Illinois has at least 15 regional groups that meet regularly and provide continuing education opportunities.
Getting involved in the profession
Unit: Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic
CSD students partake in homecoming festivities
CSD students and department members successfully celebrated Homecoming 2017 in a number of ways.
Graduate students support domestic violence awareness month
Fellow speech pathology graduate students donned purple to support Elizabeth Rice, who lost her mother to domestic violence.
CSD students educate their peers about the voice and its disorders during inside your voice event
Undergraduate tudents prepared and disseminated a vocal health education program, Inside Your Voice (IYV) at Bone Student Center.
CSD study abroad program
Grades for the independent study are based on more than just travel. Students are expected to attend regularly scheduled meetings to plan for travel, conduct research on an aspect of the travel experience to share with fellow travelers, set personal goals for travel, and write a reflection after travel to discuss what they learned.
CSD clinic offers transgender voice services
Beginning in the fall of 2017, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders was pleased to welcome individuals seeking transgender voice therapy services to be clients at the Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic. Community outreach and promoting awareness on the topic were the first and largest aspects of preparation.
CSD graduate student elected to national NSSLHA chapter
Sarah Sadler, first year Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) graduate student, has been elected the Vice President for SLP Programming of the National NSSLHA Chapter. She encourages other students to get involved and not be intimidated by opportunities that may seem out of reach.
CSD senior selected for national minority leadership program
Cosette Groisiller, a Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) senior, was selected to participate in the Minority Student Leadership Program (MSLP) offered by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She is one of 40 students, from 200 applicants.
CSD students use virtual case studies for professional training
Communication issues addressed in CSD 422: Assessment Across the Lifespan included: voice, expressive language, motor speech, pragmatic language, language differences, phonology, augmentative-alternative communication, fluency, written language, cognitive-communication, and aphasia.
CSD senior creates organization for transfer students
During the 2017 spring semester, Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) senior Kaylee Sienza created the first-ever CSD transfer group student organization.
