Shruti Deshpande, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

 

Dr. Shruti Deshpande is an Associate Professor and a Vincentian Research Fellow (2022-2024) at St. John’s University. She is an audiologist by training and her research focuses on auditory perception and processing. Since 2017, Dr. Deshpande has investigated accessible and affordable hearing health services for diverse and vulnerable populations.


Dr. Deshpande has published on issues at the intersection of audiology and social justice and has been a recipient of several prestigious internal and external grants. She is passionate about teaching and teaches undergraduate, MA (SLP), and Doctor of Audiology (AuD) courses.  She has mentored several undergraduate and graduate students on research projects. Dr. Deshpande’s students have presented at conferences, served as her coauthors on peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals, and have also secured student grants.
 

Dr. Deshpande established sustainable partnerships with community-based organizations and has led several successful academic service-learning (AS-L) projects. She was the recipient of the AS-L Faculty Award in 2021: https://www.stjohns.edu/about/faith-and-mission/academic-service learning;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XhhN3uZ_0cB2WbCOSFPAGCLuYZjmyGJ1/view

In September 2022, Dr. Deshpande was a recipient of the ‘The Faculty Research Consortium Excellence Award in Community Based Outcomes and Poverty Research’.

Dr. Deshpande’s has been appointed as a board member of the Multicultural Issues Board of the American Speech Language Hearing Association for a three-year term from January 1st, 2023, to December 31st, 2025.

 

 

Central Auditory Processing Disorder (AuD),
Electrophysiology-I (AuD)
Pediatric Audiology (AuD)
Introduction to Hearing Science (undergraduate)
Habilitation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child (SLP/MA course)

 

I. Peer-Reviewed

1. Deshpande, S. B., & Deshpande, A.K. (2022).  Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Socio-Economic Status Representation in US-Based Randomized Controlled Trials of Tinnitus: A Systematic Review. American Journal of Audiology (published online ahead of print: https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2022_AJA-21-00244).

2. Deshpande, S. B. (2021). Online, Asynchronous Hearing Education and Research Project for Ethnically Diverse Adolescents via Interprofessional Collaboration and Electronic Service-Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Study on the Needs and Challenges. American Journal of Audiology, 30(3), 505-517. [This paper was independently featured in the August 2021 issue of the Hearing Journal: Online Learning Program Improves Young Students' Attitudes o... : The Hearing Journal (lww.com)]

3. Deshpande, S. B. (December 2019). Awareness of the Profession of Audiology Among Ethnically Diverse Adolescents: A Pre-and Post-Education Study. American Journal of Audiology, 28(4), 964-972.

4. Deshpande, S. B., Deshpande, A. K., O'Brien, C. A. (graduate research mentee), & McMonagle, K. (undergraduate research mentee) (2019). A Study of the Portrayal of Information related to (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder on Social Media. Hearing Balance and Communication, 17 (2), 134-144.

5. Deshpande, A. K., Deshpande, S. B., & O'Brien, C. A. (graduate research mentee) (2019). Hyperacusis and social media trends. Hearing, Balance and Communication, 17(1), 1-11.

6. Deshpande, A. K., Deshpande, S. B., & O'Brien, C. (graduate research mentee) (2018). A study of social media utilization by individuals with tinnitus. American journal of audiology, 27(4), 559-569. [this publication was selected to be converted into a Continuing Education course by the American Speech Language Hearing Association for 205,000 ASHA members]

7. Brown, C. J., Jeon, E. K., Driscoll, V., Mussoi, B., Deshpande, S. B., Gfeller, K., & Abbas, P. J. (2017). Effects of Long-Term Musical Training on Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials. Ear and Hearing, 38(2), e74-e84.

8. Wang, Y., Pan, T., Deshpande, S. B., Ma, F. (2015). The relationship between EABR and auditory performance and speech intelligibility outcomes in pediatric cochlear implant recipients. American Journal of Audiology, 24, 226-234.

9. Deshpande, S. & Deshpande, A. K. (2014). “Relativity Applies to Physics, Not Ethics”: A Tutorial on Responsible Conduct of Research for Student Researchers in Communication Sciences and Disorders. eHearsay (Electronic Journal of the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association), 4(1), 25-34.

10. Balvalli, S., & Bantwal, A.R. (2011). Development of a Synthetic Sentence Identification Test in Hindi with Contralateral and Ipsilateral Competing Message Versions. Journal of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association, 25(1), 31-42.

