Students participate in Speech-Language-Hearing meeting
BU's Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology was well represented at the annual convention of the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association, held recently in Pittsburgh.
From left: Amanda Bogert, Reanna Huthmacher, Julie Trimarco and Kate Zimmerman.
The BU chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association won the annual NSSLHA Chapter Honors award, an award given for an exemplary record of service to the community. This award was won over submissions from NSSLHA chapters from Duquesne, Misericordia, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, and Kutztown. Emily Katzaman, speech-language pathology graduate student, completed her two-year term as the student representative to the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association Executive Board.
From left: Matthew Bonsall, TJ McMillin and David Flynn.
Students presenters included Kelly Muir, an M.S. candidate in speech pathology, who presented her thesis research in a seminar entitled "Puckoh" and "Sushoo! An implicit decision task in sound symbolism (Pamela Smith, faculty adviser), and Kelly Kenyon, who presented her honors independent study research in a poster entitled Emotional reactions and perceptions towards patients with aphasia (Pamela Smith, faculty adviser).
Two research posters were presented by members of the Bloomsburg Undergraduate Research Group, a committee of the BU chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association. David Flynn, Matthew Bonsall, and TJ McMillin presented a poster titled "Facebook Me: Check out my audio/SLP profile!" (Thomas Zalewski, faculty adviser), and Amanda Bogert, Reanna Huthmacher, Julie Trimarco, and Kate Zimmerman presented their poster "Undergraduate Education: Where are all the men?" (Pamela Smith, faculty adviser) (photo attached). The NSSLHA research group of Amanda Bogert, Matthew Bonsall, David Flynn, Brookelynn Gileeny, Reanna Huthmacher, T.J. McMillin, Julie Trimarco, and Kate Zimmerman as well as faculty advisors Pamela Smith and Thomas Zalewski also presented a roundtable discussion for statewide NSSLHA chapters and advisors titled "Increasing the N in student research: How to start your own research group."
Dianne Angelo and Pamela Smith presented a research seminar titled "Tattoos and piercings: Disordered communication?"