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Researchers from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders took the top four awards for poster presentations at the 2006 Annual Convention of the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (FLASHA), held May 25-28, 2006, in Orlando.
In addition, Assistant Professor Jennifer Kent-Walsh received a 2005-2006 FLASHA Foundation, Inc., Research Award of $2,500 to support her work on "The effects of peer
instruction on the expressive language of children using augmentative
and alternative communication during shared reading activities."
Listed below are the names of the award-winning poster presentations and researchers:
First Place: "Butch Learns To Read" by Joan Kissel, Kenyatta O. Rivers and David L. Ratusnik
Second Place: "FCAT In The Doghouse? Process Artifacts for Multicultural Populations" by Larry E. Schutz, Kenyatta O. Rivers and Judith A. Schutz
Third Place: "School-Based AAC Service Delivery: Pilot Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists" by Jennifer Kent-Walsh, Chaya Stark and Cathy Binger
Fourth Place: "Bidialectal Training Program for African American Adolescent Dialect Speakers" by Kenyatta O. Rivers, Lisa S. MacKenzie and David L. Ratusnik
First-place winners: Associate Professor Kenyatta Rivers (left) and Joan Kissel (center)
with FLAHSA
representative Joseph Langhans. Not pictured is research colleague Professor David Ratusnik
Second-place winners: (left to right) Judith Schutz, Larry Schutz and
Rivers
Third-place winners: Assistant Professor Jennifer Kent-Walsh (left) and student Chaya Stark (center) with Langhans. Not pictured is research colleague Cathy Binger
Photos by Charlotte Harvey
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