FAU Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders

08/09/2026

Balance lab featured in The Coastal Star

In the research lab at FAU, neuroscience Ph.D. candidate Claudia Alvarez works at the laptop as medical student Paige DeForest wears a VR headset and Dr. Ali Danesh observes. Photos provided By Jan Engoren While enrolled in an artificial intelligence course at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute ...

04/09/2026

03/09/2026

Graduate students Haley Hymowitz, Emma Lawrence, Stevie Taylor, and Samantha Brown joined Clinic Director Kelly Steele in volunteering for Red & Blue Day of Service on August 31st for the Palm Beach County Food Bank. They helped weigh, sort, and package food for families facing food insecurity in Palm Beach.

02/09/2026

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31/08/2026

Dr. Christy Timm Fulkerson’s (seen here reading to our graduate students) Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) team was 1 of 5 selected from the 2026 VIP Seed Grant program for their proposal “Multimodal Wearable Sensing of Behavioral and Linguistic Signatures of Self-Regulation in Preschool Classrooms.” The selections honor teams that comprise cross-disciplinary faculty conducting cutting-edge research and engaging large groups of student researchers in long-term research projects. Congratulations to Dr. TF!

28/08/2026

Drs. Danesh & van Zelst received mention in the August 24, 2026 Florida Atlantic Insider.

27/08/2026

“SLP Island USA”, created by and starring the 2nd year graduate students, debuted at the August 25 NSSLHA Buddy Meeting.

26/08/2026

Faculty member Dr. Anne van Zelst co-authored the study, "Against the clock: How time of day influences speech-motor learning in adolescents and young adults with and without childhood apraxia of speech," recently published in Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics.

The long-term implications of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) beyond childhood are relatively unknown. This research tracks production performance of a non-native vowel contrast following morning...

24/08/2026

Welcome to the new academic year! For the students, today is the:

21/08/2026

CSD representation at the College of Education Welcome Back ceremony. Can you guess the theme?