STUDENT RESEARCH

Resources

Graduate student Julie Gaskins began conducting research as an undergraduate at UCF. Click here to learn more.

Recent Awards

2007 Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists Award
Emilio Lobato (B.A. '07) (left), Associate Professor Kenyatta Rivers (right) and Courtesy Clinical Professor Larry Schutz won the First Place Research Presentation Award on May 26 at the Annual Convention of the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (FLASHA). Their presentation was titled "Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury in Post-Secondary Schools."

Lobato (left) and Rivers

 


Schutz  

2007 UCF Showcase of Undergrduate Research Excellence Awards
Nearly 170 students shared their research and creativity through poster presentations at UCF's 2007 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence. Awards were given for the best poster in each category, based on a team of faculty judges.

Winners from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders are identified below.

(1) Undergraduate Claudia Nunez and Associate Professor Kenyatta Rivers won first place in the Social Sciences II category for their work on the "Communication Disorders
Professionals' Perceptions about Death and Dying."

(2) Undergraduate Heather Heffernan and Assistant Professor Jamie Schwartz won second place in the Social Sciences I category for their work on "Parents' Use of Language Facilitation Strategies during Interactions with Their Child with Autism."

(3) Undergraduate Emilio Lobato, Dr. Larry Schutz and Associate Professor Kenyatta Rivers won an "honorable mention" in the Social Sciences I category for their work on the “Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury in Post-Secondary Schools."

Nunez and Rivers

 

Rivers and Lobato