After a hiatus in travel due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) students and faculty are back to traveling the globe. Study abroad provides students with the opportunity to experience other cultures, form stronger relationships with the faculty and fellow students, and connect with individuals around the world. The CSD department offers two trips every year: one during Spring break and one during Winter break.
Our voice is an important aspect of our daily lives. We need our voice to effectively communicate. If changes occur in our voice, they may cause a person to avoid social interactions and become frustrated from having to repeat themselves.
CSD has so far been awarded two Provost Innovation & Enhancement (PIE) grants to support its efforts to increase enrollment and recruit a diverse student body more representative of the individuals receiving audiology and speech-language pathology services.
Signs to determine the need for speech and language services
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Twenty students and four CSD faculty—Amy Yacucci, Trish Larkin, Kim Adelman, and Lindsay Diekhoff—traveled to Belize, visiting San Ignacio, Belmopan, and Caye Caulker. While in the country, students engaged in clinical experiences under the direct supervision of their licensed speech-language pathology faculty.
This semester the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders launched a new campaign to highlight our alums: CSD Alumni Spotlight.
Illinois’ poor reading scores, which have remained stagnant for over 17 years, demonstrate that children with dyslexia are not the only children in Illinois schools who are struggling to learn to read under current instructional methods. The Right to Read documentary follows Oakland NAACP activist, Kareem Weaver, who believes literacy is our most important civil right.
This outreach program provided hearing care to some of the more compromised sisters for whom traveling to the Bloomington area would have been a hardship.
