CHPS News
Communication Sciences and Disorders
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.
Communication Sciences and Disorders
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...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
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...
Dean's Office
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...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
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...
Research
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...
Communication Disorders Clinic
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...
Physical Therapy
Go Baby Go! Partners with Engineering and Computer Science Seniors to Enhance Toy Cars as Mobility Devices
Four teams of seniors in the College of Engineering and Computer Science will help drive innovation by working with UCF Go Baby Go! to enhance the technology used in its adaptive ride-on...
Social Work
UCF School of Social Work Welcomes New Director, Matthew Theriot
Dr. Matthew Theriot The UCF College of Health Professions and Sciences welcomes Matthew Theriot, who will lead the School of Social Work as its new...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
2 Teams Awarded 2020 Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts and Wellness Innovation Awards
Two projects aimed at helping educate first responders and communicating the importance of vaccinations to new parents have been named winners of the 2020 Pabst...
