b'An Understanding of a Career in Communication Sciences and DisordersKendra Hall, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders and Special EducationFaculty Sponsor: Dr. Theodore Johnson, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders and Special EducationA degree in communication sciences and disorders has an intensely broad scope. There are multiple students in this major who may only be aware of two career options. With a degree in communication sciences and disorders one may discover various career options such as becoming a speech language pathologist or audiologist, obtaining certification in auditory verbal therapy, and pursuing an education specialist degree in special education. By being exposed to a vast number of choices within the scope of SLPs practice, one can make an educated decision about their potential occupations according to essential requirements. This poster highlights the realm of career choices within the field of communication sciences and disorders. The Relationship between Oral Reading and Diadochokinetic RatesMakayla Clark and Kristen Manfredi, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders and Special EducationFaculty Sponsors: Matthew Carter and Crystal Randolph, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Special EducationBoth reading fluency tasks and rapid automatized naming tasks are commonly used to assess a readers ability to efficiently and effortlessly access their sight word vocabulary, or lexicon. It is thought that those who are able to automatically access their lexicon can potentially devote more cognitive resources toward the act of comprehension. However, each of these tasks is heavily reliant upon the motoric task of articulating, which involves the organization and sequencing of speech sounds as the articulators continuously move into position to produce subsequent speech sounds. Diadochokinesis is the ability to make these smooth alternating movements in rapid succession and is analyzed using diadochokinetic rates, which increase trivially with age. No studies of oral reading automaticity have accounted for the impact that diadochokinesis may have on tasks of reading aloud. The current study examined the relationship among textual reading fluency, single-word reading fluency, rapid automatized naming, and diadochokinesis. 38'