Benjamin Hornsby, PhD

Ben Hornsby is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Hornsby completed Ph.D in Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University and joined the Vanderbilt faculty as a teacher/scholar in 2002. He has authored over 90 scholarly papers, including more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has presented his research extensively at national and international scientific meetings. His research has been funded by private industry and federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Dr. Hornsby holds membership in several professional organizations and has served as a Section Editor, guest editor and reviewer for multiple scholarly journals. In 2016 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and in 2020 he was invited as a Fellow to join the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) group. Dr. Hornsby directs the Hearing and Communication Research Laboratory at Vanderbilt. His lab uses qualitative, behavioral, and physiologic methods to examine the communication difficulties of adults and children with hearing loss and the psychosocial consequences of those difficulties. His current research focuses on relationships between hearing loss-related communication difficulties, mental effort, and fatigue. In addition, he is a co-developer of the adult and pediatric versions of the Vanderbilt Fatigue Scales, a suite of scales designed to measure listening-related fatigue in adults and children. https://www.vumc.org/vfs