Kate Dunckley, PhD, CCC-A

Kathleen (Kate) T. Dunckley, PhD, CCC-A, is an assistant professor and the assistant audiology clinical education manager in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences. As a licensed and nationally certified audiologist, she has facilitated student clinical placements and supervised audiology students in the clinic at Rush University since 2013. Her primary responsibilities are in teaching, clinical placements and supervising students’ independent research projects. Her teaching and research interests focus on the evaluation of the peripheral auditory system, signal processing and calibration. Previous projects have examined the ability of objective measures to detect ototoxic-induced changes to hearing, effect of headphone placement on extended high frequency sensitivity and the effect of stimulus parameters on otoacoustic emission phase and level behavior. Dunckley has served as a past-treasurer for the Illinois Academy of Audiology and currently serves as a trustee and consultant for Chicago Tap Theatre’s “Feel the Rhythm” project, which offers tap lessons to hearing impaired children. She is a member of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and the Auditory Society of America.