Ingrid M. Blood, Ph.D., CCC-A

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Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 1978
Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Contact Information
401C Ford Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-6131
Fax: 814-865-3759
i2b@psu.edu
Courses Taught
CSD 101, (GHA) Preventing Hearing Loss
CSD 433, Aural Rehabilitation
CSD 497H, Genetics and Hearing Loss
PSU 014, First-Year Seminar
Research Interests
Pediatric audiology, genetics of hearing loss, early hearing detection and intervention, psycho-social aspects of communication sciences and disorders; auditory dysfunction in children and adults who stutter; curriculum reform in undergraduate education.
Examples of Collaborative Projects
Educating Physicians In their Communities Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EPIC-EHDI) is an outreach project designed to educate the medical community on Pennsylvania's Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention program. The recently introduced law(Act 89-2001) requires newborns to be screened within thirty days, diagnosed within three months, and treated within six months consistent with the Healthy People 2010 objective on universal newborn hearing screening. The Pennsylvania Department of Health(DOH) and the Pennsylvania Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics(PA-AAP) have initiated a three-year project to educate practitioners about referral, follow-up, diagnosis, treatment, and early intervention for infants with potential or identified hearing loss as a result of early screening.
Project MOSAIC (Multiplying Opportunities for Services and Access for Immigrant Children)  Dr. Gordon Blood and Dr. Ingrid Blood received funding from the US Department of Education for a new comprehensive preservice master’s level training program for Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) to provide high quality, evidenced based services to children from immigrant circumstances who are English language learners (ELL) with communication and language disabilities, especially in rural areas. Immigrant children who are ELL are the largest growing student population in the US and their needs are currently not being met. This project will also alleviate the current and predicted shortages of SLPs. The project will offer unique academic courses, on-line seminars, interdisciplinary assessments and teaming, capstone research experiences, and field placements in rural and impoverished areas.
Recent Publications
Boyle, M. P., Blood, G. W., Blood, I. M. (in press). Effects of perceived causality on perceptions of persons who stutter, Journal of Fluency Disorders.
Blood, G. W., Mamett, C., Gordon, R., & Blood, I. M. (in press). Written Language Disorders: speech language pathologists' training, knowledge and confidence. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.
Blood, G. W., Blood, I., Kreiger, J., O’Connor, S., & Qualls, C. D. (2009). Double jeopardy for children who stutter: Race and coexisting disorders. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 30(3), 131-141.
Betz Roth, I., Blood, G. W., & Blood, I. M. (2008). University students' perceptions of preschool and kindergarten children who stutter. Journal of Communication Disorders, 41, 259–273.
Blood, I. M., Cohen, L., & Blood, G. W. (2008). Job burnout in educational audiologists: The value of work experience.Journal of Educational Audiology, 14, 7–13.
Blood, I. M., Cohen, L., & Blood, G. W. (2007). Job burnout, geographic location, and social interaction among educational audiologists. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 105, 1203–1208.
Blood, G. W., Blood, I. M., Maloney, K., Weaver, A., & Shaffer, B. (2007). Exploratory study of children who stutter and do not stutter on a visual attention test.Communication Disorders Quarterly, 28, 145–153.
Blood, G. W., Blood, I. M., Maloney, K., Meyer, C. & Qualls, C. D. (2007). Anxiety levels in adolescents who stutter. Journal of Communication Disorders, 40, 452–469.
Blood, G. W. & Blood, I. M. (2007). Preliminary study of self-reported experience of physical aggression and bullying of boys who stutter: Relation to increased anxiety. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 104, 1060–1066.
Blood, G. W. & Blood, I. M. (2007). Job burnout in educational audiologists: D-E-S-E-R-V-E Better. Educational Audiology Review, 24 (3).