Dr. Betty Vohr’s research focuses on prospective studies examining the impact of interventions on the comprehensive neurodevelopmental, cognitive, motor, growth, functional, educational, and behavioral outcomes of high-risk infants, especially very low birth weight infants and infants with permanent hearing loss. Dr. Vohr has been Medical Director of the Rhode Island Hearing Assessment Program since 1990, and Coordinator for the NICHD Neonatal Research Network Follow-up Studies since 1997. Dr. Vohr has used LENA technology since 2008 to investigate the language environment of premature infants in the NICU and children with congenital hearing loss. Investigations with colleague Dr. Melinda Caskey have demonstrated the importance of parent talk with preterm infants in the NICU. This was the first study to provide evidence that preterm infants begin making vocalizations 8 weeks before their projected due date and make significantly more vocalizations when a parent is present. Dr. Vohr has over 250 publications and is a frequent invited speaker both nationally and internationally.