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

Amanda Alexander, Rachel Blalock, Kristen Brown, Stephanie Crook, Jennifer Hansen, Anna Henderson, Ashley Herren, Genesis Jackson, Lacy Kelley, Emily Langston, Maria Leiva, Sara Lively, Stephanie Miller, Ava Myers, Corie Parfitt, Marion Pittman, Lauren Register, Mollie Riggins, Gianina Romito, Casey Rovinski, David Sampson, Jessica Usry 

Awards

A number of CSD students received awards at the 10th Annual Dewar College of Education Celebration of Students Awards

Outstanding CSD Undergraduate Student: Sara Lively

Runner up: Christina Resolus

Outstanding NSSHLA Student: David Sampson

Runner up: Molly Riggins

Dr. Robert A. Hull Scholarship: Edith Hodges

Jim and Mary Threatte Scholarship: Valerie Dykes

Mattie H. Dewar Scholarship: Erinn Lucas

Ola M. Brown Scholarship: Atlanta Clements

Valdosta Junior Service League Scholarship: Chelsea Bartholomew

Graduate Students

Awards

Outstanding CSD Graduate Student: Erin Russo

Runner up: Sara Thrash and Kristin Woyak (tie)

Outstanding Student Teacher - Fall: Kate Wilkerson

Runner up: Caroline Kellum

Outstanding Student Teacher - Spring: Lauren Fahey

Runner up: Amanda Lockard

Outstanding Clinician of the Year: Meg Moulton

Runner up: Natalie Smith

Sonny Martin Scholarship: Stephanie Kirk

Research

In Progress

Brittany Bryant: "Voice Characteristics Associated with Moderately Overweight Females"

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)

Presentations

Student presentations at the Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Convention (GSHA) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention (ASHA)