COMMUNICATION Disorders SUMMER 2016
Student Research Published
Elizabeth S. Hasseltine (B.S. Ed. ’15, M.Ed. ‘17) and the following colleagues
from our Speech Pathology & Audiology program published a paper based on their 2013 study abroad research, titled “Predicting Stuttering Severity Ratings by Timing and Tallying Dysfluencies Using Praat Software,” in Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, Vol . 43, pp. 106–114, Spring 2016: Shannon F. Black (B.S.Ed. ’14) Tayler M. Corcoran (B.S.Ed. ’14) Danika L. DiPalma (B.S.Ed. ’14) Susan E. Dixon (B.S.Ed. ’14) Anne T. Gooch (B.S.Ed. ’14) Lauren M. Hurlburt (B.S.Ed. ’13, current M.Ed. student) Ashton B. Murray (B.S.Ed. ’14) Kathryn B. Potts (B.S.Ed. ’15) Anna C. Schnizler (B.S.Ed. ’14) Caitlin Secrist (B.S.Ed. ’15) Roma Marisa Shickel (B.S.Ed. ’14, current M.Ed. student) Filip Loncke, Professor, University of Virginia and Paul Corthals, Professor, University College Ghent, Belgium
Communication Disorders is edited by Lynn Bell, Director of Alumni Relations, and published by the Curry School of Education, P.O. Box 400268, Charlottesville, VA 22904. Email: lynnbell@virginia.edu #UVACurry
A Very Special Year
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ur program is embarking on a very special year! This year the program turns 75. In 1941, our program was founded by two prescient UVA faculty members who saw the need for the professions that became Speech Language Pathology and Audiology. Dr. Karl Wallace, Professor of Speech, and Dr. Fletcher D. Woodward, Professor of Otolaryngology, convinced the Board of Visitors to establish an academic program in speech pathology and audiology and a center for clinical instruction and public service. Across our 75-year history, it’s possible to tally the number of graduate degrees conferred. Beyond calculation, however, is the number of infants, children, adults, veterans, and elderly patients whose lives have been positively impacted by all of those alumni. On behalf of our current faculty members and students, it is an honor to express our respect, and our congratulations to all of those who came before us to establish and nurture the grand legacy of our program. At our recent graduation celebration, we joined in a toast that bears repeating here: We offer our respect and our gratitude to all of those who came before us to create, build, and husband our program. Furthermore, we extend our fervent hopes and high expectations to future colleagues who will pick up the mantle of carrying our program forward through the decades to come. What better way to celebrate history than to make a little history. Our incoming masters class consists of an unprecedented 49 students! This past year, we modernized our recruiting and admission processes to resonate with our millennial, or GenY, applicants. Our new process proved exceptionally powerful, and the percentage of applicants accepting our invitation to study in Charlottesville shot through the roof! We’ve been planning all summer to adapt our practices and welcome this exceptionally qualified cohort. In that spirit, if you are in a position to welcome a UVA extern sometime next year, we would love to begin making arrangements with you now. As a part of our anniversary, we are establishing two Foundation accounts for gifts of any size. Both accounts establish a scholarship to fund Audiology and SLP services and products for clients in financial need. One account is dedicated to supporting infants, toddlers, and children (e.g., feeding and swallowing, autism, voice, stuttering, language impairment, cochlear implant, and summer camps). The second is dedicated to supporting elderly clients on a fixed income (e.g., those with aphasia, dysarthria, hearing loss, or cognitive impairment). Please consider supporting the clients we serve. continued on page 2
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continued from page 1 And now dear friends, a stunning surprise. This year we learned that the official name of our program is not Communication Disorders! Dating back to who knows when, the official title of our program has been Speech Communication Disorders. Who knew! I’m happy to pass along that our Curry and
CLASS NOTES Carolyn (Kepple) Dewalt (B.S. ’77) ... retired in
2013 as a school administrator. “Since retirement I have had the pleasure to teach as an adjunct at Winthrop University...” Fern Andraos (B.S.Ed. ’06, M.Ed. ’08) is working part-time at two pediatric private practices in the DC area. “My husband and I have two kids, ages 3 1/2 and 18 months, with another child on the way...”
Carrie (Lopez) Balazs (B.S.Ed. ’04, M.Ed. ’06) recently accepted a new position as an acute care speech language pathologist at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. She and her husband Brian are expecting their firstborn (a daughter) in November. Cathy Carrell Teague (B.S.Ed. ’80) lives in Bloomington, Ill., with her husband Joe. Cathy has worked for State Farm Insurance for 28 years in the Life/Health division, focusing mainly on life underwriting... Meghan (Judge) Chab (M.Ed. ’16) is completing her clinical fellowship in speech language pathology in Bowie, Md., at Children’s Evaluation and Therapy Center... Sheila Chrobak (B.S.Ed. ’94) “It’s hard to believe that I began my practice, Dot to Dot: Pediatric Speech Language Therapy LLC, a bit over 8 years ago!...” Brittany Davis (B.S.Ed. ’10, M.Ed. ’12) recently completed a new training: SPEAK OUT! “...With colleague and former UVA alumna, Keri Cullen (M.Ed. ’14), we have developed a Head and Neck Cancer Program. ... I am getting married in October and will be Brittany R. Reed!” Lisa Derrenbacker (M.Ed. ’81) has worked for 30 years in Information Technology... Carolyn (Kepple) Dewalt (B.S. ’77) coauthored A Tour of Mr. Jefferson’s University with Edgar the Squirrel with husband Mark Dewalt, Elisabeth Wise and Deb Mink (Carlisle Printing, 2013)... Ryan Eagles (M.Ed. ’07) and her husband will celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary this year. “We have a son who is turning 6. I am loving working with the under 3 population and their families.”
