Irina Castellanos, PhD

In the ABLE project, we investigate how preschool children’s ability to identify, plan, execute, and evaluate goals contributes to social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. 

In the Parent-Infant Eyetracking Project, we investigate how embodied visual attention develops during early language learning. Research questions are addressed using questionnaire and performance-based assessments of cognition, and include the use of eyetracking technology.

Additional research projects include the assessment of conceptual thinking and reasoning in pediatric CI users, and executive functioning skills in post-lingually deafened adult CI users.

“Psychosocial outcomes in deaf children with cochlear implants”
03/01/17 – 02/28/20
NIH/NIDCD Early Career Research Award
Primary Investigator
R21 DC016134 

“Action and interaction in infants with hearing loss, before and after cochlear implantation”
04/01/18 – 03/31/21
NIH/NIDCD     
Co-Mentor 
F32 DC016213 

*Denotes a student author

Castellanos, I., Pisoni, D. B., & Kronenberger, W. G. (in press). I should do as I say, not as I do: Self-regulation and psychosocial outcomes in deaf children with cochlear implants. In M. Marschark & H. Knoors (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Learning and Cognition (pp. xxx–xxx). New York: Oxford University Press.

Castellanos, I., Kronenberger, W. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2018). Psychosocial functioning in long-term cochlear implant users. Ear & Hearing, 39, 527–539. doi:10.1097/AUD.0000000000000504

Castellanos, I., Kronenberger, W. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2018). Questionnaire-based assessment of executive functioning: Psychometrics. Applied Neuropsychology: Child, 7, 93–109. doi:10.1080/21622965.2016.1248557.

Castellanos, I., Pisoni, D. B., Yu, C., *Chen, C., & Houston, D. M. (2018). Embodied cognition in prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants: Preliminary findings. In H. Knoors, & M. Marschark (Eds.), Evidence–based practices in deaf education (pp. 397–416). New York: Oxford University Press.

Moberly, A. C., *Patel, T. R., & Castellanos, I. (2017). Relations between self-reported executive functioning and speech perception skills in adult cochlear implant users. Otology & Neurotology, 39, 250–257. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000001679 

Castellanos, I., Pisoni, D. B., Kronenberger, W. G., & Beer, J. (2016). Early expressive language skills predict long-term neurocognitive outcomes in cochlear implant users: Evidence from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories. American Journal of Speech–Language Pathology, 25, 381–392. doi:10.1044/2016_AJSLP-15-0023.

Castellanos, I., Pisoni, D. B., Kronenberger, W. G., & Beer, J. (2016). Neurocognitive function in deaf children with cochlear implants: Early development and long-term outcomes. In M. Marschark, & P. E. Spencer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language (pp. 264–275). New York: Oxford University Press. 

Castellanos, I., Kronenberger, W. G., Beer, J., Colson, B. G., Henning, S. C., Ditmars, A., & Pisoni, D. B. (2015). Concept formation skills in long-term cochlear implant users. Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education, 20, 27–40. doi:10.1093/deafed/enu039. 

Castellanos, I., Kronenberger, W. G., Beer, J., Henning, S. C., Colson, B. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2014). Preschool speech intelligibility and vocabulary skills predict long-term speech and language outcomes following cochlear implantation in early childhood. Cochlear Implants International, 15, 200–210. doi:10.1179/1754762813Y.0000000043. 

Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Adjunct Appointment, Assistant Professor, 2017 – Present 
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
The Ohio State University

2017 American Journal of Speech–Language Pathology 2016 Editor’s Award for the most impactful article that met the highest quality standards in research design and presentation

2014 – 2016 Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Postdoctoral Training Fellowship (TL1 TR001107), National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

2012 – 2014 Speech, Hearing, and Sensory Communication Postdoctoral Training Fellowship (T32 DC000012), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

2011 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Travel Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology

2006 – 2011 Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement Fellowship (R25 GM061347), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

2006 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Travel Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology

2005 – 2006 Graduate Student Scholarship, Florida International University

2004 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Travel Award, International Society on Infant Studies

2004 Cum Laude Graduate, Florida International University

2003 Psychology Research Initiatives Mentorship Experience (PRIME) Fellowship, American Psychological Association (APA)