Don Finan, PhD, Department Chair, Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders, College of Natural and Health Sciences

Don Finan, PhD

Communication Sciences & Disorders
College of Natural and Health Sciences

Email

donald.finan@unco.edu

Phone

970-351-1897

Fax

970-351-2974

Office

Gunter 1480

PhD, Speech Physiology & Developmental Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
MS, Speech Pathology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
BS, Speech Pathology & Audiology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2016-present, Professor, Audiology & Speech-Language Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
2011-2016, Associate Professor, Audiology & Speech-Language Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
2009-2011, Assistant Professor, Audiology & Speech-Language Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
2001-2008, Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2000-2001, Assistant Professor, Communication Disorders and Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Aspects of motor control for speech and other oromotor behaviors
Perturbation paradigms to investigate oromotor control in infants, children and adults to altered sensorimotor environments
Speech and feeding development in infants
Development of respiratory/laryngeal coordination for speech in children
Responses to auditory perturbation (altered auditory feedback or acoustic startle) in individuals who stutter
Articulatory responses to lingual perturbation
Co-developer of the Actifier II and NTrainer technologies, devices used to assess and provide therapeutic stimulation to premature infants with oromotor feeding deficits

Barlow SM, Finan DS, Andreatta R, & Boliek CA (2008). Kinematic measurement of the human speech mechanism. In: M. McNeil (ed.) The Clinical Management of Sensorimotor Speech Disorders, 2nct Ed., Theime Medical Publishers.
Barlow SM, Finan DS, & Park S-Y (2004). Sensorimotor entrainment of respiratory and orofacial systems in humans. In B. Maassen, W. Hulstijn, R. Kent, H.F.M. Peters, P.H.M.M. van Lieshout (Eds.), Speech Motor Control in Normal and Disordered Speech. Oxford University Press.

Meinke DK, Murphy WJ, Finan DS, Lankford JE, Flamme GA, Stewart M, Soendergaard J, & Jerome TW (2014). Auditory risk estimates for youth target shooting. International Journal of Audiology Vol 53: pp S16-S25.
Meinke D, Finan D, Soendergaard J, Flamme G, Murphy W, Lankford J, & Stewart M {2013}. Impulse noise generated by starter pistols. International Journal of Audiology Vol. 52: pp S9-19.
Finan DS, Tasko SM (2012). Toward a speech sciences community. Perspectives on Speech Science and Orofacial Disorders, 22(1): 14-20.
Murphy WJ, Flamme GA, Meinke DK, Sondergaard J, Finan DS, Lankford JE, Khan A, Vernon J, & Stewart M {2012). Measurement of impulse peak insertion loss for four hearing protection devices in field conditions. International Journal of Audiology, 51: S31-S42.
Finan DS (2010). Get Hip to the Data Acquisition Scene: Principles of Digital Signal Recording. Perspectives on Speech Science and Orofacial Disorders, 20 6-13.
Pollard R, Finan D, & Ramig PR {2010). Response to Saltuklaroglu, Kalinowski, and Stuart (201O}. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research,_53: 912 - 916.