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Donald Finan
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; Member of the Center
for Neuroscience
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Sciences, Campus Box 409
SLHS C305
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0409
email: finand@spot.colorado.edu
Phone: 303-492-3078
FAX: 303-492-3274
Website: http://spot.colorado.edu/~finand
and http://slhs.colorado.edu/people/index.php
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Donald Finan received his Ph.D. in speech physiology and
developmental neuroscience from Indiana University Bloomington
in 1998. He completed postdoctoral work at Purdue University,
after which he took an appointment as assistant professor
at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Finan joined the
faculty at the University of Colorado in 2001, and is currently
an assistant professor in the department of Speech, Language,
and Hearing Sciences. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience
and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Dr.
Finan‚s general area of research is the development of
motor control in the human infant. He is currently involved
in studies of oromotor control in normal and disordered human
infants, children, and adults. One of the primary goals of
this research is to investigate the function of simultaneously
emerging centrally-patterned behaviors in human infants and
children as they relate to feeding and speech development.
Current and future studies aim to explore sensory modulation
of non-nutritive and nutritive sucking in normal, full-term
infants, stability of oromotor systems in children and young
adults for both speech and non-speech tasks, and coordination
of early feeding behaviors with respiration.
Selected Publications:
Finan, D.S. & Barlow, S.M. (1998). Intrinsic dynamics and
mechanosensory modulation of non-nutritive sucking in human
infants. Early Human Development, 52(2), 181-197.
Barlow, S.M., Dusick, A.M., Finan, D.S., Coltart, S.I., Biswas,
A., & Flaherty, K.J. (2000). Neurophysiological monitoring
of the orofacial system in premature and term infants. Journal
of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 8(4), 221-238.
Barlow, S.M., Dusick, A.M., Finan, D.S., Coltart, S.I., Biswas,
A. (2001). Mechanically evoked perioral reflexes in premature
and term human infants. Brain Research. 899(1-2), 251-254.
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