Please join Dr. James Dean and Dr. Frances Harris, who specialize in determining the best solutions for individuals with hearing loss and their families and frequent communication partners. The lecture is from 10:00 to 11:00 am at SLHS. For more information or to RSVP, call 626-6232 or email slhs@email.aarizona.edu.

Please join Hyesuk Cho, MA, Doctoral Candidate in SLHS, presenting on “Evidence for a Common Neural Substrate of
Orthographic Processing for Reading and Spelling.”

Please join us for the Fall L4 Lab Community Forum on October 22nd. The guest speaker is Edwin Maas, PhD, and his topic will be “Severe Articulation Disorders: Ideas for Challenging Students.”

The UA NSSLHA Chapter has awarded travel grants to Amy Lederle, Erin Chute and Rebecca Burton to attend the 2009 ASHA Convention in New Orleans.

Please join us for “The Curious Case of Tiny Tubetalker,” presented by Brad Story, PhD, Associate Professor, SLHS

This year’s Grunewald-Blitz Conference in Communication Disorders is set for October 9, starting at 8am. It will be held in DuVal Auditorium at the AHSC. The conference will focus on the development of a feeding, swallowing and nutrition evaluation team for children with feeding difficulties, and will showcase some of the expertise present in the Tucson community.  Registration brochure attached.

The Grunewald-Blitz Clinic for Communication Disorders in Children and the UA/Scottish Rite Wings on Words Child Language Center, in collaboration with The Parent Connection and Southwest Human Development, have been awarded a First Things First grant via the North Pima Regional Partnership Council. The Clinics will provide a training program for parents of young children birth to 5 years of age, as well as directors and teachers of care facilities serving these families. The training program will help providers and parents identify communication “red flags” as well as improve facilitation of language and communication development.

First Things First, approved by Arizona voters, works to ensure that our youngest children have access to quality early childhood experiences so they will start school healthy and ready to succeed. Across the state, FTF regional partnership councils - in collaboration with local leaders - identify the educational and health needs of children from birth through age 5 in their communities and fund strategies to address those needs.

Join Tharini Wijeweera, SLHS Academic Advisor, and others at the Student Union Ballroom on October 7 from 11am to 2pm.