Department Of Speech Language And Hearing Sciences

The grant funds a study that will test an intervention designed to strengthen breathing muscles and improve post-surgical outcomes in patients who have had heart surgery.

A member of the PHHP faculty since 2015, Stephen Hardy taught courses in American Sign Language and Deaf Culture and served as an advisor for the UF chapter of the American Sign Language Honor Society and the Signing Gators.

Kidd-Gilchrist discussed the importance of the trusted relationship between a person who stutters and their speech-language pathologist.

A new study suggests that when parents baby talk to their infants, they might be helping them learn to produce speech.

The team is the first to demonstrate that a novel technology can effectively be used to assess speech development in children born deaf who received cochlear implants.

Their study examined the long-term effects of early parental language input on later language acquisition among children with hearing loss.

She received the 2021 NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship.

His research has focused on adult neurologically-based disorders of communication, and factors that contribute to the lack of equity in service provision and outcome disparities.

Jan. 28, 2021: Tucked away in a lengthy review of COVID-19 literature is an intriguing discussion of how jargon affects COVID-19 research, as experts from different fields use common terms but define them differently. In a wide-ranging review paper, a UF virologist and his interdisciplinary colleagues summarize aspects of the…

Jon and Nancy Wilkins turned their own personal tragedy into hopeful triumph for future patients and families by establishing the Dr. Jon & Nancy McEwan Wilkins Fellowship for ALS Research Fund.