Category: News
Elizabeth Crais, PhD, Elected to ASHA 2019 Board of Directors
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) members have selected Elizabeth (Betsy) Crais to serve on the ASHA Board of Directors as the vice president for academic affairs in speech-language pathology. Her term will begin January 1, 2019, and she will serve a three-year term. Crais, a longtime member of ASHA and former chair of its academic affairs board, was instrum … Read more
Yanny or Laurel? Our Audiologist, Philip Griffin, Weighs In
Several media outlets turned to Philip Griffin, AuD, to resolve an issue raised by a viral video. Do you hear Yanny or Laurel? And why is that the case? Watch the news stories below to learn more about this phenomenon: WTVD WRAL The News & Observer
Tenth Annual Student Research Day
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 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more