Category Archives: Communicative Disorders

Chancellor’s Leadership Award honors graduates

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Each semester, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s best and brightest student leaders are presented with the Chancellor’s Leadership Award. This spring, 18 students from the College of Professional Studies have been selected for this honor. These students are a select group of graduating seniors who throughout their careers at the UWSP have contributed significant leadership, […]

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WSHA honors communicative disorders students

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Three second-year communicative disorders graduate students from UW-Stevens Point were awarded scholarships at the Wisconsin Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Association (WSHA) annual conference Feb. 21-23 at the Wilderness Hotel and Golf Resort in Wisconsin Dells. [Photo Gallery] Alyssa Blahnik earned the Judith H. and David. J. Ward Scholarship, while  Jennifer Sabally and Katherine Pensinger won […]

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Life as a graduate student in communicative disorders

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I will never forget the day that I received my acceptance letter to the graduate program in the School of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I cried out of joy for, what felt like, a week straight. This major is extremely competitive with only 150 out of 1,500 applicants applying throughout the […]

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CPS dean’s list reaches record number for fall 2012

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The most successful semester ever is in the books in the College of Professional Studies at UW-Stevens Point as the dean’s list reached a record number. A total of 529 students earned a GPA over 3.75, including 169 with a perfect 4.0, to earn dean’s list honors. Congratulations to all! Students with 4.0 by major: Elementary […]

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Chancellor’s Leadership Award recipients for winter 2012

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University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s best and brightest student leaders are presented with the Chancellor’s Leadership Award. This winter, nine students from the College of Professional Studies have been selected for this honor. These students are a select group of graduating seniors who throughout their careers at the UWSP have contributed significant leadership, demonstrated campus and/or […]

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Learning how to respond to people with aphasia

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In an emergency, communication is key. But what happens when someone is unable to communicate to first responders or medical personnel? First-year graduate student Jim McMahon and Professor Julia King, Ph.D. from the UW-Stevens Point School of Communicative Disorders visited the Stevens Point Fire Department this week to present about aphasia, an impairment of language […]

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Bye Bye Brazil, Hello Memories

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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. The perfect journey is circular…the joy of departure and the joy of return. ~Dino Basili I am finally getting around to a final wrap-up […]

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Cleft Palates, Crouzon Syndrome & Curta Curtitiba

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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 we all stayed together in one big group as we watched 11 nasoendoscopies to assess velopharyngeal function (where the soft palate should come […]

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Surgeries & Stilettos

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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. I thought I would begin by describing our typical daily schedule here at CAIF. Everyone is up between 6-6:30 a.m. for breakfast and we […]

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CAIF Rotations & Charrascaria

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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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