The Buckeye Center for Hearing and Development, directed by Derek Houston, in the department of Otolaryngology at The Ohio State University Medical Center seeks a motivated, detail-oriented, and organized individual to serve as a full-time research assistant/technician for an NIH-funded project in collaboration with the Developmental Intelligence lab (https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/dil/), directed by Chen Yu. The project employs state-of-the-art sensing and computing techniques to investigate the coordination of parent-child interactions in the service of novel word learning in young children who are deaf and receive cochlear implants.
The research assistant will work with children and their parents and a team of researchers including undergraduate research assistants, research associates, postdocs, and faculty members. An ideal candidate will be a detail-oriented recent college graduate who majored in psychology, cognitive science, speech and hearing, or a related field and is looking for additional research experience before applying to graduate school. The position offers a unique opportunity to obtain hands-on experiences on using cutting-edge technology to study parent-child interaction and word learning in typically developing and deaf/hard-of-hearing toddlers who use cochlear implants and/or hearing aids.
Primary duties will include:
Minimum requirements for this position include:
Preferred qualifications:
Preferred start date is early 2022 and the position includes benefits.
HIRING RANGE: $18.10 - $22.65/hr
To apply: please send a CV and cover letter to Molly Cooke at Molly.Cooke@xxxxxxxxxApplications will be accepted until November 15th
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Derek M. Houston, PhD
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Director of Research, Buckeye Center for Hearing and Development
Adjunct, Departments of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Psychology
https://medicine.osu.edu/find-faculty/clinical/otolaryngology/derek-houston-phd