Delta Zeta hosting Hamburgers for Hearing for Schendel Clinic

The ladies of Delta Zeta sorority invite the community to Hamburgers for Hearing, a fundraiser for the L.L. Schendel Speech and Hearing Clinic operated by FSU’s School of Communication Science & Disorders. The event will be held at the Delta Zeta House, 749 W. Jefferson St., from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24. The …

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2010 Convocation & Homecoming Ceremonies, November 6

THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Communication & Information Cordially invites you to the 2010 Convocation & Homecoming Ceremonies Saturday, November 6, 2010 Louis Shores Building, Florida State University campus 8:00 a.m. – Buffet breakfast 9:30 a.m. – Cememony honoring alumni, faculty and staff from the Schools of Communication,   Communication Science and Disorders, and Library and Information …

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LaPointe 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. …

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Apel 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 …

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Apel takes helm as SCSD Director

Dr. Kenn Apel has begun a three-year appointment as director of The Florida State University’s School of Communication Science & Disorders. And no, that’s not a typo in his first name. He’s “double-n Kenn.” Apel, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Speech-Language Pathology at San Diego State University and his PhD at the …

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Kenn Apel new Director of Communication Science & Disorders

Dr. Kenn Apel has begun a three-year appointment as director of The Florida State University’s School of Communication Science & Disorders. And no, that’s not a typo in his first name. He’s “double-n Kenn.” Apel, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Speech-Language Pathology at San Diego State University and his PhD at the …

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Preventing falls in aging U.S. population topic of research

By Frank Stephenson Research in Review When it comes to preventing falls among the most fragile among us, the science is in. It’s a sobering, undeniable fact of life in America today—the country is falling down. Literally. No idle political punditry this — as a people, we Americans are older than we’ve ever been, and …

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