Wendy Lecluyse, PhD.
Visiting Fellow
Contact Details
Room 2.724
Department of Psychology
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ
U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)1206 - 873941
Fax: +44 (0)1206 - 874901
username wleclu add @essex.ac.uk for email address
BIOGRAPHY
Wendy Lecluyse obtained her graduate degree in Speech and Language Therapy and Audiology in 1998 at Ghent University, Belgium. She subsequently worked as a paediatric speech and language therapist specializing in hearing impairment and specific language impairments.
In 2009 she obtained a PhD in Psychology at the University of Essex. Her PhD work focused on developing detailed assessment procedures for hearing impairments. During a subsequent research position, she studied speech perception in noisy environments and worked on the development of a biologically-inspired hearing aid.
In 2012, Wendy was appointed as lecturer in Early Childhood Studies in the School of Applied Social Sciences at University Campus Suffolk. Wendy remains active as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Wendy's research focuses on:
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the basic auditory processes in typical hearing and how these are affected in impaired hearing
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developing assessment procedures to measure detailed 'hearing profiles' of hearing impaired individuals. This information can subsequently be used to gain an insight in the underlying pathology and to develop a computer model of this individual's hearing
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the development and evaluation of a biologically-inspired hearing-aid
Other research interests are speech and language development in specific groups (such as children with a hearing impairment, bilingual children ... ) and the effect of noise in the classroom.
PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR Ray Meddis
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Lecluyse, W., Tan, C.M., MCFerran, D. and Meddis, R. (2013). Acquisition of auditory profiles for good and impaired hearing. International Journal of Audiology. Early online, 1-10.
Tan, C.M., Lecluyse, W., MCFerran, D. and Meddis, R. (2013). ‘Tinnitus and Patterns of Hearing Loss’, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 14, 275-282. download.pdf
Nicholas R. Clark, Wendy Lecluyse, Tim Jurgens, Ray Meddis (2012), BioAid: The Biologically Inspired Hearing Aid. Apple App Store, www.bioaid.org.uk
Meddis, R. and Lecluyse, W. (2011). Absolute threshold and signal duration: a probabilistic approach. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 129, 3153-3165. (download.pdf)
Meddis, R., Lecluyse, W., Tan, C.M., Panda, M.R., and Ferry, R.T. (2010). “Beyond the audiogram: identifying and modeling patterns of hearing deficits” in Lopez-Poveda E.A., Palmer A. R., and Meddis R. (Eds.). The neurophysiological bases of auditory perception. Springer-Verlag, New York, Chapter 57.
Robertson, M., Brown, G.J., Lecluyse, W., Panda, M. and Tan, C. (2010). A speech-in-noise test based on spoken digits: Comparison of normal and impaired listeners using a computer model. INTERSPEECH-2010, 2470-2473.
Lecluyse, W., and Meddis, R. (2009). “A simple single-interval adaptive procedure for estimating thresholds in normal and impaired listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 126, 2570-2579. download.pdf
