509 C Simpson St.
Greensboro, North Carolina
27401
Phone 336-256-2004
Fax 336-334-4475
E-mail datucker@uncg.edu
Denise A. Tucker
Education
1986-1993
University of Virginia
Ph.D. Audiology
Charlottesville, Virginia
1979-1981
Brigham Young University
Master of
Provo, Utah
Communication
Disorders
1975-1979
Bachelors of
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
Science
Professional
Experience:
1998 – present
University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Appointments:
1993 to 1994
1994 to 1998
Lecturer
Visiting Assistant Professor
1998 to Present
Assistant Professor
Classroom Teaching: Responsible for teaching audiology courses to graduate
and undergraduate students. Course instruction includes Introduction to
Audiology, Medical Audiology, Peripheral Electrophysiologic Measurements
(OAE, ABR, ECochG, AMLR, Hearing Aids, Pediatric Audiology, and Aural
Rehabilitation).
 Clinical Teaching: Presently serving as Audiology clinic supervisor of the
UNCG Audiology Clinic. Responsible for supervising audiology graduate
clinicians in their audiology clinic rotations. Also provide supervision for
speech pathology graduate students in hearing screening procedures. Currently
working with the UNCG hearing aid dispensing program and the new Tinnitus
Retraining Therapy program in the Audiology Clinic.
 Principal Investigator: Learning to Hear Project.
Responsible for establishing and overseeing a three-year grant project funded to
provide Aural Rehabilitation services to needy hearing impaired children and
adults living in the Piedmont Triad. Services include speech reading, auditory
training, therapy for Central Auditory processing Disorder (CAPD), and aural
rehab workshops for hearing aid users.
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Research: responsible for advising 2nd year audiology graduate students in
masters research projects. Involved in collaborative brainmapping research of
Auditory Middle Latency Responses (AMLR) with Brigham Young
University.
Service: Appointed fellow of the UNCG Cornelia Strong Residential College.
Also have served as CSD Department representative for SOAR advising
program for new freshman, transfer, and adult students.
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Conferences
Attended
American Academy of Audiology (AAA)
American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA)
North Carolina Speech Hearing Language Association (NCSHLA)
Internal Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group (IERASG)
Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)
American Tinnitus Association (ATA)
 International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group, meeting in
Memphis, Tennessee, June 8-12, 1997.
(since 1997)
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North Carolina Speech Hearing Language and Audiology (NCSHLA) Spring
meeting, April 9, 1998, Asheville, North Carolina.
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National Meeting of the American Academy of Audiology, April 10-15, 1998,
Los Angeles, California.
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North Carolina Speech Hearing Language and Audiology (NCSHLA) fall state
conference, September 25-27, 1998, Greensboro, North Carolina.
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International Meeting of the Association of Research in Otolaryngology
(ARO), Mid Winter Meeting, February 14-18, 1999, St. Petersburg, Florida.
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National Meeting of the American Academy of Audiology, April 27 to May,
1999, Miami, Florida.
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VIth International Tinnitus Seminar, 9/5-9/99, Cambridge, England.
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North Carolina Speech Hearing Language and Audiology (NCSHLA) fall state
conference, October 1-2, 1999, High Point, North Carolina.
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VII Course in Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) management of Tinnitus and
Hyperacousis, Oct 24 to 25, 1999, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Widex Corporation Workshop on Digital Hearing Aids, November 24, 1998,
Greensboro, North Carolina.
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National meeting of the American Academy of Audiology, March 15-18, 2000,
Chicago, Illinois.
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North Carolina Speech Hearing Language and Audiology (NCSHLA) spring
state conference, March 24 to 25, 2000, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Starkey Digital Hearing Aid Workshop, April 6, 2000, Greensboro, NC.
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International Meeting of the Association of Research in Otolaryngology
(ARO), Mid Winter Meeting, February 4-8 , 2001, St. Petersburg, Florida.
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International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group, meeting in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 20-27, 2001.
