Communication Sciences and Disorders

Celebrating PhD Candidate, Stephanie Fan’s Conference Success
In March, doctoral candidate, Stephanie Fan presented her research at the AMIA 2025 Informatics Summit, followed by winning 3rd place at this week's Bridge2AI Voice Symposium in Tampa for her poster on error analysis of a clinically-interpretable voice disorder screening model. Congratulations Stephanie!
The speech-language pathology master’s program has advanced in the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings for the second consecutive year, climbing to No. 39 nationwide.
Graduate Student Receives TSHA Award
Brianna Sanborn was awarded the Sara Haynes Scholarship from the TSH Foundation. This award is given to only one graduate student from Texas who demonstrates specific interest in working with adults with neurogenic disorders. Congratulation Brianna!
Graduate student, Christina Quinn, and her research mentor, Dr. Heather Dial, recently published an article in . This work is based on Christina's undergraduate thesis. Congratulations Christina and Heather!
Student Receives Provost's Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Madison Freeman, mentored by Dr. Amber Thiessen, received a PURS award to study supports for people with aphasia. The purpose of this study is to examine the way that people with aphasia visually attend to text-based cues that support language comprehension. The overall goal is to improve the communication of people with aphasia.

We have 9 research labs investigating human communication and 5 NIH-funded principal investigators.