Walter J. Smoski

Walter J. Smoski is an associate professor of audiology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, formerly known as the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology. He was a clinical audiologist in private practice before joining the ISU faculty in 1984. Smoski served as Interim Department Chair from 2002 to 2004 and as Chair from 2004 to 2007. He is a licensed audiologist in the state of Illinois. His research interests include hearing instruments users’ satisfaction and benefit measures and central auditory processing disorder evaluation and remediation. The department is home to the Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic, which serves thousands of patients throughout central Illinois.

 

His work has been published in numerous journals and nationally published reports, including Handbook of Clinical Audiology and American Speech and Hearing Association Leader. He has been the recipient of three Red Tassel Mortar Board Faculty Awards for exceptional teaching (1992, 1999, and 2000). Smoski holds an AB in English from St. Benedict’s College, an MS in Audiology from Southern Illinois University, and a PhD in Audiology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.