The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is growing. Two tenure-track faculty positions, one in Speech-Language Pathology and one in Hearing Science, are now open as part of our ongoing investment in research, education, and innovation.

Elizabeth Walker, associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, will use funding from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how children with hearing loss could improve their processing of spoken language and their speech through long-term use of hearing aids.

Ethan Kutlu, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and CSSI researcher affiliate, recently published a study tracking how school-aged children categorize speech sounds. It changes the way that researchers and parents can track progress and enrich language development.

Naomi Rodgers and Julia Kerrigan presented work related to stuttering at the conference in Oxford, UK.

The Dare to Discover campaign showcases student and postdoc researchers, scholars, and creators from across the University of Iowa on banners throughout downtown Iowa City.

Naomi Rodgers, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has won funding from the National Institutes of Health to introduce a new approach to promote confidence in speaking for elementary-school students who stutter.

Chris Walker (Ph.D. ’81), longtime professor at the University of Redlands, established a doctoral scholarship in CSD because of the stellar financial support he received during his doctoral studies.

Philip Combiths, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, will develop the proposal “Beyond the Norm: A Contextualized Approach to Multilingual Preschool Assessment” to be submitted to the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders.

A three-part video series spotlights different elements of CSD’s new clinical and academic spaces.

AuD/PhD student Jean Hong is reshaping pediatric audiology research