Professor Roger O. Smith, PhD, OT, FAOTA, RESNA Fellow, PhD Health Sciences student Mason Drake and MS Occupational Therapy student Anna McCartney were featured in a WTMJ interview about a new app that rates the accessibility of Milwaukee businesses. Smith, Drake, McCartney and a team of students are developing the app for people with physical, sensory and cognitive disabilities to use to understand different buildings’ levels of accessibility. They’re planning to get it up and running in time for the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee this summer.
Alumna directs camp for children with social disorders
Speech-Language Pathologist Elizabeth Robbin (‘06 MS Communication Sciences and Disorders) spends her summers working as the Director of Camp Firefly. Camp Firefly is a unique overnight camp for children, ages 9-18, who have social disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder,… Read More
CHS’s first student artist in residence
Many college students live in dorms, or in apartments with other college students, but that is not always the case. Undergraduate student Danielle Hobach, BS Occupational Studies, Therapeutic Recreation Track, Minor in Psychology, Certificate in Healthy Aging, moved into the… Read More
UWM Partners for Health focuses on teachers with school supply drive
UWM Partners for Health focuses on teachers with school supply drive
Collaborating to benefit community and students
Two clinical faculty members from the Department of Occupational Science and Technology volunteer regularly at a neighborhood outreach organization called City on a Hill. Tamicah Gelting, MS, OTR, clinical assistant professor and Patricia K. Thomas, MPA, CTRS, clinical associate professor,… Read More
Exciting new partnership with UWM Children’s Learning Center
Colleagues from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) spearheaded a new partnership with the UWM Children’s Learning Center located in the Northwest Quad. Clinical Associate Professor Joyce King-McIver, PhD, CCC-SLP, and Clinical Assistant Professor Bethanne Mazurczak, MS, CCC-SLP, C-NDT, worked together with the center’s… Read More
Help fulfill your New Year’s resolutions. Register for a Sport & Recreation class.
Sport & Recreation classes offer a chance to try a new sport, learn skills or experience the outdoors. Ron Wiza, who is the Director of College of Health Sciences Outreach, leads the UWM Sport & Recreation Program. The programming is… Read More
Innovative urban agriculture program teaches local high school students
Several UWM schools and departments are supporting the summer wages for students in the new Learn-Earn-Grow Milwaukee (LEG MKE) program. Under the tenet of “Education=Power and Food=Health,” program co-founder and former CHS staffer Bonnie Halvorsen, together with UWM Chief Sustainability… Read More
Health care training program aims to increase diversity in workforce
By UWM News, September 21, 2017 The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is home to a program like very few in the United States. UWM is one of just six undergraduate institutions in the country to receive a Maternal & Child Health… Read More
UWM clinic helps patients with autism overcome physical challenges
Despite the increased attention autism has received, gaps in therapy remain. UW-Milwaukee researchers are helping to fill some of those gaps for children. Read the full story