While initially being focused predominantly on the visual modality, research and applications in the field of augmented and virtual reality environments recently started expanding towards the auditory modality. In this context, two major fields of research interrelating virtual reality and Psychoacoustics or hearing research in general have attracted growing interest: 1) the evaluation of virtu...

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to describe the history and resources of the doctor of audiology (AuD) program at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)/Callier Center for Communication Disorders, as well as to provide an overview of the program. METHOD Data from 1999, when the AuD program was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Program, to the present were reviewed. ...