Kimberly Edwards (B.S.Ed ’09, M.Ed. ’11) ... is working as the Transitions Program coordina2
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University colleagues have been acquiring one approval after another to place a request with SCHEV to formally change our name to the Communication Sciences and Disorders Program. We are now in the final stages of that process. Stay tuned.
Last but not least, we are very pleased to welcome aboard Anne Shackelford, who joins us as a Clinical Instructor. Thank you to everyone who sent us an update for this edition. We do love hearing about what’s important in your lives.
Submit your class note at curry.virginia.edu/classnotes/submit tor and speech-language pathologist for KIPP DC Public Charter Schools in the newly founded Learning Center... She is pursuing her ABA certification from George Mason University to become a board certified behavior analyst. Kristen Healy (M.Ed. ’05) is travel therapy-ing for three-month assignments all over the country! “... I just began working on my doctorate in Speech Pathology through Nova Southeastern! ...” Marie Ireland (M.Ed. ’97) was named a Board Certified Specialist in Child Language and Language Disorders by the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders (and approved by the Council on Clinical Certification of the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Association) in January 2016. Allison Leach (M.Ed. ’95) ...“After grad school, I worked in the city schools, and when I had my daughters (Morgan-17, Haley-15) I stayed at home. Once they were off to daycare, I began working at Curry as a research scientist...” Emily Lynn (M.Ed. ’14) is working part time a bilingual speech-language pathologist for Charleston County School District in Charleston, S.C. She also works part-time as an SLP in the Medical University of South Carolina hospital.
second year of her Teach for America commitment, where she teaches fifth-grade math and science. “I am also working on my master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University!”
Caley (O’Connor) Nunnally (M.Ed. ’13)
children, as well as children ages 8-12.
works as a full-time SLP at The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh. She married Brandon Nunnally on September 19, 2015, at the UVA Chapel. Tracy Parfitt (B.S.Ed. ’00) and her husband Joseph welcomed a son, Jameson Leonard, in July 2015. Jameson joins big brother Gavin Joseph (6) and big sister Ryleigh Suzanne (4). Preston Pugh (M.Ed. ’10) was married last May, and is working as an outpatient SLP for VCU Health (formerly MCV) Voice and Swallowing Clinic in Richmond, Va. Paxton Rosser (B.S.Ed. ’16) will be attending graduate school at James Madison University in the fall. Christy Vaught (B.S.Ed ’14) will begin her first full-time position at Washington County Schools in Virginia for the 2016-2017 school year.... Stacy Wagovich, CCC-SLP (Ph.D. ’92) is the incoming co-editor of Seminars in Speech and Language. Seminars covers topics relevant to speechlanguage pathologists and graduate students. Hope N. Walton (B.S. ’75; M.Ed. ’76) coauthored an article titled, “Outstanding Student Retention and Graduation: The Peer Advisors and Mentors Program at the University of Richmond.” The article appeared in the 2015 Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Journal, Vol. 28. Emily Wolber Scheuring (M.Ed. ’10) has been serving as clinical SLP at the Duke Voice Care Center in Durham, N.C., since 2010. ...In 2015, she joined the clinical faculty at UNC-Greensboro Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders, where she trains SLP graduate students in assessment and treatment of voice disorders...
viewed on local NBC 29 News about her participation in the July 4, 2016, Naturalization Ceremony at Monticello. Jennifer Morgan (B.S.Ed. ’15) is starting the
Read more. Many class notes were abbreviated due to space limitations. You can read the full versions, including photos and fond memories, at curry.virginia.edu/commdisnewsletter
Katherine (Kresovich) Mackintosh (B.S. ’75, M.Ed. ’76) has extended her Integrative Health
Coaching career into teaching as an instructor for Duke Integrative Medicine’s Integrative Health Coach Certification Training Course. ... She was inducted into the National MS Society’s National Volunteer Hall of Fame for Programs and Services in 2014. Melissa Maddox (M.Ed. ’16) received honorable mention for her poster presentation at the Voice Foundation’s Annual Symposium in Philadelphia this summer ...
Ashley (Truett) Maturo (B.S.Ed. ’11, M.Ed. ’13) works in a private school with high school age Kimberly Monge-Ferra (M.Ed. ’14) was inter-
In Pursuit of Solutions
Professor Nick Barone seeks more objective assessment protocols B Y LY N N B E L L
Dr. Barone’s Voice Lab team from left to right Melissa Maddox, Kate Baker, Nick Barone, Lauren Mathieu, Justin Benson, Brittany Brown, and Maureen Wade.
