News: Communication Sciences and Disorders
UCF Helps Launch Go Baby Go! in Belgium for Children with Limited Mobility
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...
Amy Engelhoven, New Director of Aphasia House
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...
Clinical Educator Charlotte Harvey to Retire This Summer
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...
Janet Whiteside, Founder and Director of Aphasia House, Set to Retire
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...
Keeping Up with Colin: Two Departments Collaborate for One Very Special Boy
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...
Students Visit Remarkable Craniofacial Treatment Center in Brazil
(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...
UCF Showcases Aphasia House at International Leadership Summit
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...
Giving a ‘Voice’ to Innovation: Kent-Walsh Wins Marchioli Award
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...
New Externship Brings Belgian Speech-Language Pathology Students to UCF
Dressed in the uniform of a UCF communication sciences and disorders graduate student, Gerlinde Taghon and Celien Volckaert of Belgium appear to fit right in with the other students enrolled...
Graduates Discover Family Ties from Class Project, Will Introduce Relatives
What began as an ordinary hangout between two University of Central Florida students and friends will end as a reunion of long-lost families. Isabel Morejon and Monica Lopez, both communication...