EW #536 Has been analyzing tape-recorded evidence for over 21 years; they are intensely involved in the research and forensic application of the speech and hearing sciences. Well known cases include the Branch Davidian case, Routier case and the Dan Peavy "DISD tapes".

Areas of Expertise:
Forensic Tape Authenticity/Analysis
Text/Video Transcription & Verification
Voice Identification via Spectrography
Linguistic & Discourse, Analysis of Speech
Analog/Digital Tape, Enhancement
Expert Testimony, Consultation & Lecture

Linguistics, phonetics, sound or noise measurement and analysis, electronic signatures analysis, aircraft/building/environmental acoustics, alcohol, drug or stress effects on speech, evaluation of speech, voice and hearing disorders, voice or speech recognition, and lectures and seminars.

Certification
Certificate of Clinical Competence, Audiology (Yonovitz)
American Speech and Hearing Association (Yonovitz)
Admitted to practice law in the states of Texas and Oklahoma
Board Certified Forensic Examiner, Audio/Video Examiner
Licensed Instructor Texas Board of Private Investigators
Member, Criminal Law Committee, Oklahoma Bar Association
Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Examiners
Diplomate, American Board of Law Enforcement Experts
Board of Legal Advisors & Fellow, American Guild of Court Videographers
Fellow, American College of Forensic Examiners

Experience
Professor Yonovitz's 24 years of teaching include appointments at the Speech and Hearing Institute, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the School of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston; Baylor College of Medicine; Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston; Conley Speech and Hearing Center, University of Maine; consultant to the VA Hospital; Director of the Electronic Prosthesis Laboratory, Mansfield Training School; former committee member for certification standards of the International Association of Identification (IAI); also more than 100 publications/paper presentations and more than 25 grants.

EW #536 is a Board Certified Forensic Audio Examiner with two law licenses and two science degrees.

Education
B.S., Audiology, Kent State University, 1969
M.A., Audiology, University of Connecticut, 1972
Ph.D., Acoustics, University of Connecticut, 1973
B.S., Biology, Baylor University, 1983
M.A., Biology, Southern Methodist University, 1986
J.D., Southern Methodist University, 1993
LL.M., Regent University, 2002 (Expected)



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