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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

  • Graduate Program Acceptees

  • Awards

    • A number of CSD students received awards at the 7th Annual Dewar College of Education Celebration of Students Awards:
      • Caroline Brown was named the Most Oustanding Undergraduate Student
      • Laura Conger received the Sonny Martin Scholarship
      • Melanie Yeomans received the Deserving Student Scholarship
      • Chelsie Hooks received the Valdosta Junior Service League Speech and Language Pathology Scholarship
      • Leigh Hamm received the Eva Carroll Herndon Scholarship
      • Karena Hall received the Most Outstanding National Student Speech Speech-Language Hearing (NSHLLA) Student Award

Graduate Students

    • Awards

      • Noel Stuckey was named the Most Oustanding Graduate Student
      • Angelique Walker was named Student Teacher of the Year (Fall 2008)
      • Miranda Brantley was named Student Teacher of the Year

         

    • Research

      • Leah Yates successfully defended her thesis, "Volubility of Infant Vocalizations" in November 2009.
      • Amanda Hoehn successfully defended her thesis, "Speech Perception and Lexical Retrieval Among Individuals with and without Early Alzheimer's Disease" in July 2009. She has accepted a CF position with Select Medical Rehabilitation in Washington Court House, OH.
      • Tracey Samuels successfully defended her thesis, "Voice Production in Young Women as a Function of Oral Contraceptive Type and Use" in November 2008. She has accepted a CF position with Deborah L. Curlee Communication Consultants in Nashville, TN.
      • Corinne Cabral successfully defended her thesis, “Acoustic Correlates of Glottal Opening” in July 2008.  She has accepted a CF position with Gildar & Associates in Tampa, FL.
      • Theses currently in progress:
        • Allison Boggs: "A Feedback Analysis of Normal Speakers Under the Influence of Tongue Twisters"
        • Brooke Flanagan: "The Value of Vowel Drills in ESL 'R' Remediation Therapy"
        • Christina Morelli: "Personality and Voice Quality in College-Aged Women"
        • Jessie Nelson: "An Analysis of Conversational Turn-Taking in a Toddler with Complete Agensis of the Corpus Callosum"
        • Bryn Petty: "The Effects of Using a Multi-Modal Approach to Increase Expressive Language Skills in Toddlers Diagnosed with Apraxia of Speech"
      • Student presentations at the Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Convention (GSHA) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention (ASHA)