She received her M.Sc. degree in Audiology at the University of Western Ontario, her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha. Dr. Leibold recently received a three-year grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (R03DC008389) to develop a better understanding of children's ability to hear in noisy environments and her publications focus on auditory development.