News: Communication Disorders Clinic
AAC Lab Receives Gift of Mobile Makerspace to Build Adaptive Toys
Variety – the Children’s Charity of Florida has donated $10,000 to the UCF AAC Research-to-Practice Lab Collaborative – to bring the gift of joy to children with developmental disabilities. The...
Redesigning Student Success: Five Faculty Receive Funding for Interprofessional Education Project
Five academic and clinical faculty members recently received funding through the Digital Learning Course Redesign Initiative to collaborate across disciplines on a project to turn existing graduate courses into new...
CSD Undergraduate Defies Dire Predictions, Continues to Rise
When Ashlei McGhee, an undergraduate student in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, was born two and a half months early, she weighed barely 2 pounds and her brain...
Graduate Clinicians in CSD Help Make Happy Campers
Graduate student clinicians in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders Master’s program recently earned supervised clinical hours at a day camp for children who are Deaf and hard-of-hearing and...
New Intensive Summer Reading Program Helps Kids “Catch-Up”
A new program from the UCF Communication Disorders Clinic is helping young readers “catch-up” on their reading skills. The 6-week program was led by reading and literacy clinical faculty and...
UCF CSD Program Shines at 2021 FLASHA Convention
Faculty, students and alumni from the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders gathered together this past weekend at the 2021 Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists annual convention. Among...
UPDATE: Communication Disorders Clinic
At the height of the pandemic last year, the UCF Communication Disorders Clinic transitioned to telehealth services, thanks to a national ruling from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, the Council on Academic...
Aphasia Family Connects UCF Students with Central Florida Aphasia Community
The Aphasia House, an outpatient clinic under the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, provides a comfortable place for patients with aphasia to receive treatment and find a community home....
Clinical Spotlight: Amy Engelhoven Develops Online Intensive Therapy Services to Meet Needs of People with Aphasia During the Pandemic and Beyond
When Amy Engelhoven, director of UCF’s Aphasia House, came to UCF in 2017, she said one of her goals for the program was to increase telehealth for patients with aphasia,...
Aphasia House Director Shares Tips for Supporting Those with Aphasia
June is Aphasia Awareness Month. Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage to the language centers in the brain, usually in the left hemisphere. It can affect all aspects...
