Ferenc Bunta, PhD, is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston and Adjunct Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. His publications include more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, and other scholarly works primarily on multilingual phonology and speech in typically developing children and their peers with hearing loss who use cochlear implants. His research has received funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Department of Education, Cochlear Americas, and the Spencer Foundation. He has served as guest editor and editorial board member of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, and reviewed grant proposals for various agencies (including the European Research Council and National Science Foundation). He is also the founding director of the PhD program in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston.
