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Speech-Language-Hearing Center
1700 Lomas Blvd. NE Suite 1300
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 277-4453
Fax: (505) 277-0968
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Hodgin Hall, Bobo Room
5:00-6:30 p.m.
The Speech and Hearing Sciences Department invites alumni to join academic and clinical faculty from the department for wine and light hors d’oeuvres. Please RSVP by April 27th to Tracy at 277-0823.
SHS undergraduate students Jennifer L. Mahoney & Marin D. Schweigert took 4th place in the poster board category at the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Contest held on April 10, 2012. The contest allows UNM undergraduates to present their research, creative projects, inventions, performances, or work, and is held annually in the Student Union Building. Mahoney and Schweigert will share the cash prize.
POSTPONED
NSSLHA's annual Yard Sale has been postponed until the Fall semester.
If you have any items you'd like to donate to the sale, please call Tracy at 277-0823 before dropping off any donations. We have a limited amount of storage space, so if you have larger items, call Tracy to see if the item(s) can be accommodated. Donations will be accepted through summer.
Yard sale proceeds support the Lough Client Scholarship Fund.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Charlie's Sandbox
2109 Masthead St. NE
NSSLHA is holding their second annual Volleyball Tournament starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 21! The event is open to anyone who would like to play, and proceeds support the Lough Client Scholarship Fund, which provides financial assistance for low-income clients of the Department's in-house clinic.
Monday, April 16, 2012
10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
UNM Student Union Building, Alumni Room
Every year in mid-April, speech language pathologists, otolaryngologists, head and neck surgeons and other voice health professionals worldwide join together to recognize World Voice Day.
This year, the UNM Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences will join in this event by sponsoring vocal education and vocal health screenings.
Please see flyer for more information.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
4:30-6:30 pm
UNM Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Agencies from Albuquerque and the surrounding areas will be attending. This event will give our students an opportunity to meet with future employers and off-site supervisors.
The event is required of all second year graduate students and will be a portion of the 558 internship class. First year graduate students have the option to attend from 5:30pm – 6:30pm if they do not have clients or clinic responsibilities at that time.
Monday, March 26, 2012
4:30-6:30 pm
UNM Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
1700 Lomas NE, Suite 1300
Albuquerque, NM 87106
(SE corner of University and Lomas)
Thursday, February 9, 2012
4:30-6:30 pm
UNM Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
1700 Lomas NE, Suite 1300
Albuquerque, NM 87106
(SE corner of University and Lomas)
RSVP to Megan & Karl by Tuesday, February 7
The department has developed a new alumni newsletter, to be mailed to over 700 Speech and Hearing Sciences and Communication Disorders alumni. Future editions will feature stories about current activities in the department, alumni profiles, and upcoming continuing education and training opportunities.
A copy of the newsletter is available online here.
We are proud to announce that three undergraduate students majoring in UNM’s Speech and Hearing Science program have been accepted into the prestigious Ronald E. McNair Program.
The McNair program is committed to increasing the number of students in doctoral degree programs who come from low-income and first generation backgrounds or who are members of traditionally underrepresented groups. McNair Scholars are chosen each year to participate in an intense research and graduate preparation programs to help ensure their long-term academic success. Congratulations, Quynh, Elena, and Kari!
Associate Professor Cathy Binger has been awarded a research grant from the National Institutes of Health. This three-year research project focuses on helping children with disabilities improve their language skills. The children in the study have severe speech disorders and augment their speech by using other forms of communication, such as 'talking computers.' This intervention study will examine how children using these augmentative communication modes learn the same language rules that other children learn. For example, how do children using talking computers learn to put adjectives before nouns (WET + DOG) and actions before objects (KISS + BABY) when they are using a computer that talks for them? This project promises to help us better understand how ensure that children with severe speech disorders master the same language rules as other children so that they can reach their full linguistic potential.
SHS graduate Rosario Roman was recently awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA.) SHS graduate Mary Hooper was recently named ASHA fellow.
Katharine Blaker, M.S. CCC-SLP, is taking part in a research study this semester, designed to explore the pros and cons of using a process-based/adult-centered approach to clinical supervision in speech-language pathology. This study will be conducted by Patrick R. Walden, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. John’s University, Staten Island, New York and Monica Gordon-Pershey, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, in the Speech and Hearing Program in the School of Health Sciences, Cleveland State University. Emphasis is on mentoring students through a reflective learning process.
Barbara Rodriguez was recently chosen to be honored by the Communication Disorders Program at New Mexico State University as a Friend of CD. This honor is given to individuals who have contributed to the field of speech-language pathology or audiology through the community or the NMSU Communication Disorders Programs and its Edgar R. Garrett Speech and Hearing Center. A reception was held at NMSU on September 15, 2011 to honor this year's recipients.
Classification Accuracy of Brief Parent Report Measures of Language Development in Spanish-Speaking Toddlers
Mark Guiberson, Barbara L. Rodríguez, and Philip S. Dale
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 2011;42 536-549
http://lshss.asha.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/4/536