Winners in all eight categories of the 2024 Civic Engagement Awards were named as part of Illinois State University’s annual Civic Engagement Celebration.
2024 Civic Engagement award winners announced
Unit: Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic
Brain injuries and communication therapy
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are trained to assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, cognitive and communication disorders in individuals who suffer from brain injuries. Therapy provided by SLPs can help individuals regain the ability to communicate effectively and regain cognitive skills that were affected by the injury.
Cochlear implants: Could you be a candidate?
What are cochlear implants? Would you be a candidate?
Tinnitus awareness tips
Strategies to assist with ringing in the ears.
CSD film series addresses literacy instruction gaps
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.
Audiology program provides new community outreach
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.
Is tinnitus a problem? Hearing aids may be part of the solution
Carefully selected and expertly fit hearing aids can be a powerful treatment tool for managing bothersome tinnitus, with and without significant hearing loss.
Tinnitus and COVID-19 infection and vaccination: Is there a connection?
While more studies with larger numbers of participants are needed to say for sure, there does seem to be a connection between coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and tinnitus.
Living Our Values: Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic
Employees of the Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic were recently honored with the University’s Living Our Values Award for their commitment to the institutional value of Learning and Scholarship.
Barriers to health care for transgender individuals
An inability to access health care can be dangerous-both physically and mentally. For those who identify as transgender, even the idea of seeking care can be stifled by fear of prejudice.
