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

photo of Ingrid Blood

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

Contact Information

401C Ford Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

(814) 863-6131
Fax: (814) 865-3759

i2b@psu.edu

Courses Taught

CSD 101, 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 Physician 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 30 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, 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 PRIDE: PReventing Illiteracy and Disabilities Through Early-Intervention (G. Blood Principal Investigator, I. Blood and C. Hammer Co-Principal Investigator). This will be a four year training grant funded by the US Department of Education. The purpose of this project is to implement a new comprehensive preservice master's level training program for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to provide quality services to children with communication and literacy problems, especially those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, specifically in rural areas.

Recent Publications

Betz Roth, I., Blood, G. W., & Blood, I. M. (in press). University students' perceptions of pre-school and kindergarten children who stutter.  Journal of Communication Disorders.

Blood, I. M., Cohen, L., & Blood, G. W. (in press). Job burnout in educational audiologists: The value of work experience.  Journal of Educational Audiology. 

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).