The Barkley Memorial Center, home to the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus, is celebrating its 50th anniversary by hosting a speaker series and open house on Friday, Oct. 23.
The celebration will begin at 9 a.m. with a speaker series at the Nebraska East Union’s Great Plains Room. Following the speaker series, an open house will be held at the Barkley Memorial Center from 4-6:30 p.m., with brief remarks at 5 in the lobby of the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic. Both events are free and open to the public. Registration for the speaker series is required and will include a lunch voucher to use at the Nebraska East Union dining center.
The speaker series will feature three alumni from Special Education and Communication Disorders, along with a national speaker, working across special education, communication disorders, disability advocacy and related fields. The open house will provide visitors the opportunity to explore the Barkley Memorial Center’s research labs and clinical spaces through guided and self-guided tours.
The complete schedule can be found on the Barkley Memorial Center 50th Anniversary Celebration webpage. The four keynote speakers for the event include:
- Kelly Farquharson (’12 Ph.D.), professor and director of the Children’s Literacy and Speech Sound (CLaSS) Lab at the College of Communication & Information, Florida State University
- Alaina Bassett (’12 B.S., ’15 M.S., ’16 Au.D., ’18 Ph.D.), assistant professor of audiology in the Department of Communication Disorders, California State University, Los Angeles
- Mickey Rowe, autistic and legally blind author, actor and speaker, and founding artistic director of National Disability Theatre
- Matt McNiff (’04 M.Ed., ’15 Ph.D.), behavior consultant at Nebraska Educational Service Unit No. 5
Construction of the Barkley Memorial Center was approved in 1974, and the building was dedicated on Sept. 24, 1976. Named in honor of William E. and Edna M. (McDowell) Barkley, it houses the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders. In addition to academic programs in audiology, speech-language pathology and special education, the Barkley Center is also home to the Barkley Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic, the Kit and Dick Schmoker Reading Center, and numerous research labs. Learn more at cehs.unl.edu/secd.
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