CSD students, if you are interested in learning more about our MA CSD Program, please join us on October 8th!!

On September 21st the SONiC Lab will be attending the 2024 Michigan Parkinson Foundation Hero Walk! The event runs from 9am-12pm and will start at People’s Park (Behind Wells Hall) on MSU’s campus. We hope to see you there! #parkinsonsdisease #SLPeeps

Congrats to Trent Henry for publishing his first peer-reviewed journal article as a PhD student!

CSD 813: Learning cranial nerves by creating Cranial Nerve Trading Cards

New Autism publication! "Continuing the Conversation about Echolalia and Gestalt Language Development: A Response to Haydock, Harrison, Baldwin, and Leadbitter" describes concerns that some ideas linked with gestalt language development lack theoretical and empirical support.

CSD 391: Learning to complete an oral motor exam

Congratulations to first-year PhD student Grace Corrigan for co-authoring two articles about linguistic and cognitive development measures for bilingual autistic children, both published this month: Baumeister et al. (2024) and Wolfer et al. (2024)!

#ComArtSci grad students Maura Philippone, Madeline Allen, Adam Elfawal and Jesse Sanderson received a bronze medal at the International Serious Play Conference for their game "CLEARLY!" 🎮 🌟🥉: spr.ly/6019UUsrF

Teachers' voices matter!🗣️Check out the latest study by one of our PhD candidates, Adrián, co-authored with our friends Dr. Hunter and Cutiva. It explores the impact of voice on teachers' professional lives and the emotional toll of vocal health challenges.📚 #TeacherWellbeing

Check this out! MSU CSD 2011 Alums gathered for the MSU vs. IU this past Saturday! #gogreen💚 #msucsd #msualumni

#ComArtSci welcomed 23 new faculty to our roster this fall 💚 spr.ly/6015s6UvF #SpartansWill

Meet Janine Mathee-Scott and Ron Pomper — new Communicative Sciences and Disorders at MSU faculty in Fall ’24 💚 spr.ly/6016s6xcw #ComArtSci #SpartansWill

The Lingo Lab at MSU is recruiting teenagers (13-17 years old) on the autism spectrum for an in-person interview about autism representation in children's books!

Join us in congratulating Ph.D. candidate Soud Ebdah on passing his comps!

Check out this latest article about the therapeutic benefits of voice tasks and therapy for swallowing dysfunction Communicative Sciences and Disorders at MSU The Voice Biomechanics and Acoustics Lab (V-BAL)

Our PhD candidate, Adrian Castillo, has published a scoping review exploring the therapeutic connections between voice and swallowing. 📄Read the full article via the link in our bio! pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

Check this out! CSD's Professor J. Scott Yaruss provides an update on viewing stuttering from a neurodiversity perspective in the latest ASHA Leader: leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/lea…

Congrats to PhD student Trent Henry, who has been selected to present at the New Investigator Research Forum at the Voice Symposium in Philadelphia! He'll present his research, “Quantifying Normophonic Vocal Function: A High-Speed Videoendoscopy and Machine Learning Approach.”

CSD Master of Arts program earns #21 nationwide ranking. The CSD MA program has advanced in the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings for the third consecutive year, climbing to #21 nationwide out of 326 Speech-Language Pathology graduate programs in the U.S.

Congratulations to CSD'd J. Scott Yaruss & Nina Reeves! Their presentation at the coming ASHA Convention, "Envisioning a Stutter-Affirming Future: The Role of SLPs in the Era of Neurodiversity," has been named a "Centennial Session" & will be broadcast live during the convention!