Fall semester brings new faculty and staff to the School of Communication Science & Disorders at FSU’s College of Communication & Information. Michelle Therrien, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Therrien completed her Master’s in Computational Linguistics from University of Washington and her doctorate from Penn State University. Dr. Therrien’s research focuses on increasing and improving social …
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Communication Science & Disorders Welcomes New Faculty
20 Questions with Jennifer Boss Kekelis
What was your first job? My first job was working in my parents’ restaurant which was a sub sandwich shop on Panama City Beach. If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? “Bossiness”. See what I did there? Not necessarily because I’m bossy, but because it would be all about …
CONTINUE READINGDr. Selena Snowden, SCSD Students Embark on Second Annual Help Guatemala Hear Mission Trip
On February 27, a plane with Dr. Selena Snowden, her husband Ryan Snowden, audiologist Dr. Halle Van Oss and 12 School of Communication Science & Disorders students landed in Solola’, Guatemala. For the next four days, the group would provide the impoverished community with hearing clinics and construction work. With help from non-profit organization Porch de Salomon …
CONTINUE READINGFSU Speech and Hearing Clinic First in North Florida to Activate Cochlear Implant
28-year-old Eric Allbritton is a father, a husband, a graduate architect and a cochlear implant patient. His parents believe that a bad fever that he experienced as a toddler caused him to have increased hearing loss throughout his life. He doesn’t remember hearing birds as a child, but this wasn’t strange to him because he didn’t realize what …
CONTINUE READING20 Questions with Selena Snowden
20 Questions with Selena Snowden What was your first job? Clerk in retail store If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? Can you hear me now? Where did you grow up? I grew up in North Florida (Apalachicola to Panama City) with the exception of four years (3rd through …
CONTINUE READING20 Questions with Lisa Scott
What was your first job? I worked as a car hop for A & W Root Beer. I didn’t have to wear roller skates, thank goodness, because the mugs on the trays were REALLY heavy! If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? Things That Made Me …
CONTINUE READINGPEERS 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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