Join us for our weekly professional seminar, commemorating the lasting impact of the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center. Topics range all dimensions of communicative studies and disorders (Audiology, Hearing Science, Speech Science, Speech Pathology, Language Acquisition, etc.). Noon to 1 p.m., Fridays at the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center, 250 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA Presentations are in-person with some also simultaneously streamed on Zoom. (https://uiowa.zoom.us/j...

Title: “100 Years of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: A Panel Discussion with ASHA Leadership” Speakers: Dr. Tena McNamara, past President of ASHA, Dr. Sumit Dhar, past Vice President for Science and Research of ASHA, and Dr. Bernadette Mayfield-Clarke, current President of ASHA This panel discussion with members of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Board of Directors will explore the evolution of the field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD)...

Ritwik Banerji is an experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, and improviser. He is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Iowa State University. His scholarship appears in Jazz and Culture, Anthropology in Action, Jazz Perspectives, The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, and Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, among other venues.

Title: "Twin Pursuits: Diversity of Typical Language and the Atypical Language of Autism Spectrum Disorders" Speaker: Ida Stockman, PhD, CCC-SLP, professor emerita at Michigan State University, 2024-25 CSD Distinguished Alumni Awardee A retrospective view is taken of graduate education in speech-language pathology at the University of Iowa, which seeded my professional focus in the field. I will summarize my efforts to (1) change the deficit-based research paradigm for identifying typical...

In a world full of noise, we often try listening to something: conversations with colleagues and family, music in our headphones, videos blasting from our smartphones. We hear all these things daily, but what does it mean to truly listen? In what sense do devices also listen to us? What is the role of silence in listening? How has listening changed over time? Can political tensions be solved through “listening”? How is listening both an art and a science? This Wide Lens event brings together...

Save the Date! Join us for a day of events to commemorate the lasting impact of the Wendell Johnson Speech & Hearing Center! More info to come.