Rate My Professor Mary Fagan

Dr. Fagan’s research interests center on infant vocalization, speech development, mother-infant interactions, vocabulary acquisition in hearing infants and those with cochlear implants, prelinguistic consonant production, and auditory feedback effects. She directs the Early Language and Cognitive Development Lab at Chapman and maintains a concurrent affiliation with the Center for Hearing Research at the University of California, Irvine. Key publications feature “Vocal imitation between mothers and their children with cochlear implants” (Infancy, 2020), “Vocal turn-taking between mothers and their children with cochlear implants” (Ear and Hearing, 2020), “What mothers do after infants vocalize: Implications for vocal development or word learning?” (Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019), “Exploring in silence: Hearing and deaf infants explore objects differently before cochlear implantation” (Infancy, 2019), “Why repetition? Repetitive babbling, auditory feedback, and cochlear implantation” (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2015), and “Hearing experience and receptive vocabulary development in deaf children with cochlear implants” (Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2010). She has received the Chapman University Faculty Opportunity Fund award (2021) for studying the dynamics of mother-infant interactions in profound hearing loss, Crean College Pandemic Research Relief Award (2021), NIH/NICHD Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research (2018), NIH Competitive Loan Repayment Program awards (2007-2011), Mizzou Advantage Faculty Interdisciplinary Development Award (2014), and American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Research Grant (2007).