Category: News
Patricia Johnson, AuD, Featured as News Expert on Reverse-Slope Hearing Loss
Patricia Johnson, AuD, and an clinic manager and audiologist at the UNC Hearing and Communication Center, was recently featured as an expert on reverse-slope hearing loss. Read the full story
Megan Bartoshuk Receives Student Academy of Audiology 2018 Empowering Students Scholarship
Megan Bartoshuk, a second-year Doctor of Audiology student, has received a 2018 Empowering Students Scholarship from the Student Academy of Audiology. Megan Bartoshuk, AuD student Read more
Your Health Radio features Patricia Johnson, AuD
Your Health Radio, an initiative of UNC Family Medicine, featured Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences faculty member Patricia Johnson, AuD, in an episode on healthy hearing. Listen to the episode
Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences Students Present Award-Winning Research at 2018 ASHA Convention
Faculty and students from the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences presented research at the 2018 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association conference, held in Boston, Massachusetts. Several current and former PhD students received recognition for their research. Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development Awarded $2,000 Ashwaq A. Alzamel PhD Candidate, U … Read more
2018 Brochure: Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences
2018 Brochure: Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences
UNC Hearing and Communication Center Audiologist Opens Vestibular Clinic to Help Patients Balance Dizziness Symptoms
The UNC Hearing and Communication Center (UNC HCC) has opened an outpatient vestibular clinic to assess dizziness and vertigo—the first of its kind in the UNC Health Care system. Philip Griffin, AuD, speaks with a patient at the UNC Hearing and Communication Center. Led by Philip Griffin, AuD, the clinic will provide a variety of services related to the vestibular system, a senso … Read more
Third-Year Doctor of Audiology Student Arielle Abrams Finds Passion by Sharing her Hearing Loss Story
Arielle Abrams is a third-year Doctor of Audiology student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences who hopes her experience with hearing loss will positively influence the field of audiology from the standpoint of patient care and research. An audiologist diagnosed Abrams with hearing loss when she was one-and-a-half years old. “I grew up going to audiologists all the time … Read more
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Roush and McComish Awarded $1.3 Million to Prepare Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists to Serve Children with Hearing Loss and Developmental Disabilities
Jackson Roush, PhD, and Cara McComish, PhD, both faculty within the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, have received two federally funded training grants totaling $1.3 million. The four-year grants will prepare future audiologists and speech-language pathologists to work with children who have autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities, in addition to hea … Read more
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Bartoshuk Receives Scholarship from American Academy of Audiology
Second-year audiology student Megan Bartoshuk has received the American Academy of Audiology Foundation’s Empowering Students Scholarship. This scholarship, which includes a $5,000 award, is presented annually to five students among nominees across the United States for academic excellence and exceptional promise as a clinical audiologist.
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Conference
Four first-year LEND AuD students brought home a blue ribbon in the student poster category at the national Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) conference in Denver, Colorado. The poster was titled: “Screening, Diagnosis, and Audiologic Management of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities,” It summarized the first part of a larger project inspired by the wor … Read more