Jena Cruse professional portrait

18 Mar 2024    

Meet a Husker: Jena Cruse

Meet Jena Cruse, a senior from Papillion, Nebraska, who is majoring in elementary education and special education (K-6).

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view of Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall lit up at night

07 Mar 2024    By Kelcey Buck

Symposium discussing health disparities in Nebraska is March 18

An interdisciplinary team of University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty who received a Grand Challenges planning grant aiming to improve health disparities in underserved populations is hosting its first symposium March 18 at Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall.

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Lydia Teegerstrom places headphones on a client in a sound booth at the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic

05 Mar 2024    

From patient to provider: Husker student uses personal experience to prepare for audiology career

Lydia Teegerstrom doesn’t remember having her cochlear implants activated. She was implanted on her right side at 14 months and on her left at five years old. But she knows having them has changed her life. Now she’s using her experience to prepare to help others like her.

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Devin Shaughnessy, an elementary and special education major, helps Max Petersen build words during a tutoring session at the Schmoker Reading Center

01 Mar 2024    By Kelcey Buck

‘Hidden gem’ Schmoker Reading Center helps children overcome reading difficulties

For more than 15 years, the Kit and Dick Schmoker Reading Center has helped children in the community who are struggling with reading through one-on-one tutoring provided by Husker undergraduate and graduate students under the direction of University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty and certified teachers.

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Rhonda Heiserman of Lincoln reads out loud during her clinic session. An instrument measures the decibels of her speech. (Craig Chandler/University Communication and Marketing)

14 Feb 2024    By Kristina Jackson, University Communication and Marketing

Barkley Center project helps Parkinson’s patients be heard

The SPEAK OUT! treatment, offered at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Barkley Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic, helps people with Parkinson’s disease improve and maintain vocal volume and clear articulation. Jessie Kohn, a lecturer in special education and communication disorders and coordinator of the therapy program, said it helps people stay connected to the world around them.

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Elsa Wilcox and other Husker students assist children in Thailand with communicating using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

02 Feb 2024    By Elsa Wilcox, junior, communication sciences and disorders

Two weeks in Thailand: Reflections on sharing speech-language pathology abroad

Elsa Wilcox is a junior from McCook, Nebraska. She is majoring in communication sciences and disorders with minors in gerontology and educational studies. In this blog she shares about her experience traveling to Thailand in January as part of the two-week faculty-led Nebraska abroad program, "Experiencing Speech-Language Pathology with Therapy Abroad."

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Fall 2023 CEHS Dean's List Announced! Image of east side of Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall at night

26 Jan 2024    

993 Huskers named to Fall 2023 CEHS Dean's List

993 students in the College of Education and Human Sciences have been named to the Dean’s List for the Fall semester of the 2023-24 academic year.

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Hailey Klein, a graduate student in speech-language pathology, works with a young child during a session of the Itty Bitty Sports program

16 Jan 2024    

From the clinic to the court, Klein applies speech pathology work

As an Itty Bitty Sports coach, Hailey Klein’s campus job allows her to apply speech-language pathology techniques on the court in tandem with her clinical work through the College of Education and Human Sciences’ graduate program.

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Eight individuals dressed in business clothing stand outdoors smiling for a photo.

21 Nov 2023    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Nebraska WORDS targets post-pandemic reading success, educator growth

Nebraska researchers are working to boost reading outcomes for rural students in kindergarten through third grade by providing professional learning opportunities to teachers across the state, speeding up pandemic recovery for students with reading difficulties.

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Elsa Wilcox wears black medical scrubs and stands in front of a large building - the Hattie B. Munroe Center for Recreational Therapy.

16 Nov 2023    By UNL Career Services

Wilcox completes rare internship within UNMC’s Munroe Meyer Institute

Elsa Wilcox’s internship at University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe Meyer Institute strengthened her passion for speech pathology. She worked with a diverse team, enhancing her skills, and her experience, normally reserved for graduate students, set her apart.

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