Professional
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Community
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1998 – present
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Greensboro Clinical Site Facilitator for the University of Florida AuD
Long Distance Learning program (October 1998 to present):.
Audiology Editor for state North Carolina Speech Hearing Language
Association Newsletter, Spring 1999-present. (2 year elected term).
Invited Manuscript Reviewer for articles submitted for publication in the
American Journal of Audiology and Ear and Hearing (Have thus far
reviewed 4 research-based manuscripts.)
Aural Rehabilitation (AR) workshop at UNCG for adults with hearing
impairment, July 8, 1998.
Free Hearing Screenings at Rankin Elementary School. Screening hearing for
over 400 needy children, Greensboro, North Carolina, September 1998.
AR workshop at College Place Methodist Church, Greensboro, North
Carolina, September 15, 1998.
AR Presentation to the Shepherd’s Center, a community organization for
Senior citizens sponsored by area churches, Greensboro, NC, 10/8/98.
AR Presentation to area Lion’s Club., Greensboro, North Carolina, 1/23/99.
AR workshop for adults at UNCG, February 6, 1999.
AR workshop at Friend’s Home West Retirement Community, Greensboro,
North Carolina, March 8, 1999.
Free Hearing Screenings at Glenwood Public Library, Greensboro, North
Carolina, March 15, 1999.
AR workshop at Greensboro Glenwood Library, Greensboro, North Carolina,
March 18, 1999.
AR workshop at Well Spring Retirement Community, Greensboro, North
Carolina, March 22, 1999.
AR workshop at Guilford Friends Home West Retirement Community,
Greensboro, North Carolina, March 31, 1999.
Free Hearing Screenings at Health Fair at Abbottswood Retirement
Community, Greensboro, North Carolina, April 10, 1999.
Free Hearing Screenings at Greensboro City Employment Security
Commission., Greensboro, North Carolina, April 14, 1999.
Presentation of Learning to Hear Grant Program and UNCG Audiology Clinic
Services to Greensboro Hispanic Organization, Greensboro, North Carolina,
April, 1999.
Free Hearing Screening at Rankin Elementary School, September 1999.
AR Workshop at Rehobeth Methodist Church, Greensboro, North Carolina,
November 9, 1999.
Hearing Screening at Covenant Christian School, November 12, 1999.
Free Hearing Screenings for adults at UNCG on November 19 and December
12, 1999.
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Grants
December, 1996
July, 1997
October, 1997
December 1998
February, 1999
Total Grant Awards: $401,295
UNCG Computer Technology Education Program (CTEP) grant: Purchase of
a new computer and clinical instruction software for the UNCG audiology
clinic.
$2,372
Learning to Hear Project: A grant for seed money to fund an Aural Rehab
clinic at the UNCG Speech and hearing center. Funded by the Kate B.
Reynolds Charitable Trust.
$191,540
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro: Grant proposal to provide
funds for publicity for the Learning to Hear Project.
$7,500
UNCG Advancement of Curriculum and Teaching (ACT) grant: Funds were
awarded to attend the fifth International tinnitus Seminar in Cambridge
England.
$2,200
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro: Grant proposal submitted
October 1998 to continue to support the publicity/travel needs of the
“Learning to Hear Project.” Specifically, travel funds will bb used to send
Audiology clinic supervisors to a Tinnitus Retraining Therapy seminar.
$5,600
April, 1999
CTEP Grant: Funds were awarded to purchase a new computer and clinical
therapy software for student therapy room 304.
$2,430.44
April, 2000
CTEP grant: Funding obtained for the purchase of Data Projector and Lap Top
Computer to Enhance Teaching in Public Schools in Speech-Language
Pathology Externship Sites and University Audiology Instruction.
$1,800
June, 2001
CTEP grant: Funding obtained from the Community Foundation of Greater
Greensboro for purchase of computer and therapy software for children with
Central Auditory Processing disorders and reading problems.
