PEERS Program Helps Young Adults With Autism Expand Social Skills

In it’s third semester, PEERS (Program for Evaluation and Enrichment of Relational Skills), is becoming an invaluable piece of the Tallahassee community. The School of Communication Science & Disorders at Florida State University is partnering with the Center for Autism & Related Disabilities (CARD) to use evidence-based research to impact the lives of middle and high …

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Fulbright Scholar Annalise Fletcher Visits SCSD from New Zealand

This Fall there will be a new face in the School of Communication Science & Disorders: Fulbright Scholar Annalise Fletcher. Fletcher is a PhD student in her final year at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Interested in speech production changes in aging speakers and those with neurological disorders, a disorder known as dysarthria. She …

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Harlow Honored at AEJMC

In August, thousands will travel to San Francisco for the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Among those attending is School of Communication’s Summer Harlow. Harlow will be honored at AEJMC for her dissertation, Liberation Technology? Toward an Understanding of the Re-appropriation of Social Media for Emancipatory Uses among Alternative Media Projects in El …

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SCSD Graduate Students Volunteer at Mag-Con Summer Camp

Five graduate student clinicians in the Autism Spectrum Specialization Education and Training (ASSET) program within the School of Communication Science and Disorders (SCSD) volunteered at Mag-Con summer camp in Tallahassee, FL on June 22 – July 3, 2015. The federally funded ASSET project was designed to build on the curriculum of speech-pathology graduate students and …

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iSchool’s Kathy Burnett Keynotes in India

The 2nd International Conference on Innovation Driven Librarianship (ICIDL) took place June 11-13 at SRM University in India. Dr. Kathy Burnett, Director of the School of Information and F. William Summers Professor, delivered the keynote address. The conference was organized by the Central Library at SRM University, in association with the Korea Society for Information Management and the …

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Malia Bruker Films Klasse, Featured in Art Exhibit

School of Communication professor Malia Bruker participated in a site-specific art exhibition spread across various locations in Tuscany. Bruker was an artist-in-residence at M’Arte 2015, a contemporary art project. While overseas, Bruker traveled to Germany and worked on dance film Klasse with School of Dance’s Hannah Schwadron. Klasse Schwadron’s grandmother Ursula Lievendag was a Holocaust survivor who lived in …

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Jonathan Adams Finishes Fulbright Scholar Work

In August, CCI reported on Dr. Jonathan Adams’ selection to participate in the Fulbright Scholar program and again in November when Adams left for six months in Thailand. The School of Communication associate professor set up shop at Ubon Ratchathani University – Mukdahan campus, known to locals as Ubon, a university Adams has taught at multiple …

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