News: Communication Sciences and Disorders
UCF Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Program Ascends to Top 50
The speech-language pathology graduate program in the UCF School of Communication Sciences and Disorders now ranks in the top 17% of the nation according to the U.S. News & World...
From Engineering to Counseling, Graduate Programs Highly Ranked by U.S. News Propel UCF Alumni to Thrive in Career
U.S. News & World Report ranks 13 UCF graduate programs in the top 50 nationally — and alumni in those programs laud Knight Nation’s world-class faculty. While pursuing a doctoral degree in...
AI in Health Care: How Central Florida health care providers are balancing innovation with human oversight and patient safety
“The health care provider is the trained content expert,” said Richard Zraick, a speech language pathologist and founding director of the University of Central Florida’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders. “They have the...
7 UCF Health Professions Faculty Inducted to National Academies of Practice
Seven faculty members in the College of Health Professions and Sciences were inducted into the NAP for exemplary interprofessional research, practice and scholarship.
Research Roundup: Publications by CHPS Faculty, Fall 2024
Students at the College of Health Professions and Sciences benefit from faculty who conduct research into a broad number of health and wellness topics, discovering new insights and creating innovation...
Discovering What Is Rarely Spoken
As she prepares to retire, a new endowed scholarship from Martine Vanryckeghem is ensuring future generations of fluency disorder specialists continue the life-changing conversations she and her late husband Gene...
UCF Awarded $1.25M to Prepare Special Educators, Speech-language Pathologists in Autism
For two decades, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has provided funding to prepare UCF graduate students to serve the growing number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)....
Graduation Spotlight: Ashlei McGhee, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Meet Ashlei McGhee. Despite doctors bestowing grim expectations on her chances of communicating or attending college due to medical complications at birth, Ashlei stands as a testament that we are...
CSD Alumnus Brings Discussion on Fluency Disorders Across the Country
Randy Panzarino ’16 ’19 ‘21MA, originally from Melbourne Beach, Florida, graduated from UCF with a bachelor’s in psychology in 2016, a bachelor’s in communication sciences and disorders in 2019 and...
UCF Professor and Students Break Barriers in Health Literacy
The average English-speaking adult reads at a seventh to eighth grade reading level, Dr. Richard Zraick, UCF communication sciences and disorders professor, said. Zraick said health literacy is the ability...