II. Book Chapters

1. Deshpande, S. B., & Deshpande, A. K. (2020). Hidden Hearing Loss. In M. Valente & L. M. Valente (Ed.s), Adult Audiology Casebook (2nd edition). Thieme.

2. Deshpande, A. K., & Deshpande, S. B. (2020). Auditory Dyssynchrony: A Struggle to Understand Speech in Noise. In M. Valente & L. M. Valente (Ed.s), Adult Audiology Casebook (2nd edition). Thieme.

3. Tyler, R. S., Kileny, P., Deshpande, A. K., Deshpande, S. B., Dunn, C., Hansen, M., & Gantz, B. (2016). Future of Cochlear Implants. In A. T. Cacase, E. de Kleine, A. G. Holt, & P. van Dijk (Ed.s), Scientific Foundations of Audiology. San Diego: Plural Publishing, Inc.

4. Brown, C.J., Scheperle, J. A., Tejani, V. D., Jeon, E. K., Deshpande, S. B., & Abbas, P. J. (2016). Electrically Evoked Auditory Potentials. In L. S. Eisenberg (Ed.), Clinical Management of Children with Cochlear Implants. San Diego: Plural Publishing, Inc.

5. Deshpande, S., Houston, L., & Keith, R. W. (2013). Hearing Testing, Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR). In S. E. Kountakis (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (pp. 1151-1158). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

1. Source: St. John’s University
Personnel: Deshpande, S. B.; Wagner, M.; & Colodny, N.
Title: Summer at St. John’s
Amount: $500

2. Source: HearX Group Grant
Investigator: Deshpande, S. B.
Title: Feasibility assessment and initial validation of the hearX Self-Test Kit: A community-based approach.
Amount: $1026 (in-kind grant).

3.  Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Investigator: Deshpande, S. B. (Research Mentors: Dr. De Wet Swanepoel, Dr. Vinaya Manchaiah; Dr. Lata A. Krishnan; Teaching Mentor: Dr. Gary E. Martin)
Title: Advancing Academic-Research Careers (AARC) Award
Amount: $5,000 (extramural, funded, July 2021): https://www.asha.org/students/aarc-award-recipients/

4.  Source: AY 20-21 Research Fund for Untenured Faculty, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, SJU
Investigator: Deshpande, S. B.
Title: Development and Standardization of the UCAPI-R in Adolescents from Diverse Backgrounds
Amount: $1000 (not funded, May 2021)

45. Source: Coalition for Global Hearing Health
Investigator: Deshpande, S. B.
Title: World Hearing Day 2021: 21 Tips for Hearing Health in 2021
Amount: $800 (not funded, February 2021)

6.  Source: Global Online Learning Exchange, SJU
Investigator: Deshpande, S. B.
Title: A GOLE project with a goal of increasing Audiology’s visibility through Academic Service Learning (AS-L)
Amount: $2,500 (funded, 2020).

7. Source: Summer Support for Research, SJU
Investigator: Deshpande, S. B.
Title: Hearing Evaluation, Education and Conservation in Adolescents: A Mobile Health (mHealth) Community-based Project.
Amount: $10,000 (not funded, decision: April 2019)

8. Source- Course Hero- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching
Investigator- Deshpande, S.B.
Amount- $30,000 (not funded, decision: February 2019)

9. Source: Summer Support for Research, Office of Grants and Sponsored Research, SJU
Investigator: Deshpande, S. B.
Title: Novel, cost-effective approaches for the assessment and management of central auditory processing disorders (CAPD): A series of faculty-directed, student-led studies.
Amount: $10,000 (funded, May 2018)

10. Source- 30,000 Degrees Faculty Research Seed Grant
Investigators- Deshpande, S., Deshpande, A. K., & Thomas, J.
Title- Hearing conservation and ‘Audiology’ Education: A Path to 30,000 degrees on Staten Island.
Amount- $4,600 (funded, 2019-2022).

11. Source – Action on Hearing Loss
Investigators- Deshpande, A. K., Deshpande, S. B. & Ploran, E
Title – #ProtectNowHearLater - Assessing auditory processing abilities and effects of a novel hearing conservation strategy on listening habits of adolescents and young adults
Amount - £5,000 (not funded, submitted January 2018)

12. Source– Hearing Health Foundation’s Emerging Research Grant, December 2017
Investigators- Deshpande, A. K., & Deshpande, S. B.
Title- #ProtectNowHearLater – Assessing auditory processing abilities and effects of a novel hearing conservation strategy on listening habits of adolescents and young adults
Amount- $30,000 (not funded, submitted December 2017)

