NIU Speech Language Hearing Clinic – College of Health and Human Sciences

AHCD students team up to learn new perspectives

September 12, 2018 lbotterman1@niu.edu Allied Health and Communicative Disorders, Students

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

NIU clinic offering aphasia treatment group

June 8, 2017 lbotterman1@niu.edu Allied Health and Communicative Disorders, Speech-Language Pathology

June is National Aphasia Month. Aphasia is a communication disorder affecting over 2 million Americans. According to the National Aphasia Association, aphasia is an impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write. It