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Clinical Spotlight

Jane Hostetler: UCF Speech Pathologist Helps Parkinson’s Patients Speak Out

Written By: Audrey Ramos | April 13, 2020
Jane Hostetler, an associate instructor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been working with Parkinson’s patients at UCF’s Communication Disorders Clinic to...
Communication Sciences and Disorders

New Program Helps Students to Work With Children With Special Needs

Written By: PROJECT SPEECH | April 10, 2020
The graduate certificate program will start this summer as a partnership between the College of Community Innovation and Education and the College of Health Professions...
Communication Sciences and Disorders

Simulation Helps Graduate Students Continue to Earn Clinical Hours

Written By: | April 9, 2020
For Kennedy Raffa ’19 and Lauren Lamontagne — along with the 93 other speech-language pathology graduate clinicians — the time away from campus means they...
Clinical Spotlight

UCF Cleft Palate Expert Is Changing The Way The Condition Is Diagnosed And Treated

Written By: Drexler B. James '13 | April 7, 2020
Craniofacial defects such as cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects. Lakshmi Kollara Sunil, assistant professor in the School of...
Health Sciences

Health Sciences Student Karina Castro Named to 2020 Knight of Distinction Program

Written By: Drexler B. James '13 | April 2, 2020
Karina Castro, a first-year health sciences student, has taken a step forward in her academic career at UCF and has been selected as a Knight...
Physical Therapy

Harnessing Power: UCF’s Aphasia House and Knights on the Go Café is helping people like Larry Lentz Jr. improve their mobility, language and social skills.

Written By: | April 1, 2020
Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes, they wear harnesses. When Larry Lentz Jr. wears his harness in the Knights on the Go Café, he glides from...
Social Work

UCF School of Social Work Awards Seed Grants for Interdisciplinary Research

Written By: UCF School of Social Work | March 9, 2020
The UCF School of Social Work is committed to providing essential and unique research to health and mental health fields through the school’s Center for...
Social Work

Social Work Student Launches Food Pantry at Community School

Written By: Drexler B. James '13 | March 6, 2020
Celine Rodriguez, a social work graduate student, didn’t really understand food insecurity issues until she witnessed it firsthand at the Academic Center for Excellence in...
Physical Therapy

UCF and Orlando Health Residency Faculty Shine at APTA Combined Sections Meeting

Written By: Rick Casano Beato | March 6, 2020
The UCF & Orlando Health Neurologic Residency faculty were busy at this year’s Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association held at the...
Communication Sciences and Disorders

UCF Aphasia House Named Southeast Research Hub for Patient-Centered Outcomes Project

Written By: Camille Dolan '98 | February 28, 2020
UCF Aphasia House  has been selected as one of four aphasia research incubator hubs throughout the country, representing the southeast region. The opportunity comes as...

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