A poster by audiology student Kassondra Hemmen, along with Blythe Kitner, Audiology clinical assistant professor, has been nominated for an American Academy of Audiology Foundation James and Susan Jerger Award for Excellent in Student Research. Their poster, “PP1507: Quantifying Aging Effects on the
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Project offering free hearing tests and compensation for research testing
Charles Pudrith, NIU assistant audiology professor, wants to find out if genetic variants explain susceptibility to acquired hearing loss and he needs your help – especially if you’re a musician. Charles Pudrith and student Elizabeth Pawlica work on hearing research. Pudrith is
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AHCD students team up to learn new perspectives
Graduate students from audiology, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology have found a way to ‘SPARC’ dialog with each other. Students Promoting Active Reflection and Conversations (SPARC) was created to facilitate communication between the Allied Health and Communicative Disorders students whose classes are
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Audiology professor quoted in The Hearing Review
NIU’s Mariah N. Cheyney, Au.D, clinical assistant professor audiology, provided comments about Illinois’ new law requiring insurers to cover replacement costs of hearing aids every three years for children with hearing loss 18 and younger. Her story about the issue appeared in
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Professor to present at international audiology congress
NIU Professor and Audiology Program Coordinator King Chung will present her research at the World Congress of Audiology, Cape Town, South Africa this October. She will present “Cognitive Functions of Older Adults and their Ability to Complete Different Automatic Hearing Screening Applications.” Here
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Audiology Day celebrates accomplishments
Recently NIU’s Student Academy of Audiology held their white coat ceremony and capstone project presentations for the program’s third-year students. These students are now off to participate in their externships: Anastasia Grindle: Boys Town National Research Hospital (Omaha, Nebraska) Kassy Hemmen: Space
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Message from Dean Derryl Block
Welcome summer! It took a while to get here, but we are happy to be enjoying the sunshine and reflecting on an eventful spring semester at the NIU College of Health and Human Sciences. We have some exciting new changes underway. This
Read moreFaculty and staff research publications 2017
The faculty and staff at the College of Health and Human Sciences continually conduct research and publish their findings in academic journals and industry publications throughout the year. The following is a list of all published works by CHHS faculty and staff
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NIU Audiology professors have an explanation about the Yanny vs. Laurel audio file debate
This week social media users got into a heated debate over a four second audio file that originated on Reddit and made its way to Twitter: What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel pic.twitter.com/jvHhCbMc8I — Cloe Feldman (@CloeCouture) May 15, 2018 Don’t
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Connect and Discover: Focus of AHCD Graduate Colloquium Seminar
Tina Childress, an educational audiologist at the Illinois School for the Deaf in Urbana, Illinois, will present “Connect and Discover,” at the ACHD Graduate Colloquium Seminar, 3:30 p.m., April 30 at the Holmes Student Center Sky Room. Childress has expertise in cochlear
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Huskie spotlight focuses on audiology professor
Blythe Kitner, an audiology instructor and recipient of an NIU Presidential Commission on the Status of Women Outstanding Mentor Award, has become one of the university faculty featured in a Huskie Spotlight. Read her story.
Read moreInterprofessional Case Study event a success
Over 260 students from several area universities and healthcare groups recently participated in an Interprofessional Case Study event here. Led by School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders Chair Sherrill Morris, and School of Health Studies Dietetics Intern Coordinator Nancy Prange, students studied
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