Publications
Tobey, E.A., Britt, L., Geers, A., Loizou, P., Loy, B., Roland, P., Warner-Czyz, A. (2012). Cochlear Implantation Updates: The Dallas Cochlear Implant Program. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 23 (6), pp. 438-445. 2012 - Publication
Warner-Czyz, A.D., Loy, B., Tobey, E.A., Nakonezy, P., & Roland, P.S. (2011). Exploring quality of life in children and adolescents using cochlear implants. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 75(1), 95-105. 2011 - Publication
Warner-Czyz, A.D., Davis, B.L., and MacNeilage, P.F. (2010). Accuracy of consonant-vowel syllables in young cochlear implant recipients and hearing children in the single word period. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53(1), 1-16. 2010 - Publication
Ulatowska, H.K., Chapman, S.B., Highley, A.P. & Prince, J. (1998). Discourse in healthy old-elderly adults: A longitudinal study. Aphasiology, 12 (7-8), 619-633. 1998 - Publication
News Articles

Dr. Andrea Warner-Czyz seeks to learn more about how infants perceive sound. A new position at UT Dallas will help her expand that research and share her knowledge with students. Warner-Czyz is now an assistant professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences after spending the past seven years as a post-doctoral researcher and instructor in the school and at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders. During that time, she devoted much of her energy to understanding how speech perception emerges in infants and children with hearing loss. “Now that I am a faculty member, I will have more flexibility to explore multiple factors that impact how infants and young children perceive spectrally degraded speech,” she said. “Establishing collaborations within and across departments – as well as with the off-campus community – will lead to multiple perspectives and theories explaining emergence of speech perception with an impoverished signal.”

New UT Dallas research indicates that children and adolescents with hearing loss experience higher rates of peer victimization, or bullying, than children with typical hearing.
In the study, approximately 50 percent of the adolescents with hearing loss said they were picked on in at least one way in the past year. Previous studies show about 28 percent of adolescents in the general population report being bullied.
“I thought more children and adolescents with hearing loss would report getting picked on, but I did not expect the rates to be twice as high as the general population,” said
Dr. Andrea Warner-Czyz, an assistant professor in the
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and a researcher at the
Callier Center for Communication Disorders.

In a new, multisite study of deaf children with cochlear implants, UT Dallas researchers have found that children with either no exposure or limited exposure to sign language end up with better auditory, speaking and reading skills later. The paper is one of the first nationwide longitudinal studies of how sign language exposure affects young cochlear implant recipients.
The topic of whether children with cochlear implants should begin their communication experience with sign language has been controversial. However,
Dr. Andrea Warner-Czyz, assistant professor in the
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) and co-author of the study, said the research clarifies outcomes for such decisions.

A new study from a
UT Dallasresearcher demonstrates the importance of considering developmental differences when creating programs for cochlear implants in infants.
Dr. Andrea Warner-Czyz, assistant professor in the
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, recently published the research in the
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
“This is the first study to show that infants process degraded speech that simulates a cochlear implant differently than older children and adults, which begs for new signal processing strategies to optimize the sound delivered to the cochlear implant for these young infants,” Warner-Czyz said.