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
Erika Baldwin (MS Communication Sciences and Disorders) received first place in the 2019 Student Ethics Essay Award Competition for the paper “The Ethics of Social Media Advocacy” from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). The competition, part of ASHA’s efforts to… Read More
Three CHS students are receiving 2019-2020 UWM Senior Excellence in Research Awards (SERA) from the UWM Office of Undergraduate Research. The awardees are Ryan Majinski (BS Biomedical Sciences), Diana Sofia Rivera (BS Occupational Studies, Psychology Minor) and Rebecca Willer (BS… Read More
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) along with the ASHA Board of Ethics, recently selected graduate student Erika Baldwin, from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, as the first-place winner of the 2019 Student Ethics Essay Award (SEEA) contest. Her… Read More
As an undergraduate student, Jing Yang, PhD, was not aware of the field of communication sciences and disorders, but now she has become an assistant professor. Her journey from her undergraduate years as a Chinese Language and Literature major to… Read More
The 11th Annual UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 5 celebrated the research of over 300 students from across the UWM campus. Among them were 33 students from the College of Health Sciences who presented their research. Honored to deliver… Read More
Senior communication sciences and disorders student Rebecca Willer was interviewed on WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee’s NPR’s UWM Today program. Discussed was UWM’s recent award for the accomplishments of undergraduates engaged in research. Willer talked about her research on the impact of… Read More
This year, the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders has much to celebrate as it reaches a prestigious milestone of 50 years of accreditation for the graduate program in speech-language pathology. This legacy allows the department to continue its mission… Read More
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
Two of the college’s students were honored with Senior Excellence in Research Awards. They are Diana Sophia Rivera, an occupational studies major with psychology and pre-law minors, and Rebecca Willer, a communication sciences and disorders major. They will each receive with $5,000 in support… Read More