News: Communication Disorders Clinic
Children With Disabilities Receive Specially Adapted Toys
On Saturday, two dozen children with physical disabilities celebrated the holiday season by receiving specially-adapted toys. The children and their families received the toys at a holiday party hosted by...
Multi-million Dollar Grant Aims to Help Children With Speech
Inside a small room decorated like a nursery, Alejandro Genovesi learns to speak English in full sentences by tapping an iPad. Alejandro is a five-year-old with severe speech delay. He...
Research Aims to Help Children With Communication Disorders Gain a Voice Through Apps
Researchers at the University of Central Florida and the University of New Mexico have been awarded a $2.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to study how language therapy, combined...
New UCF FAAST Lab Uses Technology to Help Speak
Alejandro Genovesi’s parents have tried multiple speech therapy methods and found only frustration as the 5-year-old struggled through a massive speech impediment, or they did until they found the FAAST...
UCF Listening Center Offers Hearing-Loss Services for Children and Adults
Every Wednesday evening, Julie Shipp and her two children, 9-year-old Ethan and 6-year-old Addison, take an hourlong drive from Apopka to the UCF Communication Disorders Clinic for their weekly appointment....
Amy Engelhoven, New Director of Aphasia House
For Amy Engelhoven, the new director of UCF’s Aphasia House, language has always been her passion. She studied communications and Spanish in college, and even spent a year abroad in...
Clinical Educator Charlotte Harvey to Retire This Summer
When Charlotte Harvey was growing up in Clarksburg, Massachusetts, she became aware of the power of the spoken word when a favorite aunt asked her to read for 15 minutes...
Janet Whiteside, Founder and Director of Aphasia House, Set to Retire
For more than 40 years, Janet Whiteside has helped men, women and children of all ages living with a speech disorder find their voices. She has inspired thousands of students...
Surviving a Tsunami – Carlos’ Story
In a video taken on Carlos Caram Dallapiccola’s first day at the University of Central Florida’s Aphasia House, his limited verbal speech is punctuated by the word, “Disculpa.” Aphasia House...
UCF Showcases Aphasia House at International Leadership Summit
International leaders who study and care for people who’ve lost their ability to speak recently gathered at UCF to discuss new therapy that can profoundly improve a client’s quality of...
