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  • Graduate School Dean Steve Matson presents the 2018 Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service to Sallie Nowell. The Department of Allied Health Sciences houses the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences.

    Sallie Nowell Receives 2018 Boka W. Hadzija Award

    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 Sc … Continued

  • Christine A. Dollaghan, PhD, CCC-SLP, presents at the 2018 David E. Yoder Symposium.

    2018 David E. Yoder Symposium

    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 the University of Texa … Continued

  • Dr. Pat Roush plays with Cora Poindexter during a training lab for first-year audiology students held on April 13, 2018.

    First-Year Audiology Students Participate in Training Lab with Young Children

    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 pedi … Continued

  • Nancy Quick

    Quick Receives 2018 Impact Award

    The Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences’ Nancy Quick, PhD, is a recipient of the 2018 Impact Award, granted by the Graduate School. Nancy Quick, who recently graduated with a PhD from the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has received the Impact Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Graduate School. The Graduate School awarded 22 graduate student … Continued

  • Speech-Language Pathology Students Receive Awards From NCSHLA

    The North Carolina Speech Hearing and Language Association has recognized two UNC-Chapel Hill speech-language Pathology students with prestigious awards.  Margaret “Gretta” Richter received the NCSHLA Linguisystems Award. She is a graduate student in the SLP program at UNC-Chapel Hill who is an active member of the American Academy of Audiology, American Auditory Society, and NCS … Continued

  • Fourth-Year Audiology Student Emily Spitzer Published in Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

    An article by fourth-year audiology student Emily Spitzer was recently published in the October 2017 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. Emily R. Spitzer, a fourth-year audiology student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, was published in the October 2017 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. Her article is titled “Effect o … Continued