News: Communication Sciences and Disorders
CHPS Students Charge On And Continue Internship Experiences During COVID-19
Across the College of Health Professions and Sciences, students participate in internship experiences to enhance their learning and best prepare them for their future careers — all of which involve...
CSD Instructor Establishes Scholarship to Help Students with a Less Common Path to Graduation
Joe DiNapoli in class Joseph DiNapoli, a senior instructor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, recently established The Joe DiNapoli ‘Extended Journeys’ Endowed Scholarship Fund for “nontraditional” students,...
UCF Names 30 Under 30 Alumni Award Winners
UCF Alumni has announced its annual 30 Under 30 Award winners. These accomplished graduates were chosen for their great professional success, commitment to helping others and track record of giving back...
Health Report – COVID-19 masks and challenges for the deaf
The World Health Organization says people with hearing loss benefit from early interventions and access to communication like closed captioning and sign language.
CSD Student Uses Her Own Experiences Going Deaf to Better Serve Deaf Community
Allison Diaz, a student in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has gone from being hearing impaired to deaf while completing her studies at UCF to become a speech-language pathologist. “I’ve been involved with speech-language pathology...
COVID Masks: A Special Challenge for Deaf
460 million people worldwide are deaf or hearing-impaired, 34 million are children. The World Health Organization says people with hearing loss benefit from early interventions and access to communication like...
New Emeritus Faculty Honored
Congratulations to the new emeritus faculty in the College of Health Professions and Sciences! The faculty emeritus title is reserved for individuals who have achieved eminence. It honors both the...
CSD Program Helps Young Mothers Instill Early Language Skills in Their Children
For the past four years, graduate clinicians in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders have been hosting playgroups that are not only fun for the babies, but also help...
UCF Funds Second Round of $1 million SEED Initiative to Support Faculty Research
Thirty-seven teams are warded grants to investigate a variety of research including the use of artificial intelligence to improve battery performance and gaming to develop leadership skills.
UCF Listening Center Finds Innovative Ways to Offer Services During COVID-19
With schools offering virtual learning and limiting visitors in classrooms due to the pandemic, the UCF Listening Center had to reinvent how to deliver listening and spoken language services to preschoolers in a deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) class at Lake Como Elementary located in the Orange County School District....
