UBC SASS Graduate Kevin Frew featured on CTV
UBC SASS graduate Kevin Frew featured on CTV demonstrating the use of iPads for the treatment of language disorders following a stroke. One of the apps was developed by Megan Sutton, a regular contributor to the School’s Aphasia Mentoring Program. http://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=899089&binId=1.1184694&playlistPageNum=1 Read More >
MSc. thesis oral presentation and defence – Heather Holliday
All are welcome to attend the following MSc thesis oral presentation and defence. The presentation, by Heather Holliday, will be held in the Friedman Bldg, Room 354, at noon tomorrow. Wednesday March 27th 2013, 12:00pm – 2:00pm (We will have a brief break before 1 pm so that people can leave if they need to) UBC […] Read More >
Special Olympics BC – Healthy Hearing program
Special Olympics BC held their annual Healthy Athlete event last Saturday, for which the School of Audiology & Speech Sciences ran the. This is only the second year Healthy Hearing has been included in the many health promotion stations at the event. Over 150 athletes attended, along with their coaches and families. Running our program […] Read More >
SASS team participates in the AMSSA 2013 Diversity Health Fair
SASS team participates in the AMSSA 2013 Diversity Health Fair (http://www.amssa.org/). Our team – first year students Yiwan, Chelsea, Gill (Audiology), and Helen (Speech); Surrey Hearing Care staff Maria and Normand; and Darlene and Sharon – saw over 80 individuals from various ethnic and linguistic backgrounds for hearing screening and discussion. Thank you to all SASS […] Read More >
Celebrating 25 Years of Service
Congratulations to Ms. Bailey, Dr. Barker, Dr. Bernhardt, Ms. Bryant, Dr. Carrillo, Dr. Durbach, Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Kinach who were recently awarded the 25 or 45 years of Service Awards. The awards allow the University to recognize staff and faculty who have contributed 25 or 45 years of dedicated service to the University and […] Read More >
Allison Mackey’s Thesis Defence
Congratulations to Allison Ruth Mackey for successfully defending her thesis titled “Maturation of Skull Properties with Implications for the Fitting and Verification of the Soft Band Bone-Anchored Hearing System for Infants and Young Children” on Wednesday, February 27th, 2013. Read More >
2013 hearing screenings and tests at Special Olympics
Special Olympics BC held their annual Healthy Athlete event last Saturday, for which the School of Audiology & Speech Sciences ran the Healthy Hearing program. This is only the second year Healthy Hearing has been included in the many health promotion stations at the event. Over 150 athletes attended, along with their coaches and families. […] Read More >
Rotary Hearing Foundation donation to the school
The Rotary Hearing Foundation of the Rotary Club of Vancouver has donated $132,700 to the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences to purchase state-of-the-art equipment used by speech language pathologists to diagnose and treat speech and voice disorders. Located in the Clinical Speech Technology Teaching Laboratory, which will be named in honour of the foundation, […] Read More >
Invitation to poster symposium in AUDI 575
Our annual poster symposium in AUDI 575 (Language Development and Disorders in the School Years) will be held next week, on Wednesday Dec 5, between 11am and 12:30pm, and on Friday Dec 7, between 1pm and 2:30 pm in room 354. Different groups of students will be presenting on each day. This is an exciting […] Read More >
2012 Graduation Reception
REMINDER: For graduating students…… Don’t forget to join our celebratory graduation reception this Friday, Nov 23, 2012 in Room 316. It starts right after the convocation ceremony from 11:00AM to 12:30PM. Come and celebrate your successful completion and honour those who are still completing the program! Today (November 20, 2012) is the last day to […] Read More >