speech-language pathology

March 25, 2020

Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology programs lauded

Vanderbilt’s Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology graduate programs are the best in the country for those specialties, according to rankings published by U.S. News & World Report.

By Kelsey Herbers
March 19, 2020

Partnership speeds speech-language interventions

Preschoolers in the Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) district are more quickly being identified as having a communication disability thanks to a new partnership between the district and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

By Kelsey Herbers
December 27, 2019

Grants bolster scholarships for students studying autism, pediatric hearing loss

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences has received three new grants from the U.S. Department of Education to train graduate students to work with children with autism and hearing loss.

By Kelsey Herbers
Dominique Herrington, MS, left, assists Aphasia Group member Alex Pearson in preparing for the day’s large-group discussions.
February 14, 2019

Aphasia Group helps patients build communication skills

For Dominique Herrington, MS, assistant manager of Rehab Services for the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences’ Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute, Thursdays are the best days to come to work.

By Kelsey Herbers
little boy with cochlear implant interacting with his teacher
April 26, 2018

Remote microphone system helps increase vocabulary of children with hearing loss

Children with hearing loss who use remote microphone systems (RMS) at home have access to about 42 percent more words each day, providing a critical boost to vocabulary and language learning, a Vanderbilt study has found.

By Matt Batcheldor