Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology
Director, DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory, Indiana University School of Medicine
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences
(317) 274-8465
kkirk@iupui.edu

Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1991

Morkovin Fellow, University of Southern California, 1986-87

• New Research Investigator Award American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, 1993
• NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award, 1996-2001

• Speech perception and speech production by children and adults with profound hearing loss
• Spoken word recognition and lexical access
• Perceptual learning
• Cochlear implants

The DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory is equipped with PCS and software needed for on-line acquisition and analysis of speech signals, and for presenting auditory or visual speech signals to subjects and recording their responses in real-time. All computers are interfaced to a mainframe computer on the Indianapolis campus which is part of a state-wide Indiana University computing network.

Kirk, K. I., Diefendort, A. O., Pisoni, D. B. & Robbins, A. M. (1997). Assessing speech perception performance in children.
In L. Mendel & J. Danhauer (Eds.), Audiologic Evaluation and Management and Speech Perception Assessment, San Diego: Singular Press.

Sommers, M. S., Kirk, K. I. & Pisoni, D. B. (1997). Some considerations in evaluating spoken word recognition by normal-hearing, noise-masked normal hearing and cochlear implant users I: The effects of response format.
Ear and Hearing, 18, 89-99.

Kirk, K. I., Pisoni, D. B. & Miyamoto, R. C. (in press). Effects of stimulus variability on speech perception in listeners with hearing impairment.
Journal of Speech and Hearing Research.

Kirk, K. I., Sehgal, M. & Miyamoto, R. T. (in press). Speech perception performance of Nucleus multichannel cochlear implant users with partial electrode insertions.
Ear and Hearing.

Sehgal, S. T., Kirk, K. I., Svirsky, M. A., Ertmer, D. J. & Osberger, M.J. (in press). Imitative consonant feature production by children with multichannel sensory aids.
Ear and Hearing.