Tag Archives: speech

Learning how to respond to people with aphasia

Written by UWSPcps - November 6, 2012 at 2:38 pm. Comments Off Tags: Aphasia, EMT, firefighters, first responders, speech, Stevens Point, University of Wisconsin, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP

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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Athletes at risk of Vocal Cord Dysfunction

Written by UWSPcps - April 11, 2012 at 10:12 pm. Comments Off Tags: speech, speech-language pathology, Stevens Point, University of Wisconsin, UW-Stevens Point, UWSP

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, […]

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