News
Nicole Corbin Receives 2018 CAPSCD Scholarship
Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences PhD student Nicole Corbin received the 2018 Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD) PhD scholarship. The scholarship provides $20,000, to support the completion of the PhD program. Corbin’s dissertation project is titled “Spatial Hearing and Functional Auditory Skills in Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss.” She … Read more
Elizabeth Crais, PhD, Featured as Expert in Baby Sign Language
Elizabeth Crais, PhD, speech-language pathologist and professor and coordinator of the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences PhD program, spoke recently to The Epoch Times and to Healthline about teaching babies sign language. Her research shows that facilitating a child’s communication will help their language and communication skills.
Letter from the director
It is such a pleasure to send greetings and warm wishes to all of you. The 2017-18 academic year was exciting and productive. It was also a year of change within the division. We welcomed Drs. Lindsey Byom and Hannah Siburt as members of the faculty. We also hosted a retirement celebration for Dr. Melody … Read more
Elizabeth Crais, PhD, Elected to ASHA 2019 Board of Directors
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) members have selected Elizabeth (Betsy) Crais to serve on the ASHA Board of Directors as the vice president for academic affairs in speech-language pathology. Her term will begin January 1, 2019, and she will serve a three-year term. Crais, a longtime member of ASHA and former chair of its academic … Read more
Yanny or Laurel? Our Audiologist, Philip Griffin, Weighs In
Several media outlets turned to Philip Griffin, AuD, to resolve an issue raised by a viral video. Do you hear Yanny or Laurel? And why is that the case? Watch the news stories below to learn more about this phenomenon: WTVD WRAL The News & Observer
Tenth Annual Student Research Day
Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences students successfully completed its tenth annual student research day, featuring oral presentations from PhD students and two poster sessions. Topics covered included autism spectrum disorder, aphasia after stroke, cochlear implant use, among others. The research day was held in the Koury Oral Health Sciences building on Friday, April 27.
Sallie Nowell Receives 2018 Boka W. Hadzija Award
Sallie Nowell, a doctoral student in the UNC School of Medicine’s Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has received the 2018 Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service by a Graduate or Professional Student. The award recognizes a graduate or professional student with outstanding character, scholarship, leadership and service to UNC-Chapel Hill. The Graduate School presented the … Read more
2018 David E. Yoder Symposium
On Friday, April 20, attendees of the David E. Yoder Symposium had the opportunity to learn about identifying and treating young children with speech and language disorders. The symposium, hosted every two years by the Department of Allied Health Sciences’ Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, featured Christine A. Dollaghan, PhD, CCC-SLP, a professor at … Read more
First-Year Audiology Students Participate in Training Lab with Young Children
On April 13, 2018, first-year audiology graduate students in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences’ Doctor of Audiology (AuD) program participated in a training lab where they observed visual reinforcement audiometry, a behavioral assessment procedure used to estimate hearing levels in young children. The technique was demonstrated by Dr. Patricia Roush who directs the … Read more