Center for Perception and Communication in Children

​​​​The Advisory Committee (AC) provides input on scientific progress, which includes reviews of individual and pilot projects, evaluations of core facilities, and feedback on programmatic expansions. This committee plays an essential role in ensuring scientific rigor by reviewing research projects and providing feedback to Project Leads, Pilot Project investigators, and Core Leads. This committee is composed of five members, all of whom have extensive experience as grant reviewers and mentors.

Members of the AC come to Boys Town National Research Hospital each year for a two-day meeting. Project Leads present a summary of their progress and discuss future directions with the AC. Watch the videos below to learn more about the projects that were presented to the AC.

Ryan McCreery, Ph.D.​, Chair of the AC. Dr. McCreery is the Vice President of Research, and Director of the Audibility, Perception and Cognition Laboratory and Director of the Center for Audiology at BTNRH. His research has contributed to our understanding of the importance of cumulative auditory experience on language and sensory development.  

Lisa Bedore, Ph.D., is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is a leading expert in areas related to developmental language disorders and language learning, particularly as they pertain to bilingual children.  

Lisa Goffman, Ph.D., is the Nelle C. Johnston Chair in Communication Disorders in Children and a Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences in the College of Health and Human Sciences at the University of Texas, Dallas. Dr. Goffman is known for her work on developmental language disorders, using an approach that integrates motor and cognitive components and applies those findings to intervention practices.

Andrew Oxenham, Ph.D., is a Distinguished McKnight Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is highly respected for his work on auditory and speech perception, addressing questions related to pitch, speech recognition with acoustic and/or electric hearing, and auditory scene analysis.