13. Source– Fahs-Beck Fund, November 2017
Investigators- Deshpande, A. K., & Deshpande, S. B.
Title- #ProtectNowHearLater - Effects of a novel hearing conservation strategy on listening habits and attitudes of adolescents and young adults
Amount- $20,000 (not funded, submitted December 2017)

14. Source- Academic Service-Learning (AS-L) Minigrant
Investigators- Deshpande, S. Deshpande, A. K. & Thomas, J.
Title- Hearing conservation project for Liberty Partnership Program’s high school students implemented through academic service learning.
Amount- $1,000 (funded, June 2017)

15. Source- Faculty Growth Grant
Investigator- Deshpande, S.B.
Title- ‘Smart’phone Teaching = Smart Teaching?
Amount- $1,500 (funded, May 2017)

16. Source- Dependent Care Subsidy - Travel Grant (Acoustical Society of America/ASA Women in Acoustics)
Investigator- Deshpande, S.B
Amount- $500 (funded, June 2017)

17. Source- Young Investigator Travel Grant (Acoustical Society of America)
Investigator- Deshpande, S.B.
Amount- $500 (not funded, May 2017)

18. Source- Richard and Camille Sinatra Endowment Fund (Faculty Consortium, VISA, St. John’s University)
Investigators: Deshpande, S. (80%), Deshpande, A. K. (10%), & Thomas, J. (10%)
Title- A sustainable hearing conservation project for Liberty Partnerships Program’s high school students implemented by audiologists and audiology students through academic service-learning: A symbiotic impact.
Amount- $1537.87 (funded, May 2nd 2017)

19. Source- Liberty Partnerships Program, March 2017.
Principle Investigator- Deshpande, S. B.
Title- Academic Service-Learning component of ‘Introduction to Hearing Science, Spring 2017’ to support educating diverse high school students about hearing science (pilot project). Amount- $192.03 (funded)

Mentored Student Grants

i. Source- Graduate Admissions Assistance Program (GAAP) Summer Research Funding
Investigator- Kristen Kazokas (Mentor: Deshpande, S.B.)
Title- Standardization of the University of Cincinnati Auditory Processing Inventory (UCAPI) on Adults and Adolescents from Diverse Backgrounds.
Amount- $2,800 (funded, May 2019)

ii. Source- Graduate Admissions Assistance Program (GAAP) Summer Research Funding
Investigator- Samantha Nadolski (UG) (Mentor: Deshpande, S.B.)
Title- Compilation of Clinical Data on Auditory Processing Disorders: Multiple Cases, Multiple, Causes, Multiple Outcomes
Amount- $2,800 (funded, May 2018)

iii. Source- St. John’s University Graduate Research Advancement in Science Scholarship Program (GRASSP)
Investigator- Colleen O’Brien (Graduate Student) (Mentor: Deshpande, S.B.)
Amount- $3,000 (funded, September 2018- May 2019)

iv. Source – Students Preparing for Academic Research Careers (SPARC), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Investigators- O’Brien, C. (Graduate Student) (Mentors: Deshpande, A. K. & Deshpande, S. B.)
Amount - $1,000 (funded, September 2018- May 2019)

v. Source- Student Travel Award Reimbursement (STAR) Program, American Academy of Audiology Foundation
Investigator- Colleen O’Brien (Graduate Student) (Mentor: Deshpande, S.B. and Deshpande, A. K.)
Amount- $500 (funded, April 2018)

vi. Source- Audiology/Hearing Science Research Travel Award (ARTA), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Investigator- Colleen O’Brien (Graduate Student) (Mentor: Deshpande, S.B.)

Amount- $500 + $250 ASHA conference registration (funded, November 2017). Among 25-30 award recipients, Colleen was invited to share her research experience as a St. John’s University’s and Long Island Audiology Consortium’s student in ASHA’s ‘Audiology Connections’ (p.32): https://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/2018-Audiology-Connections.pdf

vii. Source- Graduate Admissions Assistance Program (GAAP) Summer Research Funding
Investigator- Kristen McMonagle (UG) (Mentor: Deshpande, S.B.)
Title- Social Media Utilization in the Auditory Processing Disorder Community
Amount- $2,800 (funded, May 2017)

i. Shannon Contino (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Octave, Inter-octave, and Extended High Frequency Hearing Testing using mobile-health (mHealth) technologies in Racially Diverse Adolescents. (in progress).

ii. Elizabeth Mercado (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: The relationship between the EABR and auditory performance outcomes as measured by parental rating scales in pediatric cochlear implant recipients. (in progress).

