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csd students shine
Our students represent the future of our field! Our students are leaders in community service programs, academic awards, and research projects in the field of communication sciences and disorders. They maintain an active chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association; click here for the latest news from the VSU NSSLHA. We are proud of their accomplishments and fully support them in their endeavors.
Undergraduate Students
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Graduate Program Acceptees
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Awards
- A number of CSD students received awards at the 9th Annual Dewar College of Education Celebration of Students Awards:
- Alyssa Jacobson: Outstanding Student of the College of Education, Outstanding CSD Undergraduate Student
- Dilshad Kachra: Valdosta Junior Service League Scholarship
- A number of CSD students received awards at the 9th Annual Dewar College of Education Celebration of Students Awards:
Graduate Students
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Awards
- Megan Marchant : Outstanding CSD Graduate Student
- Elizabeth James: Outstanding Student Teacher
- Whitney Chitty: Outstanding Student Teacher
- Karena Hall: Outstanding Clinician of the Year
- Melanie Yeoman: Runner up Clinician of the Year
Research
- Theses currently in progress:
- Brittany Bryant: "Voice Characteristics Associated with Moderately Overweight Females"
- Amy Dobner: "Effect of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on Continuous Voicing"
- Hayley Holbrook: "Changes in Blood Pressure Associated with Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
- Miranda Larimore: "Blood Lactate Levels Associated with Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation"
- Katherine Sanabria: "Physiological Effects of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation to the Laryngeal Area "
- Kristin Woyak : "Acoustic/Spectral Analysis of Sustained Voice Production During Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation"
- Completed Theses:
- Christina Morelli:"Personality and Voice Quality in College-Aged Women" (July 2010)
- Bryn Petty:" A Multi-Modal Intervention Approach For Childhood Apraxia of Speech" (July 2010)
- Brooke Flanagan:"The Value of Vowel Drills in ESL 'R' Remediation Therapy" (April 2010)
- Jessie Nelson: "An Analysis of Conversational Turn-Taking in a Toddler with Complete Agensis of the Corpus Callosum" (April 2010)
- Leah Yates: "Volubility of Infant Vocalizations" (November 2009)
- Amanda Hoehn: "Speech Perception and Lexical Retrieval Among Individuals with and without Early Alzheimer's Disease" (July 2009)
- Tracey Samuels: "Voice Production in Young Women as a Function of Oral Contraceptive Type and Use" (November 2008)
- Corinne Cabral: “Acoustic Correlates of Glottal Opening” (July 2008)
- Student presentations at the Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Convention (GSHA) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention (ASHA)
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