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s standards of evidence for medically necessary treatments are tightening and being applied more broadly, voice therapy for disorders such as muscle tension dysphonia are no longer being covered by many insurers. Professor Nick Barone is pursuing more objective voice therapy techniques and assessment protocols that he hopes will one day meet rigorous standards for evidence. Now in his second year at the Curry School, Barone is developing a partnership with Jim Daniero, MD, in UVA’s Otolaryngology Dept. to help create VIVAS: the Virginia Institute of Voice Airway and Swallowing, where they will conduct clinically based research on this and other related topics. Barone is following a hypothesis that cortical responses measured using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) will allow SLPs to see what happens as a person learns to use and habituates a new therapeutic voice quality. This is a novel use for NIRS, which itself is a relatively new technology. Lasers placed on a patient’s scalp measure cortical changes on the surface of the brain and over time can track the learning and habitual use of a therapeutic voice qualities. Effective treatment should show a shift in activity from the auditory feedback to the motor planning areas of the brain. NIRS provides similar data as provided by fMRI but at about a quarter of the cost, and
the assessment can be done in an office or lab rather than in a hospital facility. “In the next 10 years, clinicians may be able to use this measurement to show effectiveness of therapy and track the learning process,” Barone said. His dissertation study at James Madison University used NIRS to examine freshman student vocal performance majors before and after their first semester of university voice training. In the coming years, he and his student lab assistants will examine future master’s student voice clinicians who will be learning the Intrinsic-Extrinsic Voice Treatment protocol as well as the different voice qualities used in the treatment. He will be assessing their brain activity before, during and after the semester course to track learning and retention. He hopes also to conduct studies comparing different equipment, such as NIRS versus fMRI, for measuring brain activity during voice production to determine the validity of the NIRS data. He hopes eventually to do a multi-institutional randomized controlled clinical trial on the Intrinsic-Extrinsic Voice Treatment protocol using NIRS as an objective measurement of learning. Barone will present two papers on his research at the fNIRS conference in Paris this October and will devote time this fall to writing grant proposals for funding his work.
Thank You! The Curry School Foundation recognizes the generosity of the following alumni from the Communication Disorders programs who made donations in fiscal year 2016 (which ended June 30): Bettye Anderson
Louis La Borwit
Marcia Anderson
Heidi Lang
Teresa Anthony
Jeanne Lansing
Margaret Bachman
Dawna Lewis
Jana Bennett
Rebecca Lower
Jordan Bills
Janne Mack
Cristin Brophy
Katherine Mackintosh
Margaret Bruckhart
Vivian McBride
Emily Carmody
Janet McCarty
Kathy Carter
Margaret McElroy
Paula Cochran
Courtland Meyer
Luanne Conrad
Laura Michie
Elena Cooper
Donna Muschlitz
Geraldine Cox
Jennifer Olson
Helen Cox-Andrews
Sharon Parente
Anne Croft
Mary Pearson
Elizabeth Daly
Lauren Piccillo
Marian Danse
De Ann Posey
Beth Diamonstein
Barbara Renner
Valerie Dodson
Charla Reynolds
Carol Dudding
Elizabeth Sanders
Janet Fischer
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Lindsay Victor
Gwendolyn Kassoff
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Laura Kohlroser
Priscilla Wilcox
Lisa Kopf
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Audiology Services Return Professor Kristin Roush builds the client base after a brief gap in staffing
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ristin Roush, assistant professor on the clinical faculty, wants the local community to know that the Curry School’s Sheila C. Johnson Center is once again offering a full range of hearing services. She has been working over the past year to rebuild a client base that fell off during a year and a half gap between audiologists.
Obtaining hearing services through the Center has many advantages. Roush highlights the short wait time and flexible scheduling. Parking is available nearby and the Center environment is extremely patient friendly and allows for ample time to address the needs of each individual. The multidisciplinary approach within the center allows access to a full range of care and provides for expansive case management. Roush is enthusiastic about the creation of the hearing aid assistance program. Thanks in part to the Center’s public service mission, low-income clients can apply for reduced fees for management and followup services on a sliding scale. A partnership with local Lions Clubs also helps clients obtain hearing aids at a reduced price.
Student Award Aija Crawford was the recipient of the 2016 Stacy Wagovich Study Abroad Award, which helps offset an undergraduate student’s expenses for participation in the Summer Abroad program for International Communication Disorders Research each year. Nineteen students participated in the program with advisor Filip Loncke. Earlier this summer they visited and conducted research in Ghent, Belgium, and Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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This program would not be as successful if was not for UVA Health System’s Audiology and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery departments. These departments refer the clients who are eligible for aid to the Center. Roush joined the Curry faculty last year, coming from Gallaudet University’s Department of Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences in Washington, D.C., where she was a clinical educator. In addition to providing audiology services to the community, she teaches Intro to Audiology in the undergraduate program, and prepares masters speech language pathology students for the provision of care to patients with hearing concerns and provides training on administering hearing screenings.