Rate My Professor Lindsey Jorgensen

Lindsey Jorgensen serves as Chair and Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Dakota, where she also directs the graduate program. She holds a PhD in Audiology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012, an Au.D. in Audiology from the same institution in 2008, an MA in Audiology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007, and a BS in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Washington in 2004. Her specializations encompass clinical audiology, amplification, aural rehabilitation, and tinnitus. Jorgensen maintains an active clinical role at the university's Speech Language and Hearing Clinic, where she oversees services including the FDA-approved Lenire device for tinnitus treatment. Her research interests focus on amplification, hearing loss, aging, traumatic brain injury, hearing aid use, dementia, and geriatric and veteran populations. She has led funded projects such as a Veterans Administration grant for auditory processing assessment in blast-exposed veterans and an FDA clinical trial. A key innovation is her team's development of a novel bone conductor headband, granted a USD-owned provisional patent.

Jorgensen has advanced through academic ranks at USD to her current leadership position and has received prestigious honors, including the President’s Award for Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship in 2021, Clinical Achievement Award from the South Dakota Speech-Language and Hearing Association in 2024, National Academies of Practice Distinguished Fellow in 2022, and designation as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology. She has earned multiple Jerger Student Project Awards from the American Academy of Audiology between 2018 and 2020. Her publications include the co-authored book Hearing Aids for Speech-Language Pathologists: A Guide to Modern Rehabilitative Audiology (Plural Publishing, 2020) and influential articles such as "The effect of decreased audibility on MMSE performance: a measure commonly used for diagnosing dementia" (Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 2016), "MarkeTrak 10 (MT10) survey results demonstrate high satisfaction with and benefits from hearing aids" (Seminars in Hearing, 2020), and "Factors influencing hearing aid adoption" (Seminars in Hearing, 2020). She has contributed to Audiology Practice Standards Organization guidelines for pediatric and adult hearing aid fittings and participates in humanitarian audiology missions.