BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Current Position:
Director of Deaf Education Studies, Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences
Assistant Professor, Department in Otolaryngology
Assistan Professor (Joint), Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences

Education:
B.A., Art History, Emory University, 1995
M.E.D., Education of the Deaf, Smith College, 1998
Ph.D., Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2009

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Language and literacy development in children with cochlear implants



PUBLICATIONS:
Hayes, H., Kessler, B., & Treiman, R. (2005). English spelling: Making sense of a seemingly chaotic writing system. The International Dyslexia Association Perspectives, 31 (3), 8-10.

Hayes, H., Treiman, R., & Kessler, B. (2006). Children use vowels to help them spell consonants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94, 27-42.

Hayes, H., Geers, A.E., Treiman, R., & Moog, J.S. (2009). Receptive vocabulary development in deaf children with cochlear implants: Achievement in an intensive auditory-oral educational setting. Ear and Hearing, 30, 128-135.

Geers, A.E., Moog, J.S., Biedenstein, J., Brenner, C., & Hayes, H. (2009). Spoken language scores of children using cochlear implants compared to hearing age-mates at school entry. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 14, 371-385.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Heather Hayes, Ph.D.
Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine
Campus Box 8042, 600 South Euclid
St. Louis, MO 63110

Phone: 314-747-0109
Fax: 314-747-0105
Email address: hhayes@wustl.edu