Brittan Barker

Publications | Abstracts

• Barker, B., Meyer, L., (2009). The effect of accent on toddlers’ story comprehension and word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Book Chapters

• Barker, B., (2024). Cochlear implants: Introduction to audiologic rehabilitation: Facilitating communication across the lifespan. Plural Publishing *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Barker, B., (2025). Exploring the stories of parents’ experiences working to insure special education services for their children with hearing loss during COVID-19 in the United States. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups.
• Barker, B., (2025). The value of narrative medicine in hearing healthcare: A review of selected literature and call for research. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
• Barker, B., (2024). Experiences of people with unexplained hearing concerns seeking hearing healthcare in the United States. . International Journal of Audiology, 1-10. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2404150
• Barker, B., (2024). Exploring the stories of deaf and hard-of-hearing students’ experiences with real-time captioning services in higher education. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 29, 424-432. doi: 10.1093/jdsade/enae019
• Barker, B.A, (2024). Reading skills and background noise in autistic and non-autistic children: A pilot study. Contemporary School Psychology, 28, 283-295. doi: 10.1007/s40688-023-00450-y
• Robinson, T.L, Brown Bowman, E., Barker, B.A, (2023). Exploring the stories of parents’ experiences with infant hearing-loss screening and diagnosis in the United States. Ear & Hearing, 44, 518-529. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001294
• Scharp, K.M, Alverez, C.F, Barker, B., (2023). Conceptualizing other-resilience: exploring how hearing parents enact resilience for themselves and their children who use cochlear implants. Human Communication Research, doi: 10.1093/hcr/hqad015
• Barker, B., Scharp, K.M, Chandler, K., Brown Bowman, E., (2021). Exploring the types of stories hearing parents tell about rearing their children who use cochlear implants. Ear & Hearing, 42, 1284-1294. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001011
• Scharp, K., Barker, B., (2021). “I have to social norm this”: Making meaning of hearing loss from the perspective of adults who use hearing aids. Health Communication, 6, 774-781. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2020.1712523
• Buntrock, M.S, Barker, B., Gurries, M.M, Barrett, T., (2021). The Effect of Talker Familiarity on Sentence Recognition Accuracy in Complex Noise.. Experimental psychology, 68:1, 49-55. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000509
• Barker, B., Scharp, K., Long, S., Ritter, C.R, (2020). Narratives of identity: Understanding the experiences of adults with hearing loss who use hearing aids. International Journal of Audiology, doi: 10.1080/14992027.2019
• Ritter, C., Barker, B., Scharp, K., (2020). Using attribution theory to explore the reasons adults with hearing loss do not to use their hearing aids. PLOSOne, 15, e0238468. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238468
• Barker, B., Elliott, E.M, (2019). The role of talker familiarity in auditory distraction. Experimental Psychology, 66, 1-11. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000425
• Barker, B., Jones, H., Daquanno, C.G, (2018). Supplemental Videos for the Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale. The Volta Review, 118, 41-59. doi: 10.17955/tvr.118.1.2.797
• Scharp, K., Barker, B., Rucker, S.N, Jones, H.D, (2018). Exploring the identities of hearing parents who chose cochlear implantation for their children with hearing loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 23:2, 131-139. doi: 10.1093/deafed/enx060
• Barker, B., Donovan, N.J, Schubert, A., Walker, E.A, (2017). Using Rasch Analysis to examine the item-level psychometrics of the Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scales. , 20, 130-143. doi: 10.1080/2050571X.2016.1243747
• Munoz, K., Nelson, L.J, Barker, B., (2016). A review of Internet resources related to spoken language intervention for Spanish-speaking parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention, 1, 72-77. doi: 10.15142/T3KG6Q
• Barker, B., Meyer Turner, L., (2015). Influences of foreign accent on preschoolers’ word recognition and story comprehension. Applied Psycholinguistics, 36, 1111-1132. doi: 10.1017/S0142716414000058
• Barker, B., Kenworthy, M.H, Walker, E.A, (2011). How we do it: employment of listening-development criteria during assessment of infants who use cochlear implants.. Cochlear implants international, 12:1, 57-9.
• Tomblin, J.B, Barker, B., Hubbs, S., (2007). Developmental constraints on language development in children with cochlear implants. International journal of audiology, 46:9, 512-23. doi: 10.1080/14992020701383043
• Tomblin, J.B, Barker, B., Spencer, L.J, Zhang, X., Gantz, B.J, (2005). The effect of age at cochlear implant initial stimulation on expressive language growth in infants and toddlers. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 48:4, 853-67. doi: 1092-4388/05/4804-0853
• Barker, B., Newman, R.S, (2004). Listen to your mother! The role of talker familiarity in infant streaming.. Cognition, 94:2, B45-53.
• Spencer, L.J, Barker, B., Tomblin, J.B, (2003). Exploring the language and literacy outcomes of pediatric cochlear implant users.. Ear and hearing, 24:3, 236-47.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Technical Reports

Research Reports

• Barker, B., Newman, R., (2003). When mother speaks…. Infants to Adolescents: Research Update

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Magazine/Trade Publications

• Barker, B., Ritter, C., (2020). Better understanding the experiences of adults use hearing aids. The Hearing Journal *
• Barker, B., (2020). How storylistening promotes family-centered care for children with cochlear implants: An interview with Dr. Brittan Barker. The Hearing Journal *

Newsletter

• Barker, B., (2012). Editor’s Corner: Focus on early identification and intervention in deaf children with cochlear implants.. LSHA News *
• Spencer, L.J, Barker, B., Tomblin, J.B, (2003). Children with cochlear implants reach critical literacy milestone. NECCI News *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.