News: Communication Sciences and Disorders

Originally published in The ASHA Leader, September 2017, Vol. 22, 68.  As many communications sciences and disorders students head back to class, and in keeping with The ASHA Leader’s “Back...

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....

The first Belgian chapter of Go Baby Go!, an outreach program that works to give children with mobility impairments more freedom, launched this week thanks to the help of the...

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...

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...

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...

With his fair skin, blond hair and delicate features, Colin David looks like a little angel. He behaves like an angel, too, said his parents Brian ‘07 and Kelly ’08...

(Left to right) USP Professor Jeniffer Dutka; UCF students Joanne Medina, Kaira Clapper and Laura Flores; UCF Associate Professor Linda I. Rosa-Lugo; and UCF students Diana Bosquez and Sonya Persaud...

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...

Working as an intern at a speech-language clinic in rural Nova Scotia, Jennifer Kent-Walsh met a family who would forever change what she wanted to do with her life. The...