A group of 15 UW-Stevens Point speech-language pathology graduate students are on a 12-day trip to the Center for Cleft Lip and Palate Care (CAIF) in Curitiba, Brazil. By Pam Terrell, Ph.D. Today at CAIF the students rotated through psychology, orthodontia, genetics, and pediatrics. While they were doing that, I got to go in and observe […]
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First Day at CAIF
A group of 15 UW-Stevens Point speech-language pathology graduate students are on a 12-day trip to the Center for Cleft Lip and Palate Care (CAIF) in Curitiba, Brazil. By Pam Terrell, Ph.D. Today was the first day at CAIF (Center for Cleft Lip and Palate Care). Two groups of students got to observe surgery–cleft lip and […]
More...Arriving in Brazil
A group of 15 UW-Stevens Point speech-language pathology graduate students are on a 12-day trip to the Center for Cleft Lip and Palate Care (CAIF) in Curitiba, Brazil. By Pam Terrell, Ph.D. We arrived safe and sound, with all of our luggage, on Saturday afternoon. We took some time to unpack, shower, and rest a bit […]
More...Athletes at risk of Vocal Cord Dysfunction
Yelling for an entire game, coaches are usually the ones hoarse in the post-game press conference, but athletes are also at risk for vocal cord problems as Mary Day, MS, CCC-SLP, clinical associate professor of communicative disorders at UW-Stevens Point, explained in her free presentation “Vocal Cord Dysfunction in Student-Athletes” at Ministry Health Care on Wednesday, […]
More...UWSP alumni attend state speech-language conference
Nearly 100 UW-Stevens Point alumni were in attendance at the 10th Annual CESA 5 School-Based Speech-Language Pathology Institute March 5-6 at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. The state-wide conference provides speech-language pathologists (SLPs) hands-on, ready-to-replicate strategies and techniques to benefit the students they serve with speech-language disabilities. The conference also provides an opportunity for […]
More...Communicative Disorders offers hearing screenings to UWSP employees
Nearly 30 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point faculty and staff took advantage of free hearing screenings offered for UWSP employees by the School of Communicative Disorders in January. Supervised by faculty, audiology graduate students conducted the 20-minute screenings. The screenings began with questions about the individual’s medical and hearing history. Then an otoscopic exam was preformed, […]
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