Shannon Hall-Mills, a Visiting Assistant Professor in SCSD, moderated an expert panel regarding the ASHA Roles and Responsibilities of SLPs in Schools at the Schools Conference of the Florida Association for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (FLASHA) at Nova Southeastern University’s campus in Orlando, October 29th. Dr. Hall-Mills spoke on several essential factors in implementing the …
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Shannon Hall-Mills, ASHA Roles and Responsibilities
Danielle Brimo, Laura Gingrich, Lindsey Leacox and Laurie Beth Swineford successfully defended their dissertations this fall 2011
Danielle Brimo (Major Advisor: Dr. Kenn Apel): Examining the contributions of Syntactic Awareness and Syntactic Knowledge to Reading Comprehension Laura Gingrich (Major Advisor: Dr. Julie Stierwalt): Relation Among Age, Gender, And Oral/Palatal Dimensions On Anterior And Posterior Lingual-Palatal Pressures In Healthy Adults Lindsey Leacox (Major Advisor: Dr. Carla Jackson): Young English Learners’ Cognate Sensitivity on …
CONTINUE READINGJennifer Barry $5,000 award
Jennifer Barry, a second year Master’s student in the School of Communication Science and Disorders, was awarded a 2011 Graduate Student Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation recently. This $5,000 award is given to outstanding students in communication science and disorders and is a highly competitive, prestigious gift. Jennifer will receive her award on Friday, …
CONTINUE READINGJennifer Brown and Emily Marturana Student Research Travel Awards
Jennifer Brown and Emily Marturana, both doctoral students in the School of Communication Science and Disorders, received Student Research Travel Awards from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to travel to its annual convention this November in San Diego. Only 24 students from around the country were chosen for this prestigious honor. In addition to these two …
CONTINUE READINGEmily Marturana Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Emily Marturana, an SCSD doctoral student, has been interning at the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in Washington DC this fall participating in the development of training materials for the Part C reauthorization rules. Jennifer Brown, also a doctoral student, conducted the key note address for approximately 250 early intervention and special education coordinators …
CONTINUE READING2011 Vic Baird Graduate Student Program
On September 30th through October 2nd, sixteen graduate students in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders traveled to Orlando Florida to attend the 2011 Vic Baird Graduate Student Program, sponsored by the Florida Laryngectomy Association. This annual program is designed to provide specific training to graduate students on the implications of laryngectomy. The program …
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