Peggy Nelson
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

     Peggy Nelson is an audiologist and associate professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the University of Minnesota.  She has been an audiologist since 1982 and has worked with children and adults in schools, family centers, and clinics. She has an MA from Kansas State University, a PhD from the University of Kansas in 1991 and has done post-doctoral work at Gallaudet University and the University of Maryland.  Her research focuses on hearing loss, speech perception, and amplification.  She is especially interested in problems of understanding speech in noise by a variety of populations, including hard-of-hearing listeners, hearing aid users, and cochlear implant listeners. 

     She is currently involved in measuring speech perception in complex backgrounds, such as fluctuating noise or other competing talkers.  She measures auditory integration of complex signals like speech and segregation of those signals from complex acoustic backgrounds.  She studies this problems in listeners with moderate hearing loss who use hearing aids, as well as deaf listeners who use cochlear implants.

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