Associate Professor and Ph.D. Program Director
Phone: (713) 743-6136
Email: ajoshi5@Central.UH.EDU
Office: Melcher Life Sciences M243B
Curriculum Vitae | Website

Education

• Ph.D., Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
• M.S., Speech Language Pathology, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
• B.S., Hearing Language Science, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik, India

Teaching

• Voice Disorders (COMD 6387)
• Speech Science (COMD 3385)

Research Interests

Dr. Joshi’s research interests focus on voice and voice disorders. Her current research focuses on identifying low-cost assessment tools for voice disorders and, on post-surgical voice rest.

For more information, view Dr. Joshi’s research page.

Research Grants

(past 5 years)

• 2020-2023  National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIH/NIDCD), 1R21DC017205-01A1, Voice Rest Adherence after Phonomicrosurgery. Role: Principal Investigator.
• 2018  Research Progress Grant, Division of Research, University of Houston, Normative Data for Acoustic Analyses of the Voice. Role: Principal Investigator
• 2017  Research Progress Grant, Division of Research, University of Houston. Objective and Subjective Measurement of Two Forms of Voice Rest after Phonosurgery. Role: Principal Investigator

Selected Publications

(for a full list of publications, see CV and Google Scholar Profile)

• Nair, R. M.,* Joshi, A., & Gunjawate, D. R. (in press). Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards vocal health care amongst Indian Carnatic singers. Journal of Voice. https://www.jvoice.org/article/S0892-1997(21)00238-1/fulltext
• Joshi, A., Procter, T., & Kulesz, P. A. (in press). Acoustic measures of voice in individuals wearing different facemasks. Journal of Voice. https://www.jvoice.org/article/S0892-1997(21)00201-0/fulltext
• Procter, T.,* & Joshi, A. (in press). Cultural competency in voice evaluation: Considerations of normative standards for sociolinguistically diverse voices. Journal of Voice. https://www.jvoice.org/article/S0892-1997(20)30369-6/fulltext
• Joshi, A., Baheti, I.,* & Angadi, V. (2020). Cultural and linguistic adaptation of the Consensus Auditory Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) in Hindi. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 63(12), 3974-3981.
• Joshi, A. (2020). A comparison of the s/z ratio and instrumental aerodynamic measures. Journal of Voice, 34(4), 533-538.
• Joshi, A., Watts, C. R., & Hathway, J. (2020). Phonation quotient using three aerodynamic instruments in the disordered voice. Journal of Voice, 34(1), 20-24. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.08.002
• *Regan, K., & Joshi, A. (2019). A tutorial of the current treatment modalities and voice management in laryngeal cancer. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interests Groups, 4(5), 805-813. doi:10.1044/2019_PERS-SIG3-2019-0003
• Joshi, A. (2019). A comparison of the s/z ratio to instrumental aerodynamic measures of phonation. Journal of Voice. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2019.02.014
• Joshi, A., & Watts, C. R. (2017). Phonation quotient in women: A measure of vocal efficiency using three aerodynamic instruments. Journal of Voice, 31(2), 161-167. doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2016.06.007
• Joshi, A., & Watts, C. R. (2016). Measurement reliability of phonation quotient derived from three aerodynamic instruments. Journal of Voice, 30(6), 773-e13. doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2015.11.015 

Honors

• International Student Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (2009)

Professional Activities

• Editorial board member, Journal of Speech-Language and Hearing Research
• Editorial board member, Journal of Voice
• Reviewer, ASHF grants