$3,853
December, 2000
Concept Paper: Grant proposal for congressional earmark money to fund the
creation of the UNCG Tinnitus Center for Tinnitus Retraining therapy. Funds
were obtained for renovation of clinc space, creation of Tinnitus counseling
room, and purchase of new scientific equipment.
$184,000
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Publications
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Tucker D, Dietrich S, Harris S, and Pelletier S. The effects of stimulus rate and gender
on the auditory middle latency response. Journal of the American Academy of
Audiology, 13: Number 3: 143-152, March 2002.
Tucker, D., Dietrich, S., McPherson, D., Salamat, M. The Effect of Stimulus Intensity
Level on AMLR Brainmaps in Human Adults. Journal of the American Academy of
Audiology, 12: 223-232, May 2001.
Pynchon, K., Tucker D., Barrett, K., and Herr, D. Area under-the curve measures of
the auditory middle latency response (AMLR) from birth to early adulthood. American
Journal of Audiology, 7: No.2: 45-49, 1998.
Sykes, S., Tucker, D., and Herr, D. Aural Rehabilitation Experience offered to
Audiology Students in ASHA Accredited Training Programs. Journal of the American
Academy of Audiology, 8; 314-321, 1997.
Tucker, D. And Ruth, R. The effects of age, signal level, and signal rate on auditory
middle latency responses. The Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 7:
NO 2: 83-91, 1996.
Hall, J.W., and Tucker, D.A. Auditory evoked responses in traumatic head injury.
The Hearing Journal, 38:23-29, 1985.
Hall, J., And Tucker, D. Sensory evoked responses in the intensive care unit. Ear and
Hearing. 7 (4): 220-232, 1986.
Hall, J., And Tucker, D. Auditory brainstem response in the evaluation of peripheral
versus central nervous system dysfunction in the pediatric intensive care unit. Seminars
in Hearing, 9 (1): 47-60, 1988.
Hall, J. And Tucker, D. the auditory brainstem response in acute brain injury. In:
Clinical Atlas of Auditory Evoked Potentials, Grune and Straton, INC, Orlando
Florida, 1988.
Hall, J., And Tucker D. Applications of multimodality sensory evoked responses in the
pediatric intensive care unit. In: Neurotrauma: Treatment, rehabilitation, and
Related Issues, No 3, Butterworth Publishers, Stoneham, MA, 1989.
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Scholarly
Presentations
Tucker D. Managing the Tinnitus Patient. Invited workshop presentation given at
the state meeting of the Mississippi Speech and Hearing Association, Jackson,
Mississippi, April 5, 2002.
Tucker, D., Dietrich, S., Harris, S., and Pelletier, S. Effect of Stimulus Rate on AMLR
in Young Males. Poster sessions presented at the IERASG meeting in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, July 26, 2001.
Tucker, D. Tinnitus Update. Invited Presentation given at the North Carolina
Association for Hearing Rehabilitation. Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, April
6, 2001.
Tucker, D. Tinnitus Management. Invited Presentation given at the 47th Annual
Meeting of the North Carolina Speech, Hearing, and Language Association.
Wilmington, North Carolina, March 30, 2001
Tucker, D., Dietrich, S., Harris, S., and Pelletier, S. Effect of Stimulus Rate on AMLR
in Young Males. Mid Winter Meeting of the Association for Research in
Otolaryngology, February, 2001.
International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group, meeting in Memphis,
Tennessee, June 8-12, 1997
Tucker, D., Fox, L., McPherson, d., Hinton, V., and Herr, D. Elicitation of the
mismatch negativity (MMN) with three vowel pairs in normal adult women. Poster
presentation given at the 1999 Midwinter meeting of the Association for Research
in Otolaryngology (ARO), St. Petersburg, Florida, February, 1999.
Reynolds, E., Dietrich, S., Tucker, D., Herr, D. Central Auditory Processing in males
who stutter. Poster presentation: American Speech and Hearing Association
(ASHA) national convention San Antonio, Texas, 11/98.
