SCSD Doctoral Student Ashley Sellers Earns Highly Competitive NIH F31 Fellowship

Ashley Sellers has been awarded a highly competitive F31 National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), providing support for her dissertation research and an individualized training and mentorship plan designed to help her develop as an independent researcher. Her mentorship team includes Dr. Mollie Romano, Dr. Henna Budhwani with …

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SCSD Ph.D. Candidate Angelica Bernabe Selected for National ASHA Leadership Program 

School of Communication Science and Disorders (SCSD) Ph.D. candidate Angelica Bernabe has been selected for the 2026 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Minority Student Leadership Program (MSLP), a national program that brings together emerging leaders in communication sciences and disorders.  Bernabe is one of only 40 students selected nationally for the 2026 cohort and will represent …

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From Jordan to FSU: Dr. Sana Tibi Helps Strengthen Early Education Through IREX Grant

Faculty Spotlight School of Communication Science & Disorders FROM JORDAN TO FSU Dr. Sana Tibi HELPS STRENGTHEN EARLY EDUCATION As a graduate of a Jordanian public university and a native Arabic speaker, I have long been committed to advancing educational opportunities for children across the Arab world.

For Dr. Sana Tibi, an associate professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders, the opportunity to help advance early education in Jordan brings together two important parts of her life: her connection to the country where she grew up speaking Arabic, and her academic career studying how children learn to read the language.  Tibi and Stephanie …

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SCSD Student Yuvane Arjune Contributes to National Blog

Yuvane Arjune, a senior at Florida State University’s (FSU) School of Communication Sciences and Disorders (SCSD), recently contributed to the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) Blog. NSSLHA is the only national student organization for pre-professionals studying communication sciences and disorders (CSD) recognized by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).  Her story, “More Than Paradise: …

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Dr. Kelly Farquharson and doctoral student Alexis Moser present research at the 33rd SSSR

Dr. Kelly Farquharson, speech-language pathologist, professor, and director of the Children’s Literacy and Speech Sound (CLaSS) lab at Florida State University, presented her research poster, Phonological profiles of children with speech sound disorders: Preliminary data from one academic year, with doctoral student Alexis Moser at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific …

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