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Curriculum Vitae

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Education - 

Doctor of Philosophy

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences

Minor: General Linguistics

Dissertation: The dynamics of disordered speech: Navigating acoustic and perceptual             variability across talker demographics and listener experience

Advisor: Tessa Bent, Ph.D.

2021 - Present

Master of Arts

Ball State University

Muncie, IN

Speech-Language Pathology

Thesis: Graduate and Undergraduate Perspectives of the Graduate Admissions Process in Speech-Language Pathology

Thesis Advisor: Barry T. Wagner, Ph.D.

2018 - 2020

Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science, Speech-Language Pathology

Ball State University, 2018

2014 - 2018

Memberships, Licenses, & Certifications - 

  • Licensee, Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology Board of Indiana | 2021 - Present

  • Member CCC-SLP, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | 2021 - Present

  • Member, Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association | 2020 - Present

  • Student Member, Acoustical Society of America | 2021 - Present

  • Student Member, American Association for Applied Linguistics | 2023 - Present

Awards & Honors -

Oct. 2025 – Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Dept. Research Grant ($500)

Aug. 2025 – Distinguished Early Career Professional, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

May 2024 – James E. West Graduate Fellowship, Acoustical Society of America ($62,000 over 2 yrs.)

Feb. 2024 – Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Dept. Research Grant ($500)

Oct. 2023 – Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Dept. Research Grant ($500)

April 2023 – 2022 Fred W. Householder Best Student Paper Award in Linguistics ($700)

April 2023 – Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Dept. Research Grant ($500)

April 2023 – Groups STEM Summer Research Experience Program Grant ($1000)

April 2022 – Larry and Marty Humes Student Research Travel Award ($600)

April 2022 – Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award ($600)

Nov. 2019 – Speech Pathology and Audiology Departmental Travel Award ($1,500)

Sep. 2018 – Speech Pathology and Audiology Departmental Travel Award ($1,500)

May 2018 – Ball State University Keys/Litten/Smith Award for Excellence in Research ($250)

Nov. 2017 – Speech Pathology and Audiology Departmental Travel Award ($1,500)

Publications - 

Bent, T., Henry, M., Henry, J., & Holt, R. F. (Submitted, Nov. 2025). Perception of accent distance by children and adults: Identifying acoustic-phonetic parameters using machine learning. Speech Communication

2025

Holt, R. F., Bent, T., Lind-Combs, H., & Henry, M. (Submitted, Oct. 2025). Intelligibility of unfamiliar accents in quiet and noise develops into adolescence. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

2025

Henry, M., & Bent, T. (2025). Let’s Be Friends: Peer Perceptions of Disordered Speech in Preschool and Early School-Aged Children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-25-00093

2025

Tsai, T.-P., Bent, T., & Henry, M. (2025). How vocal timbre impacts word identification and listening effort in traffic-shaped noises. JASA Express Letters, 5(7), 075204. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0037043

2025

Henry, M., Bent, T., & Holt, R. F. (2025). “They sure aren’t from around here”: Children’s perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English. Journal of Child Language, 52(4), 762–785. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000138

2025

Bent, T., Henry, M., Holt, R. F., & Lind-Combs, H. (2024). Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents. Journal of Phonetics, 107, 101357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101357

2024

Talks -

Henry, M., & Bent, T. (2025). Examining peer’s friendship preferences and social judgments of children with SSDs. [Technical presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, USA.

2025

Henry, M., Koehlinger-Wolf, K., & Wade, C. (2025). State-level efforts addressing the workload crisis in Indiana schools: Roundtables, clinician perceptions, and continued advocacy  [Technical presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, USA.

2025

Henry, M., Dickerson, J., Lind-Combs, H., Bent, T., Holt, R. F., & (2024). Linguistic complexity and noise influence intelligibility for L1- and L2-accented English. [Platform Presentation]. American Speech-Language & Hearing Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, USA.

2024

Bent, T., Henry, M., & Holt, R. F. (2024). Accent Distance Perception in Children and Adults. [Spoken presentation]. The Psychonomic Society's 65th Annual Meeting, New York City, New York, USA.

2024

Henry, M., & Bent, T. (2024). Exploring Dynamic Changes in Vowel Measures for Children with Speech Sound Disorders. [Poster presentation]. 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Champaign, IL, USA.

2024

Morrisette, M., Henry, M. & Bent, T. (2024). Practical prompting: AI solutions for evidence-based phonological intervention. [Platform presentation]. Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

2024

Henry, M. & Bent, T. (2024). Examining the effect of disordered speech on social judgments in children. [Individual paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Houston, TX, USA.

