Special Education and Communication Disorders: Recent Episodes
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The Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders is dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals with special needs, their families, schools and communities. It is one of seven academic departments within the College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Interim speech and language clinic coordinator Beth Dinneen provides a virtual tour of the new space in the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic dedicated to speech and language services.April 2023
This video shows an overview of what children can expect when they visit the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Translation Lab for a brain-picture study using electroencephalography (EEG). Learn more about the AAC Translation Lab at https://go.unl.edu/aact.
George Toman, a Special Education Ph.D. student, shares about what made him interested in pursuing his doctorate and his interest in improving professional development opportunities to better benefit special education teachers.
Katie Ericson, a Special Education Ph.D. student, discusses what brought her to Nebraska for her doctorate, and how she hopes her research will help Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TVIs).
Jake Greenwood is a Ph.D. student in biological systems engineering who has worked as a research assistant in Steven Barlow's Communication Neuroscience Lab for nearly six years. In this video, he discusses how he first got connected with Dr. Barlow, the research that he's been part of in the lab, and how the experience in the lab will help him in his future.
Austin Spoor is a first-year student in the Clinical Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.) program, but has a graduate assistantship in assistant professor Kevin Pitt's Augmentative and Alternative Communication Translation (AACT) Lab. In this video, he discusses the research experience he has gained in the AACT Lab and how that experience will benefit him in his future as an audiologist.
Erin Pfister, a Ph.D. student in special education, discusses why she decided to pursue her doctorate and her research goals to help students who persistently struggle with math.
Manuel Vicente, a third-year Clinical Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.), discusses his background in research, along with his capstone project studying how people with vestibular loss are affected by fatigue, and how research helps him as a clinician.
Bridget Leutzinger, a master's student in special education, discusses her thesis research project and why she decided to pursue a master's degree.
Assistant professor Susan Loveall discusses two research projects her team is currently working on in her Learning Lab for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Kendall Willems, a Ph.D. student in special education, discusses why she chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Nebraska and how she hopes research enhances her clinical psychology skills.
Ross Westemeyer, a Ph.D. student in the speech-language pathology program, discusses his interests in pursuing research and where he hopes to take his research in the future.
Professor Michelle Hughes discusses the three lines of research currently being conducted in her lab, the Cochlear Implant Research Lab.
Soyoung Park, a Ph.D. student in speech-language pathology, discusses what made her interested in research after nearly two decades as a speech-language pathologist, as well as her research interests within the field.
Associate professor Angela Dietsch discusses the two lines of research she is focused on currently in her lab, the Sensorimotor Integration for Swallowing and Communication (SISC) Lab. One area focuses on how different sensory inputs affect swallowing behaviors, while the other focuses on gender aspects of communication.
Kristen Job, a Special Education Ph.D. student, discusses her interests in creating interventions to help twice-exceptional students who are recognized as gifted and talented while also falling into one of the Special Education categories.
Danika Lang, a Special Education Ph.D. student, discusses her interests in research that helps students with emotional and behavioral disorders who also struggle with reading.
Assistant professor Yingying Wang discusses the two research projects her lab – Neuroimaging for Language, Literacy and Learning (NL3) Lab – is focused on currently.
Zach Cole is a Neuroscience Ph.D. student who works as a research assistant in the AAC Translation Lab at the Barkley Center. In this video, he shares about his experience as a student from outside the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders working in SECD assistant professor Kevin Pitt's research lab.
The Augmentative and Alternative Communication Translation (AACT) Lab focuses on the development and implementation of AAC devices for adults and children with severe physical impairments. In this video, Austin Spoor, a graduate research assistant in the lab, discusses two of the current studies using brain-computer interface technology – one for children and one for adults.
Jake Greenwood, a research assistant at the Communication Neuroscience Lab, discusses the overall research goals of the lab, including the technologies used and developed by lab personnel.
Kaitlyn Waszak, a Clinical Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.) student, discusses her capstone research pilot study about auditory function following sports-related concussions.
Priya Premkumar, a Human Sciences Ph.D. student, discusses her interests in research related to cochlear implants and vestibular function.
Emily Walczak, a Clinical Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.) student, discusses her capstone research about the effects of substance use on vestibular function.
