Elizabeth Barrios Brings the Mambo to Speech Pathology

Elizabeth Barrios started out wanting to build things. As a student in her last year of high school in Cuba, she was preparing to become an architect or engineer, until one day she visited a school for children with behavioral disorders. Her experience there altered the course of her career, a particular teacher/ student interaction …

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Delta Zeta Raises $12,620 at Homeruns for Hearing

On October 16, Delta Zeta hosted their first annual Homeruns for Hearing. All proceeds benefitted the FSU Speech and Hearing Clinic as well as the Starkey Hearing Foundation, a non-profit that provides hearing aids to underprivileged individuals in third world countries. The Fall philanthropy event featured a homerun derby, a BBQ, various lawn games and a silent …

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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 …

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Speech Pathology & Audiology Awareness Event

Wednesday, Oct. 29th from 11-2pm on Landis Green, there will be a Communication Disorder Awareness Event to enlighten the FSU student body with more information about the professions of Speech Pathology and Audiology and the communication disorders we study.  There will be having games, jeopardy boards, and free food for those who participate. Find out more …

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SCSD Hosts Southeastern University Clinical Educators Annual Conference

Florida State University’s School of Communication Science & Disorders (SCSD) served as the host program for the annual Southeastern University Clinical Educators (SEUCE) conference at the Wyndham Bay Point in Panama City Beach, Fla., on Sept. 26-27. SEUCE is an organization of clinic directors and clinical educators in speech pathology and audiology from programs in the …

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