About

Our goal is to build long-term relationships and support the ongoing needs of our patients. Dr. Spencer is a licensed audiologist with 20+ years of research and clinical experience in the hearing health care industry.  Her professional experience includes senior clinical Audiologist and supervisor at The Methodist Hospital, senior clinical audiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital, honorary professor at Baylor College of Medicine, and associate professor at The University of Houston. Dr. Spencer is known for her professional, comprehensive and compassionate approach to evaluating, diagnosing and recommending hearing solutions designed to fit each patient’s personal needs.

EDUCATION:

• Doctor of Audiology, Audiology, Arizona School of Health Sciences
• Master of Education, Audiology, James Madison University
• Bachelor of Arts, Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland College Park
• Audiology Program, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Professional Organizations

• Texas State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Licensed Audiologist
• American Speech Language Hearing Association, Certificate of Clinical Competence – Audiology (CCC-A)
• American Academy of Audiology, Fellow
• American Doctors of Audiology, Member
• Texas Academy of Audiology, Member

Research & Presentations

The Effects of Hearing Loss on the Dichotic Sentence Identification Test

American Academy of Audiology Convention, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 1997
Directed by James F. Jerger, Ph.D.
The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Auditory Deprivation Effects on Speech Understanding in Monaural Hearing Aid Users

American Academy of Audiology Convention, Dallas, Texas, 1994
Directed by James F. Jerger, Ph.D.
The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Long Term Effects of Acoustic Trauma on Ganglion Cell Survival

Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia (SHAV) Convention, Virginia, 1993
Directed by Brenda M. Ryals, Ph.D.
Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia and James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

The Effects of Smoking on Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions

Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia (SHAV) Convention, Virginia, 1993
Directed by Brenda M. Ryals, Ph.D. The Effects of Age, Gender and Retrocochlear Disorder on the Maximum Length Sequence Auditory Evoked Potentials
Established normative data for The Methodist Hospital, 1997
Directed by James F. Jerger, Ph.D.
The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas