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More than 795,000 people in the United States suffer strokes each year, and approximately two-thirds of these individuals survive. For most, surviving an acquired brain injury, illness or stroke is just the first step in recovery. Almost every individual will need some form of rehabilitation. Speech-language pathologists are dedicated to maximizing the quality of life for...
Tertia “Abby” Jeppson
For nine hours every Saturday and 11 hours every Sunday, Tertia “Abby” Jeppson works a cash register at the local Menards store in her hometown of LaSalle-Peru. When she sometimes hears her name on the loudspeaker, the NIU senior usually has a good idea why: One of her colleagues is trying to help a customer...
Liz Tusler (left) and Rachel Magann Faivre
Two NIU students have created a business plan that has been selected to advance to the final round of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology Student Business Plan Competition. Rachel Magann Faivre and Liz Tusler will represent the university and compete against four other student teams at the ADA convention in November. “Our task was...
NIU Speech-Language Pathology
Members of the NIU Speech-Language Pathology faculty and staff are excited to be recognized for their diligent work in the form of a high ranking in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2012 Best Colleges and Universities listing. NIU’s graduate Speech-Language Pathology program is ranked first in the State of Illinois for master’s-only programs at...
Former NIU undergraduate Joanna Ripstein, of Elmhurst, center, administers a hearing test to a student in Hong Kong during a recent visit lead by NIU audiology professor King Chung.
NIU audiology professor King Chung and four of her undergraduate and graduate students recently returned from a goodwill and learning trip to Hong Kong, where they exchanged ideas with scholars and medical experts, provided free hearing tests to underserved residents and visited local landmarks. During the two-week stay this summer, Chung and the students provided...
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NIU’s Communicative Disorders Student Association is hosting a book drive through Friday, May 13, to raise money for the Stuttering Foundation and to support organizations that work with Better World Books. Books can be dropped off in boxes located in Barsema Hall, Douglas Hall, Founders Memorial Library, the Psychology-Computer Science Building, the Wirtz Hall atrium and near the book buy-back table...
Tina Grieco-Calub
Toddlers fitted with cochlear implants take more time, on average, to process spoken words in their vocabulary than their normal-hearing peers, according to a study led by a professor from NIU. Tina Grieco-Calub, who was a post-doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the time of the 2006-2008 study, said that those time delays...