Education

Ph.D. in Language and Communicative Disorders
San Diego State University & University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders

 

B.A. in Linguistics, cum laude  
New York University 

Employment & Affiliations

Clinical Supervisor 
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA   

Speech-Language Pathologist & Executive Function Specialist 
Children’s Health Council, Palo Alto, CA 

Speech-Language Pathologist
Peninsula Associates, Menlo Park, CA

Speech-Language Pathologist 
Union School District, San Jose, CA 

Training

Clinical Fellowship

Peninsula Associates
Menlo Park, CA 

 

Externships

Rady Children’s Hospital, Cochlear Implant Team 
San Diego, CA 

 

San Diego Unified School District 
San Diego, CA

 

Mesa College, Acquired Brain Injury Program 
San Diego, CA

Publications

Gelfand, H.M., Blumenfeld, H.K., Elman, J.L., & Evans, J.L. (under review). Intersensory facilitation in executive processes: Testing predictions of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis.

Vouloumanos, A., & Gelfand, H.M. (2013). Infant perception of atypical speech signals. Developmental Psychology, 49, 815-824.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations

Gelfand, H., Blumenfeld, H.K., Elman, J.L., & Evans J.L. (2015). Intersensory redundancy processing in adults: does audiovisual synchrony help? Poster presented at the 2015 ASHA Convention, Denver, CO, November 12-14, 2015.

Gelfand, H., Blumenfeld, H.K., Elman, J.L., & Evans J.L. (2015). Intersensory redundancy processing in adults with and without language impairment. Poster presented at the 2015 ASHA Convention, Denver, CO, November 12-14, 2015.

Gelfand, H., & Evans, J. (2012). Developmental changes in the influence of acoustic & non-acoustic contributions to the perception of spoken language. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, June 7-9, 2012.

Gelfand, H., & Evans, J. (2012). Developmental changes in the influence of acoustic & non-acoustic contributions to the perception of spoken language. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Southern California Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2nd, 2012.

Gelfand, H., & Evans J. (2011). Audiovisual language: Do congruent and incongruent gestures affect children’s comprehension? Poster presented at the 2011 ASHA Convention, San Diego, CA, November 17-19, 2011.

Gelfand, H., & Evans, J. (2011). Audiovisual nature of language: Do children process audio-visual information differently? Poster presented at the 2011 ASHA Convention, San Diego, CA, November 17-19, 2011.

Gelfand, H., & Vouloumanos, A. (2009). Conversations with Parrots: The Effect of the Vocalizing Source on Speech Perception in Infants and Adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society VI Biennial Meeting, San Antonio, TX, October 16-17, 2009.

Rabagliati, H., Gelfand, H., Marcus, G.F., & Pylkkänen, L. (2009). The Acquisition of Ontological Shits and the Process of Lexical Semantic Development Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development 2009 Biennial Meeting, Denver, CO, April 2-4, 2009.

Rabagliati, H., Gelfand, H., Marcus, G.F., & Pylkkänen, L. (2009). The Acquisition of Ontological Shifts and the Process of Lexical Semantic Development. Talk presented at Experimental Pragmatics, Lyon, France, April 23-25, 2009. 

Rabagliati, H., Lin, T., Gelfand, H., Marcus, G.F., & Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Development at the syntax-semantics interface: when do children understand implicit ontological shifts? Talk presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Architectures & Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge, UK, September 4-6, 2008.

Scientific Research Symposia
Gelfand, H., & Evans, J. (2012). Developmental changes in the influence of acoustic & non-acoustic contributions to the perception of spoken language. Poster presented at the Student Research Symposium 2012, San Diego, CA, March 9-10, 2012.
Invited Talks

Gelfand, H. (2016, February). Intersensory redundancy processing in adults with and without SLI. Peninsula Associates Professional Development Meeting.

Gelfand, H. (2011, September). Developmental changes in the influence of acoustic and non-acoustic contributions to spoken language comprehension. 15th Annual SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders Colloquium.

Gelfand, H. (2010, September). Audio-Visual Speech Perception: Another piece to the SLI Puzzle? 14th Annual SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders Colloquium.

Gelfand, H., & Vouloumanos, A. (2009, April). Conversations with Parrots: The Effect of the Vocalizing Source on Speech Perception in Infants and Adults. 35th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, NYU.

Professional Memberships

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

California Speech-Language Hearing Association (CSHA)