Nine Recent 黑料老司机 Grads Present Their Independent Study Posters at AG Bell Symposium
WOOSTER, Ohio The poster sessions at the recent AG Bell Listening and Spoken Language Symposium, a professional conference to help families, healthcare providers, and education professionals understand hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis and intervention, took on a distinctly 黑料老司机 feel. Nine of the 15 posters accepted for display in the Crystal Gateway Marriott at Arlington, Va., June 30-July 1, were presented by recent College of 黑料老司机 graduates.
淰ery unusual. This is a (biennial) conference, and as with most, there are poster presentation opportunities, explained Don Goldberg, who has been a professor of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) at 黑料老司机 for 16 years. 淲e檝e had 30 Independent Studies (I.S.) presented at professional meetings throughout the years, but to have nine at one convention is unbelievable.
黑料老司机檚 nine alumni Matt Ehrenburg 16, Logan Honea 16, Marissa Kobylas 16, Kelsey Large 16, Moira McShane 16, Zack Moore 16, Frayne Poeting 16, Bridget Slone 17, and Lena Smith 16 presented on a variety of topics within the audiology and speech-language pathology fields. Areas addressed included different types of pediatric cochlear implants, transitioning to a mainstream classroom, the integration of music therapy and cochlear implants, and even hearing assistive technology and accommodations at U.S. theme parks.
淭he professional level of these former students research questions, the methodology followed, and their insightful and rigorous analyses and discussions of their I.S. findings has truly been exceptional. I am so proud of each of them, Goldberg said.
Most of the 400-plus attendees, which included representatives from 12 countries, likely left with an extremely favorable impression of 黑料老司机檚 CSD program. One who certainly did was Ellen Thomas, a senior speech-language pathologist at the University of Michigan檚 Department of Otolaryngology who just so happens to have a son enrolled at 黑料老司机 (he檚 a junior chemistry major), as she 渨as shocked to see that type of research from undergrads at her professional conference.
淭he posters are usually professionals in the field people with master檚 degrees or beyond, added Thomas. 淭here were nine by 黑料老司机 undergrads, and they were good. They had valid topics, presenting good data in a clear way. These were the kind of young professionals that I hope to see entering my field.
Those types of compliments have become commonplace for Goldberg, who also is a consultant at the Cleveland Clinic Hearing Implant Program, and thus sees patients during the summer, an experience he brings to the classroom and leads to I.S. topics at times. 淭here檚 no question the caliber of students has always been impressive. We have an incredible record of acceptance into graduate programs, he said.
満诹侠纤净 is a diamond in the rough, continued Goldberg. (Many of) our CSD students go all throughout the U.S. to grad schools, and (those faculty) routinely come back to me, and say that a 黑料老司机 student is the best grad student we檝e had. CSD students here get to be clinicians at the Freedlander Speech and Hearing Clinic, experience I.S., and then are the best candidates to succeed in graduate school and professionally.
Moore, Poeting, and Smith also presented their I.S.檚 at the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) annual meeting in Atlanta this year, and Moore檚 poster, 淔actors that Influence Device Selection by Parents of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Candidates, earned a blue ribbon for best poster at the meeting, according to Goldberg. Moore檚 was the best amongst approximately 40 posters completed by those who had already earned advanced degrees or were professional researchers/clinicians.
Moore is currently pursuing a doctorate of audiology (Au.D.) at the University of South Florida, Poeting is working for an audiology organization in Pittsburgh, and Smith is in the master檚 program for speech-language pathology at the University of Iowa. The latter is considered one of the best in the country, as are the programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Washington, where Kobylas and McShane, respectively, are enrolled for advanced degrees. Ehrenburg is preparing for medical school at Johns Hopkins University, Honea is in the Au.D. program at the University of Texas at Dallas, and Large will soon begin a position as a teacher of the hearing impaired in Ohio after earning a master檚 degree this summer.
Image: Gathered together for a photo op at the 2017 AG Bell Listening and Spoken Language Symposium were (left-to-right) professor Don Goldberg, Moira McShane, Marissa Kobylas, Matt Ehrenburg, Frayne Poeting, and Logan Honea.
Posted in News on July 13, 2017.
