Faculty: Christopher Dromey
Title
Professor
Department:
ComD
Contact Information
Office: 133 TLRB
Phone: 801-422-6461
Email: nope@dromey@byu.edumsn.com
Brief Biography
BA Brigham Young University
MA State University of New York at Buffalo
PhD University of Colorado at Boulde
Teaching Interests
ComD 421 Speech Science
ComD 675 - Motor Speech Disorders
Research Interests
Normal and disordered voice
Speech motor control
Motor speech disorders
Divided attention task interactions
Acoustic, aerodynamic and kinematic analysis of speech production
Speech measurement technologies
Awards
Fellowship of the Association
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2020 - Present
Steven M. Rose Teaching and Learning Fellowship
Brigham Young University
2015 - 2017
University Professorship
Brigham Young University
2018 - 2022
Nancy Peery Marriott Outstanding Scholar
McKay School of Education
2008 - 2009
Selected Publications
Effects of Background Noise on Speech and Language in Young Adults
- Authors: Harmon, Tyson Gordon; Dromey, Christopher David; Nelson, Brenna; Chapman, Kacy
- Publication Date: 2021
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Volume: 64
- Issue: 4
- Abstract: click to view
Kinematic and acoustic changes to vowels and diphthongs in bite block speech
- Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Richins, Michelle; Low, Tanner
- Publication Date: 2021
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Volume: 64
Age-Related Changes in Speech and Voice: Spectral and Cepstral Measures
- Authors: Taylor, Sammi; Dromey, Christopher David; Nissen, Shawn L; Tanner, Kristine Marie; Eggett, Dennis Lee; Corbin-Lewis, Kim
- Publication Date: 2020
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Examining acoustic and kinematic measures of articulatory working space: Effects of speech intensity.
- Authors: Whitfield, Jason; Dromey, Christopher David; Palmer, Panika
- Publication Date: 2018
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Effects of voice-sparing cricotracheal resection on phonation in women
- Authors: Tanner, Kristine Marie; Dromey, Christopher David; Berardi, Mark; Mattei, Lisa; Pierce, Jenny; Wisco, Jonathan Jayme; Hunter, Eric; Smith, Marshall
- Publication Date: 2017
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: The Laryngoscope
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: New York, NY
- Country: USA
- Volume: 127
- ISSN: 1531-4995
- URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1531-4995
Laryngeal desiccation challenge and nebulized isotonic saline in healthy male singers and nonsingers: Effects on acoustic, aerodynamic, and perceptual measures
- Authors: Tanner, Kristine Marie; Fujiki, Robert; Dromey, Christopher David; Merrill, Ray M; Robb, Whitney; Kendall, Katherine; Hopkin, J Arden; Channell, Ron W; Sivasankar, M
- Publication Date: 2016
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Voice
- Publisher: Elsevier
- City: Philadelphia, PA
- Country: US
- ISSN: 08921997
- URL: https://www.jvoice.org
Exploring the clinical utility of relative fundamental frequency (RFF) as an objective measure of vocal hyperfunction
- Authors: Roy, Nelson; Fetrow, Rebecca; Merrill, Ray M; Dromey, Christopher David
- Publication Date: 2016
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Understanding the role of subsystems in speech and their interactions in evaluating symptomatology in motor speech disorders
- Authors: Dromey, Christopher David
- Publication Date: 2016
- Publication Type: Book, Chapter/ Section in Scholarly Book
- Publication Journal: Speech motor control in normal and disordered speech: Future developments in theory and methodology
- Publisher: American Speech-Language Hearing Association
- City: Rockville, MD
Bidirectional interference between speech and non-speech tasks in younger, middle-aged and older adults
- Authors: Bailey, Dallin; Dromey, Christopher David
- Publication Date: 2015
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Volume: 58
Effects of age and syntactic complexity on speech motor performance
- Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Boyce, Kelsey; Channell, Ron W
- Publication Date: 2014
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Volume: 57
- Issue: 6
The effects of practice on the concurrent performance of a speech and postural task in persons with Parkinson disease and healthy controls
- Authors: Foreman, K; Sondrup, Stuart; Dromey, Christopher David; Jarvis, Eon; Nissen, Shawn L; Dibble, Leland
- Publication Date: 2013
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Parkinson's Disease
- Publisher: Hindawi
- Volume: 2013
Electropalatographic measures of stop consonants in speakers with and without apraxia of speech on repeated sampling occasions
- Authors: Mauszycki, Shannon; Wambaugh, Julie; Dromey, Christopher David
- Publication Date: 2012
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology
- Volume: 20
- Issue: 4
Frequency response of synthetic vocal fold models with linear and nonlinear material properties
- Authors: Shaw, Stephanie; Thomson, Scott L; Dromey, Christopher David; Smith, Simeon
- Publication Date: 2012
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Volume: 55
Traditional treatment and altered auditory feedback lead to intelligibility benefits in a subset of speakers with Parkinson disease
- Authors: Dromey, Christopher David
- Publication Date: 2011
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Evidence-based Communication Assessment and Intervention
- Volume: 5
- Issue: 1
Bidirectional interference between speech and postural stability in individuals with Parkinson?s disease
- Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Jarvis, Eon; Sondrup, Stuart; Nissen, Shawn L; Foreman, K.; Dibble, Leland
- Publication Date: 2010
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
- Volume: 12
Laryngeal articulatory coupling in three speech disorders
- Authors: Dromey, Christopher David
- Publication Date: 2010
- Publication Type: Book, Chapter/ Section in Scholarly Book
- Publication Journal: Speech motor control: New developments in basic and applied research
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford
Loud speech leads to greater intelligibility improvements than amplification of habitual speech in Parkinson disease
- Authors: Dromey, Christopher David
- Publication Date: 2010
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention
- Volume: 4
Volitional Control of Vibrato in Singers
- Authors: Carter, Neisha; Hopkin, J Arden; Dromey, Christopher David
- Publication Date: 2010
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Singing
- Publisher: National Association of Teachers of Singing
- City: Jacksonville, FL
- Country: USA
- Volume: 67
- Issue: 1
- URL: https://www.nats.org
- Abstract: click to view
Articulatory changes in muscle tension dysphonia: Evidence of vowel space expansion following manual circumlaryngeal therapy.
- Authors: Roy, Nelson; Nissen, Shawn L; Dromey, Christopher David; Sapir, Shimon
- Publication Date: 2009
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Journal of Communication Disorders
- Volume: 42