Mark VanDam, PhD

• Postdoc, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 2007-2009
• PhD, Linguistics, Indiana University, 2007
• MA, Linguistics, Indiana University, 2003
• BA, English, German, Calvin College, 1999

Courses Taught

• SHS 501 – Research Methods
• SHS 375 – Phonetics
• EBM 503 – Scholarly Projects
• SHS 378 – Speech and Hearing Sciences
• SHS 490 – Advanced Topics in Speech Science

Interests

• Acoustic phonetics
• Childhood deafness
• Development of speech and language
• Parkinson’s disease
• Speech production/articulation/motor movement
• Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
• Speech perception, spoken language processing
• Quantitative and complex modeling
• Linguistics, computational linguistics

Ingvalson, E., Grieco-Calub, T., VanDam, M., & Perry, L. K.  (2026).  Response and non-response in a bound morpheme elicitation task by Deaf/Hard of Hearing children.  Journal of Speech Language, and Hearing Research.

Jenson, D., Thornton, D., VanDam, M.  (2025).  The influence of age, listener sex, and speaker sex on the McGurk effect.  Perception: 1-34.  https://doi.org/10.1177/03jens010066251386575    

Peter, B., Davis, J., Bruce, L., Finestack, L., Kornelis, M., Eng, L., Kim, Y., Scherer, N., Potter, N., VanDam, M., Thompson, L., Loveall, S., Stoel-Gammon, C., Raaz, C., Armstrong-Heimsoth, A., & Buckley, S.  (2025).  Translating the power of precision medicine into the world of communication disorders.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(11): 5174-5189.  https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00077

VanDam, M., Brock, A.S., Bass-Ringdahl, S.M., Thompson, L., Wilson-Fowler, E., Jenson, D., McCaslin, C., Johnson, K.T., & De Palma, P.  (2025).  Conversation initiation in families with a toddler who is deaf or hard of hearing.  American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 34(3): 1256-1268.   https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-24-00254

VanDam, M., Warlaumont, A.S., & MacWhinney, B.  (2025).  HomeBank: An online repository of daylong child-centered audio recordings.  In P. Milin (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3^rd Edition.  Elsevier. http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00341-0

Peter, B., Finestack, L., Loveall, S. J., Thompson, L., Bruce, L., Scherer, N., Stoel-Gammon, C., Davis, J., Potter, N., VanDam, M., Eng, L. & Buckley, S.  (2025).  Babble Boot Camp for infants with Down syndrome:  Piloting a proactive, caregiver-led intervention designed to boost earliest speech and language skills.  American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 34(3): 1023-1040.  https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-002

McGonigle, E., VanDam, M., Wilkinson, C. L., & Johnson, K.T. (2024).  Benchmarking automatic speech recognition technology for natural language samples of children with and without developmental delays.  IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, paper ID 6694. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC53108.2024.10782773

Kondaurova, M. V., VanDam, M., Zheng, Q., & Welikson, B.  (2023).  Fathers’ unmodulated prosody in child-directed speech.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(6): 3556-3567.  https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0022571

Ingvalson, E. M., Perry, L. K., VanDam, M., & Grieco-Calub, T. M.  (2023).  Comparing scores on the PPVT and ROWPVT in preschoolers with and without hearing loss.  American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 32(4): 1610-1619.  https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00352

Armstrong-Heimsoth, A., Monroe, A., Cupp, C., Potter, N., VanDam, M., & Peter, B.  (2023).  Motor Milestones: Sensory motor trends of young children with classic galactosemia.  Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention, 17(2): 216-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/19411243.2023.2192206

Potter, N. L., VanDam, M., Davis, J., Eng, L., Finestack, L., Heinlen, V., Schrock, C., Stoel-Gammon, C., Seltzer, R., Thompson, L., & Peter, B.  (2023).  Virtual post-intervention speech and language assessment of toddler and preschool participants in Babble Boot Camp.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(9S): 3327-3339. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00687

Peter, B., Bruce, L., Finestack, L., Dinu, V., Wilson, M., Klein-Seetharaman, J., Lewis, C.R., Braden, B.B., Tang, Y., Scherer, N., VanDam, M., & Potter, N.  (2023).  Precision medicine as a new frontier in speech-language pathology: How applying insights from behavior genomics can improve outcomes in communication disorders.  American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 32(4): 1397-1412.  https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00205