iii.Emma Rios (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Extended High Frequency (EHF) Audiometry in children with and without traumatic brain injury. (in progress).

iv. Jada Quinlan (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Extended High Frequency Hearing Thresholds in Children with Diagnosed Central Auditory Processing Disorder (AuD capstone, in progress).

v. Jasmin Butler (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Comparison of extended high frequency thresholds in younger and older adults. (AuD capstone, in progress)

vi. Kathleen Kalschmid (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Development of the University of Cincinnati Auditory Processing Inventory - Revised (UCAPI-R): Data from a Diverse Group of Adolescents. (AuD capstone, in progress)

vii. MB (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Normative data collection on the University of Cincinnati Auditory Processing Inventory on the Bengali speaking population in New York. (AuD capstone, incomplete)

viii. Esther Zamler (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: The relationship between the EABR and auditory performance outcomes as measured by parental rating scales on pediatric cochlear implant recipients post-meningitis. (AuD capstone, completed in 2020)

ix. Kelly Laux (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Extended High Frequency (EHF) Audiometry in adults with and without traumatic brain injury. (AuD capstone, completed in 2019)

x. Kristin Poptean (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Compilation of Central Auditory Processing Disorder Case-studies. (AuD capstone, completed, in 2019)

xi. Mary Biordi (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: The Effects of Debilitating Tinnitus on Habituation: An Auditory Event-Related Potentials Study. (AuD capstone, completed)

xii. Kayla Rizzi (AuD Student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Comparison of speech perception measures in individuals with SNHL and SNHL with tinnitus. (AuD capstone, completed)

xiii Rachel Miller (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Extended High Frequency Screening in Children. (AuD capstone, completed)

xiv. Jessica Kotak (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Comparison of auditory processing abilities in individuals with and without extended high frequency hearing loss. (AuD capstone, completed)

xx. Yehudit Askarinam (AuD student), Long Island AuD Consortium, Project: Comparison of auditory processing abilities of individuals from low versus high socio-economic backgrounds. (AuD capstone, completed)

 

Selected Awards and Honors

1, Board member, ASHA’s Multicultural Issues Board (https://www.asha.org/about/governance/committees/committees/multicultural-issues-board/) from January 1st 2023-December 31st, 2025.

2, The Faculty Research Consortium Excellence in Community Based Outcomes and Poverty Research Award, 2022, St. John’s University

3, Vincentian Research Fellow (2022-2024)

4. Faculty Recognition Award, St. John’s University: Awarded in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. Award based on research merits from the 2020-2021, 2019-2020, 2018-2019, 2016-2017 academic years, respectively. Voted by the Dean and Faculty representatives.

5.  Academic Service-Learning Faculty Award 2021, St. John’s University: https://www.stjohns.edu/about/faith-and-mission/academic-service-learning

6.  Values and Inclusion Program nominee 2020, St. John’s University: https://www.stjohns.edu/about/news/announcements/announcement-2020-values-and-inclusion-program-vip-nominees

7.  Invited to speak about AS-L based teaching and research at Board of Trustees meeting on March 11th, 2020: https://www.facebook.com/liaudsaa/photos/a.348538701981520/1409356299233083

8. Invited Adjunct Faculty, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Mangalore, India, 2020 onward 6. Excellence in Teaching Award, 2018: https://www.stjohns.edu/about/news/2018-08-29/faculty-recognized-commitment-student-success 7. Featured on ASHA website: https://www.stjohns.edu/about/news/2020-08-26/dr-shruti-deshpande-featured-asha-website

9. Media/News: 1. St. John’s Academic Service-Learning Faculty Craft Unique Pandemic Responses | St. John's University (stjohns.edu) 2. AUD Students Conduct Hearing Screenings for Adolescents | St. John's University (stjohns.edu) 3. https://www.stjohns.edu/about/news/2018-05-17/st-johns-students-bring-hearing-loss-awareness-local-schools

10. Interviewed and cited in an article in Gizmodo on 03/05/18- How do you hear without ‘ears’: https://gizmodo.com/how-do-you-hear-without-ears-1823485389

11. . Interviewed and cited in an article by Huffington Post- Here’s Why Seashells Sound Like the Ocean by Caroline Bologna: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heres-why-seashells-sound-like-the-ocean_n_5b4510d0e4b048036ea369a4

12. Interviewed and cited in an article in Gizmodo on 03/05/18- How do you hear without ‘ears’: https://gizmodo.com/how-do-you-hear-without-ears-1823485389