University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health department of communication disorders faculty members Dr. Sarah Poissant, associate professor, Dr. Richard Freyman, professor and undergraduate program director, and Dr. Gwyneth Rost, assistant professor, received a one-year, $25,000 Emerging Research Grant from the Hearing Health Foundation. The grant is for a project titled “The Impact of Total Communication on the Auditory Perception of Speech.”