Author Archives: Elizabeth Poindexter

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....

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,...

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....