Communication Sciences and Disorders Ph.D. Students Present Research at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Annual Convention.

Three PhD students and their faculty mentors in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders presented research posters at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) held in Boston from November 15 to 17, 2018. Christa M. Akers, with her faculty mentor, Mary Boyle, and co-author, Roberta J. Elman, presented the poster, “Evaluating the test-retest reliability of complete utterances in discourse”. Carolina Beita-Ell and her faculty mentor, Michael P. Boyle, presented the poster, “Self-esteem, self-efficacy, and social support in adults who do and do not stutter”. Michelle Swartz and her faculty mentors, Elaine Hitchcock and Mary Boyle, presented the poster, “Improving prosodic variation in a patient with primary progressive apraxia of speech using visual-acoustic biofeedback”.