An expert in child development and psycholinguistics from the University of Sydney in Australia will visit Penn State in October. Her visit will include two public lectures on statistical regularities and statistical learning in reading and language acquisition.
The Penn State Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders has earned accreditation for its speech-language pathology master of science program from the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
A group of Penn State researchers have received a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to address a shortage of faculty who can conduct research and train speech-language pathologists to provide interventions to improve outcomes for the more than four million Americans who have such complex disabilities that they cannot meet their communication needs through their own speech.
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State will partner with the University’s College of Health and Human Development and the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders to present “Let’s Dance,” a movement workshop for families.
An expert in dysphagia, or swallowing disorders, is now a member of the faculty in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Penn State.
Penn State recently hosted Pennsylvania’s first Deaf and Hard of Hearing Summer Academy, which is designed to prepare deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind high school students for their transition to higher education.
The College of Health and Human Development announces its 2017 student recipients of the Francis Hoffman Award for Excellence in Writing.
Penn State recently hosted the Doctoral Student Research Think Tank in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in order to support the research community that strives to improve outcomes for people with complex disabilities and their families.
The College of Health and Human Development recently hosted the Online Faculty Conference as an opportunity to promote and facilitate successful online teaching at the collegiate level.
Gabrielle Matarazzo, daughter of Laura and John Matarazzo, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, will be the Health and Human Development college marshal for the spring 2017 commencement ceremony on May 6.
A new course at Penn State brings together students with disabilities, students pursuing careers to support people with disabilities, and students studying theatre.
Aphasia, a language disorder commonly diagnosed in stroke patients, may not be solely a language issue as traditionally believed, according to a study by Penn State researchers. The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.
Two Penn State graduate students, with the assistance of two faculty members, have developed a tutorial for speech-language pathologists designed to better include parents and other family members in communication interventions for children whose speech does not adequately meet their communication needs due to autism or other disorders.
The Speech-Language Pathology Master of Science program in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Penn State is undergoing an accreditation review and site visit in 2017. As part of the site visit, a public meeting will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 20, in 111 Chambers Building, University Park.
The Voz Box is the result of Project Vive, founded by Mary Elizabeth McCulloch, a 2016 graduate of the Penn State College of Engineering and Schreyer Honors College. The company, inspired by her time as an exchange student in Ecuador where she volunteered at an orphanage for children and adults with disabilities, works to give a voice to the voiceless.
