Thank you to all of our faculty judges and to our doctoral students for your participation. School of Communication Winners 1st Suekyung Lee “Designing and Tailoring Health Messages for Effective Campaigns According to the Preference for Words or Numbers in Presenting Medical Information” 2nd Margot Susca “Playing an Educational First-Person Shooter Video Game and …
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Research news from the CCI School of Communication Science & Disorders
CCI Research Week Doctoral Poster Winners Announced
Join us for CCI Research Week 2010
October 11th thru October 15th Date Time Event & Location Monday, October 11th 3:30-4:45 pm Union for Democratic Communications Student Research Panel Location: UCC 4400 All Week Faculty Publications on Display Location: Goldstein Library, LSB Tuesday, October 12th 1:00-2:00pm Doctoral Poster Session (SLIS, SCSD) Location: Goldstein Library, LSB Wednesday, October 13th 1:00-2:00pm Overview of Institutes …
CONTINUE READINGLaPointe and Stierwalt publish research on cognitive loading and injurious falls
Leonard La Pointe and Julie Stierwalt of the SCSD faculty have published a research article in the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology along with Charles Maitland (College of Medicine). For “Talking while walking: Cognitive loading and injurious falls in Parkinson’s disease,” the researchers studied 25 participants with Parkinson’s disease and 13 participants without neurological compromise. …
CONTINUE READINGApel and Thomas-Tate are researchers on $26 million IES grant
As part of a larger group of researchers at The Florida State University, Dr. Kenn Apel and Dr. Shurita Thomas-Tate of the School of Communication Science & Disorders are co-investigators on the “Reading for Understanding Research Network” project. The five-year, $100 million grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences …
CONTINUE READINGMotor-guided learning has benefits in speech therapy
Motor Guided Learning (MLG) is based on Dr. Schmidt’s schema theory of motor learning involving the limbs, which emphasizes practice to achieve a desired movement outcome. Recently, motor learning principles have been applied to speech language as collaboration between FSU and UNI in treating verbal apraxia. The treatment teaches a person to listen to their speech …
CONTINUE READINGFocus on Research 2009: October 26-30
Join members of our three schools in celebrating the first research week of the newly-merged College of Communication & Information, highlighted by faculty and doctoral research presentations and culminating in a celebratory reception. Wednesday through Friday events will be Webcast; find a link to the Webcasts at the College Web site (http://cci.fsu.edu). Monday – Faculty …
CONTINUE READINGROLL With It
Dr. Kenn Apel and students involved in his Research on Orthographic Learning Lab (ROLL) are expanding their research into early indicators of literacy learning risks with a project that investigates children’s eye movement during storybook reading. For some time, Dr. Apel has been investigating whether young children in the early stages of reading acquire quickly …
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