For the increasing number of “high-risk” families in Florida facing the complex challenges of infants and toddlers with disabilities and developmental delays, additional help is on the way. Two Florida State University professors have received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to train more educators in specialized early intervention and support. …
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News from the CCI School Communication Science & Disorders
SCSD's Woods and COE's Hanline awarded $1.2 million grant to train early educators of special-needs kids
Shannon Hall-Mills, ASHA Roles and Responsibilities
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 …
CONTINUE READINGFSU School of Communication hosts Dr. Binod C. Agrawal
Presentations (All CCI students welcome) this coming week at by Dr. Binod C. Agrawal is the guest of the School of Communication at Florida State University during the week of November 28 to December 2, 2011. During his visit to FSU, Dr. Agrawal will lead two workshops on qualitative research methods (each offered two times), …
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Check it out – the Fall STUDENT newsletter is out! Click Here! If you know of any stories that we missed, send them to me (eranderee@cci.fsu.edu) for the Spring Newsletter (coming mid-March)
CONTINUE READINGDanielle 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 …
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