News: Communication Sciences and Disorders
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...
A Full-Circle Journey: How a CSD Alumna’s Strengths and Family Drove Her Success
When Rachel Williams ‘96MA was growing up in Brevard County, her parents often urged her to consider a career in education. They were lifelong educators themselves, and knew their daughter...
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...
Early Career Exposure Plants Seeds for Fruitful, Award-Winning Career for CSD Alumna
From an early age, seeds were planted in the mind and life of Athanasia Svenning ’16 ’18MA, leading her to the field of communication sciences and disorders. Her mother, a pharmacist, often spoke with her...
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 Lifelike Hologram Tech Expands UCF Students’ Skills in Patient Care
The first use of holoportation patients will increase the variety of different diagnoses students can learn from in a “true-to-life” form. The University of Central Florida is incorporating new technology...
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...
Research Roundup: Recent Publications By CHPS Faculty Spring 2021
Our faculty pursue big ideas and share what they learn by publishing their research to advance scientific discovery. As part of an institution designated as “very high” research activity by...
