News:

• October 2009: Our poster "Bilateral Intermuscular Beta Coherence is Reduced in Individuals with Vocal Hyperfunction" has won the American Society of NeuroRehabilitation (ASNR) Presidential Award at the ACRM-ASNR Joint Educational Conference in Denver, October 7 - 11, 2009.
• July 2009: I have successfully defended my thesis, Characterization and Improvement of the Clinical Assessment of Vocal Hyperfunction.

Selected Refereed Publications:

• C Stepp, R Hillman, J Heaton. "Use of Neck Strap Muscle Intermuscular Coherence as a Measure of Vocal Hyperfunction", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, In Press.
  
  
• C Stepp, J Heaton, M Braden, T Stadelman-Cohen, R Hillman. "Comparison of neck tension palpation rating systems with surface electromyographic and acoustic measures in vocal hyperfunction", Journal of Voice, In Press.
  
  
• H Kubert, C Stepp, S Zeitels, J Gooey, M Walsh, S Prakash, R Hillman, J Heaton. "Electromyographic Control of a Hands-Free Electrolarynx Using Neck Strap Muscles", Journal of Communication Disorders, 42(3), 2009.
  
  
• Cara Stepp, James Heaton, Rebecca Rolland, Robert Hillman. "Neck and face surface electromyography for prosthetic voice control after total laryngectomy", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 17(2), 2009.
  
  
• Cara Stepp, James Heaton, Robert Hillman. "Post-laryngectomy speech respiration patterns", Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, 117(8), 2008.
  
  
• Ehab Goldstein, James Heaton, Cara Stepp, Robert Hillman. "Training effects on speech production using a hands-free electromyographically-controlled electrolarynx", Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50(2), 2007.
  
  
• Cara Stepp, Susan Voss. "Acoustics of the human middle-ear air space", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118 (2), 2005.