Patricia Johnson, AuD, and an clinic manager and audiologist at the UNC Hearing and Communication Center, was recently featured as an expert on reverse-slope hearing loss.
Megan Bartoshuk, a second-year Doctor of Audiology student, has received a 2018 Empowering Students Scholarship from the Student Academy of Audiology.
Your Health Radio, an initiative of UNC Family Medicine, featured Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences faculty member Patricia Johnson, AuD, in an episode on healthy hearing.
Faculty and students from the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences presented research at the 2018 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association conference, held in Boston, Massachusetts. Several current and former PhD students received recognition for their research. Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development Awarded $2,000 Ashwaq A. Alzamel PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina at … Read more
2018 Brochure: Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences
The UNC Hearing and Communication Center (UNC HCC) has opened an outpatient vestibular clinic to assess dizziness and vertigo—the first of its kind in the UNC Health Care system. Led by Philip Griffin, AuD, the clinic will provide a variety of services related to the vestibular system, a sensory system that contributes to a sense … Read more
Arielle Abrams is a third-year Doctor of Audiology student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences who hopes her experience with hearing loss will positively influence the field of audiology from the standpoint of patient care and research. An audiologist diagnosed Abrams with hearing loss when she was one-and-a-half years old. “I grew up … Read more
Jackson Roush, PhD, and Cara McComish, PhD, both faculty within the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, have received two federally funded training grants totaling $1.3 million. The four-year grants will prepare future audiologists and speech-language pathologists to work with children who have autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities, in addition to hearing loss. … Read more
Second-year audiology student Megan Bartoshuk has received the American Academy of Audiology Foundation’s Empowering Students Scholarship. This scholarship, which includes a $5,000 award, is presented annually to five students among nominees across the United States for academic excellence and exceptional promise as a clinical audiologist.
Four first-year LEND AuD students brought home a blue ribbon in the student poster category at the national Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) conference in Denver, Colorado. The poster was titled: “Screening, Diagnosis, and Audiologic Management of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities,” It summarized the first part of a larger project inspired by the … Read more