News: Research
In New Study, Children With Autism Learn the Gentle Way of Judo
For one hour each week, children in a new UCF research study shed their label of autism, don white uniforms called judogis and become judokas — practitioners of the martial...
Research Aims to Help Children with Communication Disorders Gain a Voice through Apps
Researchers at the University of Central Florida and the University of New Mexico have been awarded a $2.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to study how language therapy, combined...
Health Care, Opioid Use and Costs Drop When Acute Back Pain Patients Receive Immediate Physical Therapy
Low back pain affects nearly 70 million Americans and is considered the leading cause of disability in the United States. Costs associated with the condition exceed more than $100 billion...
Faculty Member Inspires Undergraduates to Participate in Research
Diana Abarca is a UCF undergraduate who conducts research every Friday at the Beta Center/UCP Downtown campus in Orlando. She runs and evaluates playgroups at the center, under faculty supervision,...
Rovito Earns National Award for Men’s Health Outreach, Research
Michael Rovito’s tireless efforts on behalf of men’s health earned him national honors last week at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Denver. The assistant professor of health sciences received the inaugural award for Excellence...
AAC Journal Selects Research Article as ‘Most Significant of the Year’
The Editorial Board of the journal Augmentative and Alternative Communication has selected a study led by Jennifer Kent-Walsh, professor of communication sciences and disorders, as the “Most Significant Research Article of the...
Orlando Sentinel Reports on New NIH Study
Research in Central Florida: UCF Professor Developing Interventions for Kids with Speech Problems For more than a decade, Dr. Jennifer Kent-Walsh has been studying how people who have severe speech...
UCF, Florida Hospital Research Collaboration Awards First Grant
A collaboration between the University of Central Florida and Florida Hospital has awarded its first $20,000 seed grant to a team that will study the fundamentals of cough in patients...
NIH Funds Study on Technology, Services for Children with Severe Speech Disabilities
Jennifer Kent-Walsh, professor of communication sciences and disorders, has been awarded a $437,812 grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve clinical services for young children with severe speech...
