{"id":2293,"date":"2018-03-13T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/?page_id=2293"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:03:04","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty members and students are involved in various types of collaborative and interdisciplinary research across the lifespan. The broad scope of research endeavors address oral, written, and augmentative communication and communication disorders including autism, communication development in multicultural populations, hearing and psychoacoustics, literacy, and neurologic communication disorders in adults. Our research efforts align with the division\u2019s mission to advance the study of human communication processes through prevention, diagnosis and treatment of speech, language, and hearing disorders.<\/p>\n<h2>Our program includes:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nationally\/internationally recognized faculty at a world-acclaimed university<\/li>\n<li>Strong research focus across our MS, AuD, and PhD programs<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding clinical and internship sites<\/li>\n<li>Experienced clinical preceptors<\/li>\n<li>Located in North Carolina&#8217;s Research Triangle Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\" rule-thin osc-rule\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lAv0cHhsgZk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 0=\"allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><hr class=\" rule-thin osc-rule\" \/>\n<h2>Program partnerships<\/h2>\n<p>Speech and Hearing Sciences partners with several programs including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cidd.unc.edu\/Education\/LEND\/Default.aspx\">Leadership\u00a0Education in\u00a0Neurodevelopmental and Related\u00a0Disabilities<\/a><\/strong> (LEND), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/pearls\/\">Program for Early Autism Research, Leadership, and Service<\/a><\/strong> (PEARLS), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/card\/\"><strong>UNC Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders<\/strong><\/a> (CARD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty members and students are involved in various types of collaborative and interdisciplinary research across the lifespan. 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Our research efforts align with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/research\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Research\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55977,"featured_media":4301,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2293","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Research - Speech and Hearing Sciences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research - Speech and Hearing Sciences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Faculty members and students are involved in various types of collaborative and interdisciplinary research across the lifespan. 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