Tucker, D., Ruth, R., Martin, W., Dietrich, S., Jacobson, G. Auditory evoked responses
in the 21st century. Panel discussion presented at the 10th annual meeting of the
American Academy of Audiology national convention, Los Angeles, CA, April 15,
1998.
Tucker, D., Royster, L., Hughes, P. the effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
an neurodiagnostic auditory brainstem and middle latency response. Poster presented a
the 10th annual meeting of the American Academy of Audiology national
convention, Los Angeles, CA, April 3, 1998.
Hughes, P., Royster, L., Tucker, D., Herr, D. The effects of selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitors and neurodiagnostic auditory brainstem and middle latency response. IRASG
Biennial Meeting, Memphis TN, June, 1997.
Tucker, D., Ruth, R., Tucci, D., Hughes, K., and Sykes, S. Hearing professionals’
perceptions of the master’s level audiology training programs and the proposed doctoral
program. Panel discussion presented to the annual North Carolina Speech,
Hearing, and Language Association Meeting, Research Triangle Park, 4/3/97.
Tucker, D., Dietrich, S., Hughes, P., and Royster, L. AMLR in clinical practice. A
presentation given at the Annuls North Carolina Speech, Hearing, and Language
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Presentations
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Association Meeting, Research Triangle Park, April 3, 1997.
Tucker, D. Central Auditory Processing Disorders. A three-hour workshop
presented to speech language pathologists and audiologists in the Rockingham
County School District, sponsored by AHEC, October, 1996.
Tucker, D., And Ruth, R. Maturational changes observed in middle and late auditory
evoked response waveforms in human subjects from birth to early adulthood. IERASG
Biennial Meeting, Lyon, France, August, 1995.
Tucker, D., And Ruth, R. The Development of the auditory middle latency responses
(AMLR) in humans. Poster session presented at the Sixth annual AAA National
Meeting Richmond, Virginia, April 27, 1994.
Tucker, D., And Ruth, R. The mismatched negativity: An involuntary cognitive
auditory evoked potential. Seminar presented - Annual meeting of the Speech and
Hearing Association of Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 27, 1992.
Tucker, D., And Ruth, R. Visual evoked potentials in the auditory clinic. Seminar
presented: Annual meeting of the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia,
McLean, Virginia, April 7, 1989.
Tucker, D., Ruth, R., and Habersang, R. Auditory and visual evoked responses in
neurologically impaired infants. Paper presented: National Meeting of the American
Speech and Hearing Association, Boston, MS, November 19, 1988.
Tucker, D. And Ruth R. Auditory and visual evoked responses in Neurologically
impaired children. Paper presented: Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia,
Roanoke, Virginia, March 17, 1988.
Hall, J., Tucker, D., And Habersang, R. Applications of multimodality sensory evoked
responses in the pediatric intensive care unit. Poster presentation: Third Annual
Houston Conference on Neurotrauma. Houston, TX, February 25-27, 1987.
Hall, J., And Tucker, D. Multimodality evoked responses in the evaluation of peripheral
sensory deficits. Paper presented at the national meeting of the American Speech
and Hearing Association. Detroit, MI, November, 1986.
Tucker, D., Hall, J., and Habersang, R. applications of multimodality evoked responses
in the pediatric intensive care unit. Paper presented: national meeting of the
American Speech and Hearing Association, Detroit, MI, November, 1986.
Hall, J., And Tucker, D. Monitoring CNS status of comatose patients with BAEP.
Paper presented at the International congress of Brainstem Auditory Evoked
Potentials, New York, NY, October, 1986.
Hall, J., And Tucker, D. Auditory evoked responses in severely head-injured children.
Paper presented to the Second National Traumatic Brain Injury Symposium,
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MA, April 1, 1986.
Hall J., tucker, D., and Brown, D. Applications of Auditory evoked responses in acute
head-injured children.
Paper presented at the Pediatric evoked Potentials
Conference, Snowbird, Utah, February, 1986.
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