Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences students successfully completed its tenth annual student research day, featuring oral presentations from PhD students and two poster sessions. Topics covered included autism spectrum disorder, aphasia after stroke, cochlear implant use, among others. The research day was held in the Koury Oral Health Sciences building on Friday, April 27.

Sallie Nowell, a doctoral student in the UNC School of Medicine’s Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has received the 2018 Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service by a Graduate or Professional Student. The award recognizes a graduate or professional student with outstanding character, scholarship, leadership and service to UNC-Chapel Hill. The Graduate School presented the … Read more

On Friday, April 20, attendees of the David E. Yoder Symposium had the opportunity to learn about identifying and treating young children with speech and language disorders. The symposium, hosted every two years by the Department of Allied Health Sciences’ Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, featured Christine A. Dollaghan, PhD, CCC-SLP, a professor at … Read more

On April 13, 2018, first-year audiology graduate students in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences’ Doctor of Audiology (AuD) program participated in a training lab where they observed visual reinforcement audiometry, a behavioral assessment procedure used to estimate hearing levels in young children. The technique was demonstrated by Dr. Patricia Roush who directs the … Read more