How does one go from being an undeclared sophomore to working for MD Anderson, one of the most revered cancer hospitals in the world? Jaimie Payne figured it all out and this is her story. Payne started at Florida State University in 2007 as an undeclared major. “I loved Tallahassee,” Payne said. During her first …
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Undeclared to MD Anderson: Meet SCSD Alumna Jaimie Payne
Meet SCSD Student: Teresa Carmedelle
In November, members of the Florida State University NSSHLA chapter attended the ASHA Convention. One of the attending students, Teresa Carmedelle, had the opportunity to present her undergraduate honors thesis. Teresa was six years old when she had her first interaction with speech-language pathology. “My younger sister was diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech,” she …
CONTINUE READINGSCSD welcomes applicants for doctoral leadership training grant
Florida State University’s School of Communication Science and Disorders is proud to announce it is accepting applications for Project BOLLD, a doctoral leadership training grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs. Project BOLLD (Bilingual Oral Language and Literacy Development & Disorders) is designed to build the capacity of young …
CONTINUE READINGSCSD graduate student wins American Association of University Women grant
Florida State University School of Communication Science & Disorders (SCSD) first-year graduate student Stephanie Brown received a Career Development Grant of $11,000 from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) for the upcoming academic year. Brown, who earned an undergraduate degree in early childhood education from Valdosta State University in 2007, taught in the classroom …
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. …
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