impact of stimulated vocal loudness on nasalance in dysarthria." Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 14 (3), 197-105.
Completed and Ongoing Masters Theses – Primary Advisor
- Predicting the intelligibility of children with cochlear implants - in progress
- The effect of accent and dialect on employability - completed Spring 2002
- Pitch discimination and pitch matching abilities of adults who sing inaccurately - completed Spring 2004.