2024

Wagner, B., Henry, M., & Shaffer, L. (2018) Multiple symbol production
abilities: Does linear symbol reconstruction impact performance?
[Platform
presentation] AAC Institute Annual Clinical Research Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA.

2018

Posters - 

Bent, T., Holt, R., Sershen, M., Reusch, P., Hale, R., Ingram, A. C., & Henry, M. (2025). How children spontaneously describe talkers from speech. [Poster presentation]. Joint Meeting  - 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI, USA.

2025

Bent, T., Henry, M., Kilgore, R., Merritt, B.,  Tsai, TP, & Xanders, A. (2025). How talker and listener gender identity impact spontaneous speech descriptors. [Poster presentation]. Joint Meeting  - 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 25th International Congress on Acoustics, New Orleans, LA, USA.

2025

Henry, M., Bent, T., Hemrajani, P., & Obrecht, C. (2025). Does clinical experience impact listeners’ perception of disordered speech?. [Poster presentation]. Joint Meeting  - 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 25th International Congress on Acoustics, New Orleans, LA, USA.

2025

Henry, M., Bent, T., Holt R. F., & Lind-Combs, H. (2024). The contribution of suprasegmental cues to perceived L1 and L2 accent distance. [Poster presentation]. Joint Meeting  - 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/Acoustics Week in Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

2024

Lind-Combs, H., Holt, R. F., Bent, T., & Henry, M. (2024) How rhythmic cues influence perception of accent distance across L1 and L2 English speakers. [Poster presentation]. Joint Meeting  - 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/Acoustics Week in Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

2024

Henry, M., Branson, S., Kilaras, G., & Bent, T. (2024) Does sentence type affect the perception of accent distance? [Platform presentation]. Annual Convention of the Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

2024

Henry, M., Morrisette, M., & Morris, K. G., (2023) Solving the problem: A scoping review of problem-based learning in speech-language pathology graduate programs.  [Poster presentation]. American Speech-Language & Hearing Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, USA.

2023

Henry, M., Diekhoff, M., & Lulich, S. M. (2023). Speech acoustics in preschool-aged children with and without speech sound disorders. [Poster presentation]. 28th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

2023

Henry, M., Robinson, A., Dong, X., Miller, J., Miller-Broomfield, C., Sosa, E., & Nesbitt, M. (2023). Rhoticity in Black Boston: Examining the effects of ethnicity and ethnic orientation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(3_supplement), A368. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019192

2023

Henry, M., Bent, T., & Holt, R. F. (2022). Children’s sensitivity to accent strength of native and nonnative varieties. [Poster presentation]. 27th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, St Louis, MO.

2022

Henry, M., Bent, T., & Holt, R. F. (2022). Children’s perception of accent distance
for native and nonnative varieties.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
151(4), A276–A276. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0011325

2022

Henry, M. & Wagner, B. (2019) Assessing visuospatial & temporal working
memory during direct selection & visual-linear scanning with pictographic displays.

[Poster presentation]. American Speech-Language & Hearing Association Annual
Convention, Orlando, FL, USA.

2019

Wagner, B., Henry, M., & Shaffer, L. (2017) Sequential production abilities

with multiple-symbol utterances: Implications for redesigning speech generating devices

(SGDs) for children. [Poster presentation]. Annual Convention of the American Speech-

Language & Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

2017

Service - 

Member, Continuing Education Board, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

2026 - 2028

Chair, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Subcommittee, Graduate Student Council, American Association of Applied Linguistics

2024 - Present

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Subcommittee Member, Graduate Student Council, American Association of Applied Linguistics

2024 - Present

Member, Outreach Committee, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University

2025 -Present

Member, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University

2023 - 2025

Mentor, IU Groups STEM Summer Research Experience Program

2023

Member, SPHS PhD Organization Colloquium Planning Committee

2022 - Present

Treasurer, Indiana University SPHS PhD Organization

2022 - 2023

Member, Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Consumer Advisory Council

2021 - Present

Technical Proficiencies - 

  • Programming Languages Known:

    • R**

    • Matlab** 

    • Python

    • Java/JavaScript

    • Praat

  • Statistical Analysis Tools:

    • RStudio**

    • Python (Pandas, NumPy, MatPlotLib)

    • MATLAB

  • Experimental Design Tools:

    • jsPsych**​

    • PsychoPy

    • MATLAB

**preferred tools/platforms

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