The Total Communications Club is teaming up with Ole Miss head football coach Houston Nutt and his family to raise awareness about the deaf community.
The club is hosting a free spring social for the deaf community at 5 p.m. Tuesday (March 29) at the football practice field on Hill Drive. Attendees can watch football practice, have a chance to meet the players and tour the facilities. Entry to the practice is at the west side gate on Hill Drive.
ASHA Convention: Leadership into New FrontiersNovember 18–20, 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The faculty and second year graduate students of Communication Sciences and Disorders are attending the annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Association meeting. Convention Schedule. More information about the convention.
The Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) will be on the campus of The University of Mississippi to complete a program site-visit for the re-accreditation application of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. As part of their visit, the site visit team would like to meet with individuals of the public who wish to contribute information about the program. This is an invitation to clients of the clinic, their family members, community members, Alumni, and employers of alumni to attend this Public Meeting. The meeting will be held in George Hall, room 204 on Monday, October 25, 2010, at 3:15. Please make every effort to attend.
A copy of the Standards for Accreditation and/or the CAA’s Policy on Public Comment may be obtained by contacting the Accreditation Office at ASHA, 2200 Research Blvd., Rockville, Maryland 20850, calling ASHA’s Action Center at 1-800-498-2071, or accessing the documents on ASHA’s website at: http://asha.org/about/credentialing/accreditation/
Speaker J. Scott Yaruss, PhD., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow presents on "Practical Treatment Strategies for School-Age Children Who Stutter". Download information sheet and registration form now.
The School of Applied Sciences adopted an honor code for students, faculty and staff of the school in Spring 2010. Click here to read the code.
(OXFORD, Miss.) – Johnny and Renee McRight remember their undergraduate and graduate school years at the University of Mississippi as some of the best of their lives. They also recognize the fellowships, grants and other opportunities they were afforded made their graduate degrees and professional careers possible. Read more at the University of Mississippi Foundation.
OXFORD, Miss. - Students who earn practical experience in their desired fields generally graduate better prepared and more marketable than peers who have only classroom experience. That's the hope of some University of Mississippi communicative disorders graduate students who are externing in north Mississippi school districts this semester. Read the whole release...
Dr. Greg Snyder of our Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is featured in a Newswise article about his research on the topic of stuttering. Click here for article.
The University of Mississippi Chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association sponsored the 8th Annual Fall Institute, a two-day continuing education event. More than 200 speech-language pathologists and audiologists packed the Inn @ Ole Miss to hear Barbara W. Hodson, PhD, CCC-SLP, researcher, educator, and Board Recognized Specialist in Child Language. Fees received from institute registration, were used to fund the students’ travel expenses to the annual ASHA convention held Nov. 18-21 in New Orleans, LA.