Jean C. Krause holds a B.S.E.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At MIT, her research focused on speech perception and the acoustic properties of clear speech, and she co-invented an "Automatic cueing of speech" system (US Patent # 6,317,716). Since arriving at the University of South Florida in 2003, she has developed a number of instruments for evaluating expressive Cued Speech skills, including a Cued Speech version of the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment.