News: Communication Sciences and Disorders

UCF’s ASL Day Celebration and ASL Deaf Chat

Written By: Lexani Diaz | April 25, 2025
For many, the tale is as old as time — on April 15, 1817, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Dr. Mason Cogswell, and Laurent Clerc collaborated to establish the American School for...

Social Work Students Provide Support to Caregivers at the Aphasia House

Written By: Grayson Keglovic | April 21, 2025
Graduate social work students are now serving alongside communication sciences and disorders (CSD) student clinicians at the UCF Health Aphasia House as part of a new interprofessional learning opportunity designed...

UCF Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Program Ascends to Top 50

Written By: Heather Lovett | April 9, 2025
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

Written By: Mark Schlueb | April 8, 2025
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

Written By: J.C. Carnahan – Staff Writer, Orlando Business Journal | March 27, 2025
“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

Written By: Grayson Keglovic | March 24, 2025
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

Written By: CHPS Staff | March 17, 2025
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

Written By: Robert Stephens | January 31, 2025
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

Written By: Evan Chiovari | January 8, 2025
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

Written By: Carmen McCrackin | December 12, 2024
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...

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