Speech Language and Hearing Sciences

Sep. 1, 2021

2021 faculty promotions

Sept. 2, 2021 Congratulations to faculty who received promotions this month! Health Sciences Claire Altman – Associate Professor Hye Jeong Choi – Associate Professor Botswana Blackburn – Teaching Professor Social Work Hsun-Ta Hsu – Associate Professor Virginia Ramseyer Winter – Associate Professor Aaron Thompson – Professor Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Elizabeth Kelley – Associate Professor Mili Kuruvilla – Associate Professor Occupational Therapy William Janes – Associate Research Professor Timothy Wolf – Professor Physical Therapy Anita Campbell – Associate Teaching Professor Dana Martin – Teaching Professor…

July 15, 2021

Student Spotlight: Bridget Rennard, John and Janet Farmer Scholarship Recipient

July 16, 2021 Interview by Kelsey Pritchett Bridget Rennard MHS Student in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Recipient of the John and Janet Farmer Endowment Scholarship Hometown: Chesterfield, Missouri Why did you choose Mizzou? I chose Mizzou because of the different clinical and research opportunities available through the Speech, Hearing and Language Sciences department. I also chose Mizzou because the financial aid offered through my graduate research assistantship made graduate school more feasible. What made you interested in speech-language pathology over other degrees? I knew that I was interested in the health professions, and I was originally interested…

July 6, 2021

Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences alumna crowned Miss Pennsylvania

July 7, 2021 While many students change their career aspirations several times throughout high school and college, Meghan Sinisi, who graduated in May 2021 with an MHS in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, always knew she wanted to work to benefit the autism community. Now that she’s been crowned Miss Pennsylvania, she’ll advocate for people with autism in a more informed way after completing the Speech-Pathology program in the Mizzou School of Health Professions. Sinisi first heard about Mizzou from her undergraduate college mentor, who relocated to Columbia and knew that Mizzou had the Thompson Center for Autism…

July 5, 2021

Collaboration to improve swallowing treatment for cancer patients

July 6, 2021 By Kelsey Pritchett Stephanie Knollhoff, assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, recently received a University of Missouri Research Council Grant to investigate a swallowing rehabilitation technique in individuals with cancer. This project explores an alternative approach to swallowing treatment for individuals undergoing radiation treatment for head and neck cancer. Dr. Knollhoff and her co-investigators, Laura Dooley and Gregory Biedermann at the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, are striving to carefully construct protocols that balance the individual burden and pain during oncologic treatment with improved participation in therapy to obtain best swallowing outcomes. The…

June 16, 2021

Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences professor receives U.S. patent

June 17, 2021 By Kelsey Pritchett The Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences is excited to share that Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, assistant professor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, was part of a team of inventors who recently received a patent from the U.S. Patent Office. The team consisted of two speech-language pathologists, Kuruvilla-Dugdale and Teresa Lever of the School of Medicine, and two engineers, Filiz Bunyak and Yunxin Zhao of the College of Engineering. The speech-language pathologists identified the health care need and business potential; the engineers developed the software system. “Clinician-scientist collaborations are critical to developing feasible solutions…

June 6, 2021

Kuruvilla-Dugdale named to Communication Disorders Review Committee

June 7, 2021 By Kelsey Pritchett Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, has been nominated to and will serve on the Communication Disorders Review Committee for the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). This 21-member committee advises on programs and activities, grant applications, awards and special projects focused on deafness and other communication disorders. Dr. Kuruvilla-Dugdale has served for the past three years as the ad hoc reviewer for NIDCD on two different review committees. Her work involves reviewing training, early-career research grants and loan repayment grants. “It’s an honor…