Joslyn Parsons, a Clinical Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.) student, shares about her capstone research project examining the effects of hearing aids and hearing loss on an individual's localization ability.
This video is geared toward families in Nebraska with children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and professionals who work with these families. It provides a summary of services available from several statewide agencies and organizations.
Overview of the HealthyU health literacy curriculum developed by the Academy for Child and Family Well Being.
Carly Johnson, a junior communication sciences and disorders major, discusses the CSD program and opportunities undergraduate students within the program have to be involved. Johnson talks about the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA), opportunities with research labs in the Barkley Memorial Center, as well as exposure to services provided in the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic.
Assistant professor Naomi Rodgers, director of the Stuttering Lab, invites adults who stutter to participate in research at her lab.
Kevin Pitt provides a virtual tour of his research lab, the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Translation Lab, at the Barkley Memorial Center.
Virtual tour of the facilities used by Yingying Wang's Neuroimaging for Language, Literacy and Learning (NL3) Lab at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (CB3).
A short tour of some student spaces in the Barkley Memorial Center: audiology graduate student offices, speech-language pathology graduate student offices, Ricketts Computer Lab, and the student lounge.
Six faculty from the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders guide viewers through virtual tours of their respective labs to discuss their research. \ 0:03 – Steven Barlow's Communication Neuroscience Laboratories // 7:18 – Angela Dietsch's Sensorimotor Integration for Swallowing and Communication Lab // 10:45 – Susan Loveall's Lab // 11:42 – Kevin Pitt's Augmentative and Alternative Communication Translation Lab // 15:05 – Naomi Rodgers' Stuttering Lab // 17:23 – Yingying Wang's Neuroimaging for Language, Literacy and Learning Lab \
Three audiology faculty from the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders guide viewers through virtual tours of their respective labs to discuss their research. \ 0:03 – Marc Brennan's Amplification & Perception Lab // 4:55 – Michelle Hughes' Cochlear Implant Research Lab // 7:29 – Amanda Rodriguez's The Concussion and Vestibular Evaluation Lab \
Kristy Weissling, speech-language pathology clinic coordinator for the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic, guides viewers on a virtual tour of the speech and language clinic located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's East Campus.
Kelly Pritchett, audiology clinic coordinator at the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic, guides viewers on a virtual tour of the audiology clinic located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's East Campus.
Faculty from Nebraska's Speech-Language Pathology program answer common questions about graduate assistantships and financial aid available to graduate students.
Faculty from Nebraska's Speech-Language Pathology program answer common questions about coursework and grades as they relate to the application to the graduate program.
Faculty from Nebraska's Speech-Language Pathology program answer common questions about the personal statement, resume and writing sample sections of the application to the graduate program.
Faculty from Nebraska's Speech-Language Pathology program answer common questions about the letters of recommendation that are required with an application to the graduate program.
Faculty and staff from Nebraska's Speech-Language Pathology program answer common questions about preparing for and taking the GRE as part of applying for graduate school.
Faculty from Nebraska's Speech-Language Pathology program answer common questions about applying for the graduate program at Nebraska.
Faculty and staff from Nebraska's speech-language pathology program answer common questions about applying for graduate school.
Several faculty from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders highlight the graduate-level options offered in the special education program.
Speech-language pathology faculty from the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders answer the question, "Why should I consider Nebraska's speech-language pathology program for graduate school?"
Josh Sevier, assistant professor of practice and audiologist, and Emily Sanders, Nebraska Doctor of Audiology student, go through the process of activating Sonja Miller's new cochlear implant at the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic.
Highlights from the two-week education abroad experience in Costa Rica in May 2019. The program was led by associate professor of practice Sue Kemp and professor John Maag from the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, and had 13 undergraduate student participants from four majors (elementary/special education, speech-language pathology, secondary education, psychology).
Nebraska audiologist Michelle Hughes is studying the performance of cochlear implants and working to improve access to clinical services for CI recipients in rural areas. Hughes conducts her research in a new, soundproof lab on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus.
Highlights from the speech-language pathology graduate student trip to Costa Rica, where they provided accent modification services in May 2018.
This is a video about HealthyU, a web-based health literacy curriculum being developed by researchers at the Academy for Child and Family Well Being in collaboration with professionals from Oregon, Alabama, University of South Florida and Lincoln Public Schools.