Mary Pat Moeller, PhD

Mary Pat Moeller, PhD

Mary Pat Moeller, PhD, has served as the director of the Center for Childhood Deafness at Boys Town National Research Hospital since 1994. She completed her doctorate in child language and deafness at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002. Dr. Moeller has published and lectured widely on topics related to early language intervention with children who are deaf and hard of hearing. She has worked clinically with deaf and hard of hearing infants and their families for over twenty-five years. Dr. Moeller developed the Diagnostic Early Intervention Project, a model program for infants with hearing loss and their families. Her current areas of research include theory of mind development in deaf children of hearing parents, effectiveness of family-centered early intervention models, and impact of audibility on the development of speech and language in infants with mild and moderate hearing loss. She is also the primary investigator on a grant designed to produce and disseminate information on Early Hearing Detection and Intervention. She and her colleagues developed www.babyhearing.org to address the informational and support needs of families following hearing screening and diagnosis. She has co-authored a variety of videotape training materials for parents of newly identified children and for early intervention providers. Dr. Moeller is a fellow of the American Speech-Language- Hearing Association.