Finestack, L. H., Potter, N., VanDam, M., Davis, J., Bruce, L., Sherer, N., Eng, L., & Peter, B.  (2022).  Feasibility of a proactive parent-implemented communication intervention delivered via telepractice for children with classic galactosemia.  American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 31(6): 2527-2538.  https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00107

Peter, B., Davis, J., Finestack, L., Stoel-Gammon, C., VanDam, M., Bruce, L., Kim, Y., Eng, L., Cotter, S., Landis, E., Beames, S., Scherer, N., Knerr, I., Williams, D., Schrock, C., Potter, N.  (2022).  Translating principles of precision medicine into speech-language pathology: Clinical trial of a proactive speech and language intervention for infants with classic galactosemia. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, 3(3), 100119.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100119

VanDam, M., Thompson, L., Wilson-Fowler, E., Campanella, S., Wolfenstein, K., & De Palma, P.  (2022).  Conversation initiation of mothers, fathers, and toddlers in their natural home environment.  Computer Speech & Language, 73, 101338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2021.101338

Kondaurova, M. V., Zheng, Q., VanDam, M., & Kinney, K. (2022). Vocal turn-taking in families with children with and without hearing loss.  Ear & Hearing, 43(3): 883-898. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001135

Peter, B., Davis, J., Cotter, S., Belter, A., Williams, E., Stumpf, M., Bruce, L., Eng, L., Kim, Y., Finestack, L., Stoel-Gammon, C., Williams, D., Scherer, N., VanDam, M., Potter, N. (2021).  Towards preventing speech and language disorders of known genetic origin: First post-intervention results of Babble Boot Camp in children with classic galactosemia.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 30(6): 2616-2634. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00098

Potter, N. L., Bajwa, A., Wilson, E. H., VanDam, M.  (2021).  Developmental changes in tongue strength, swallow pressures, and tongue endurance.  Dysphagia, 36: 854-863. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00455-020-10200-4

Ingvalson, E. M., Grieco-Calub, T. M., Perry, L. K., VanDam, M.  (2020).  Rethinking emergent literacy in children with hearing loss.  Frontiers in Psychology, 11(39). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00039

Peter, B., Potter, N., Davis, J., Donenfeld-Peled, I., Finestack, L., Stoel-Gammon, C., Lien, K., Bruce, L., Vose, C., Eng, L., Yokoyama, H., Olds, D., & VanDam, M. (2020). Toward a paradigm shift from deficit-based to proactive speech and language treatment: Randomized pilot trial of the Babble Boot Camp in infants with classic galactosemia. F1000, 8:271.  https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.18062.5 

VanDam, M., & Yoshinaga-Itano, C. (2019).  Use of the LENA Autism Screen with children
who are deaf or hard of hearing.  Medicina, 55(495). https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina55080495

Potter, N. L., Nievergelt, Y., & VanDam, M. (2019).  Tongue strength in children with and without speech sound disorders.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 28(2): 612-622. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-18-0023

VanDam, M., & De Palma, P. (2019).  A modular, extensible approach to massive ecologically-valid behavioral data.  Behavior Research Methods, 51(4): 1754-1765.  https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1167-8

Lynch, G. T. F., James, S., & VanDam, M.  (2018).  Pupillary response and phenotype in ASD: Latency to constriction discriminates ASD from typically developing adolescents.  Autism Research, 11(2): 364-375. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1888

VanDam, M., & Silbert, N. H. (2016). Fidelity of automatic speech processing for adult and child talker classifications. PLOS ONE, 11(8): e0160588. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160588

VanDam, M., Warlaumont, A. S., Bergelson, E., Cristia, A., Soderstrom, M., De Palma, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2016). HomeBank, an online repository of daylong child-centered audio recordings. Seminars in Speech and Language, 37: 128-142. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1580745

VanDam, M., Oller, D. K., Ambrose, S. E., Gray, S., Richards, J. A., Xu, D., Gilkerson, J., Silbert, N. H., & Moeller, M. P. (2015). Automated vocal analysis of children with hearing loss and their typical and atypical peers.  Ear & Hearing, 36(4): e146-e152.  https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000138

• vandammark.com
• HomeBank
• Daylong Audio Recordings of Children’s Linguistic Environments, (DARCLE)
• Washington Center for Muscle Biology (WCMB)
• Hearing Oral Program of Excellence HOPE of Spokane