Ellyn Grider, a second year audiology student, and graduate assistant for the NIU Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic, has created a series of hearing-related education tools to help navigate challenges during COVID-19. Check them out.
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Semantic Learning in ASD and DLD
In April 2020, Allison Gladfelter, assistant professor, and NIU alum, Kacy Barron, published an article titled “How Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Language Disorder, and Typical Language Learn to Produce Global and Local Semantic Features” in the journal, Brain Sciences (https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/4/231).
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CHHS donates PPE to DeKalb Fire Department to battle COVID-19
The Northern Illinois University College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) donated several dozen boxes of personal protective equipment to the DeKalb Fire Department Monday to help prepare the community to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. CHHS donated exam gloves in all sizes,
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Artistic director of TCU School of Medicine presents clinics to CHHS students
Training speakers to connect more empathetically, whether they are physicians, other medical professionals, students or actors, is something Val Lantz-Gefroh has been training all her life for. Even if she didn’t know it at first. She will be in DeKalb, March 20
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Collaboration skills focus of Interdisciplinary Case Study
Over 170 students from NIU and University of Illinois at Chicago met last week for the annual Interdisciplinary Case Study. Students in NIU’s audiology, dietetics, medical laboratory science, nursing, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology, and pharmacy students from UIC participated in a
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Undergraduate research project goes the distance
Cassidy VanZuiden’s Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day (URAD) project — exploring why children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) echo or parody speech — grew into a national award-winning project and then a published research paper in a prestigious journal. VanZuiden, who graduated
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Alumni Profile: Eboni King-Reed, SLP
Graduated: May 2009 Degree: Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology Experience at NIU: Eboni received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from NIU. Some of Eboni’s most memorable experiences include her clinical work at Kishwaukee Hospital doing swallowing study practice, working with tracheostomy and
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Alumni Profile: Artice Weston Jr., Au.D.
Graduated: December 2007 Degree: B.S., Communicative Disorders Experience at NIU: Artice was involved with the Communicative Disorders Student Association and Communicative Disorder Reform by Advocating Diversity (COMRAD) as an undergraduate, which helped him develop and discover his identity and voice as a
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Alumni Profile: Anomis Dula, Au.D.
Graduated: May 2010 Degree: Doctor of Audiology Experience at NIU: Anomis describes her experience at NIU as unforgettable. She praises the academic and clinical teams which pushed her to think critically in the clinic, the classroom and the real-world. Anomis has great
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Alumni Profile: Regina Kelly, SLP
Graduated: May 2006 Degree: Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology Experience at NIU: Regina was a non-traditional student who attended NIU in search of her second profession after a career change from accounting. She served as Dr. Sherrill Morris’ teaching assistant for COMD 221
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Student Profile: Ken Barnett
Graduated: May 2016 Degree: B.S. Health Sciences- Pre-Physical Therapy Current Doctor of Physical Therapy Student (DPT) Experience at NIU: Ken’s undergraduate experience at NIU assisted him in improving his cognitive and interpersonal abilities to be as best prepared for his graduate student
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Student profile: Jamal Roper, MS Ed. CSCS, SPT
Graduated: August 2015, May 2019 Degree: B.S. Kinesiology, M.S. Ed. Exercise Physiology Current Doctor of Physical Therapy Student (DPT) Experience at NIU: Jamal attended NIU for both his bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology and Master’s in Exercise Physiology. He is now a second-year
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