Rotary Club’s Visit
The Rotary Club of Vancouver donated a substantial amount of funding to our School over the last two years. These funds were crucial for the establishment of the Clinical Speech Technology Teaching Lab (named after the Rotary Club of Vancouver and its Rotary Hearing Foundation) as well as for the purchase of much needed equipment […] Read More >
Healthy Hearing Program
The School of Audiology and Speech Sciences has the honour of once more running the Healthy Hearing program at the BC Special Olympics winter Healthy Athlete event. This will take place on Saturday, Feb. 19 from 10 am to 3 pm at Notre Dame Secondary School in East Vancouver. This is a very exciting day […] Read More >
Upcoming Talk
On Monday, Jan 27th, we are pleased to be hosting the following talk (12:00-12:50 in Room 355 Friedman Bldg at UBC Point Grey campus): “Use of the Extended Speech Intelligibility Index (ESII) and the Hearing In Noise Test (HINT) to quantify functional hearing ability” The talk will be given by Sigfrid D. Soli, PhD, a […] Read More >
CILS Language Symposium: Call For Submissions
The Centre for Intercultural Language Studies is having its 10th annual language symposium on Friday, May 9, 2014. They are now accepting submissions for 20 minute presentations related to their theme for this year: “Intercultural Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward.” “Reports on small/large-scale research projects, research proposals, preliminary results of ongoing work, or teaching workshops […] Read More >
Congratulations to Dr. S. Small
As of December 23, 2013, Dr. Susan Small has been awarded the Eric W. Hamber Professorship in Clinical Audiology. We offer her our warm congratulations and wish her all the best in her future career endeavors. Read More >
Experimental Eskimos” Documentary Showing
Please join us for a viewing of the following film in Room 355 on Monday January 20 from 12:05-12:55. The film is titled, “Experimental Eskimos”, a 2009 Canadian documentary directed by Barry Greenwald. “The ‘Experimental Eskimos’ documents an …attempt at social engineering…[following] Peter Ittinuar, Zebedee Nungak and Eric Tagoona, who, as 12-year-old boys, were shipped […] Read More >
Moko Chen`s Thesis Defence
You are cordially invited to attend Moko Chen’s thesis defence on Friday, December 20 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, in Room 354 in the Friedman Building. Her thesis will be on the effect of stimulus duration on the acoustic change complex in four-month-old infants. Read More >
Call For Colloquium Speakers
Please note that we have time slots for the SASS colloquium series scheduled for Tuesdays from 4-5pm or 5-6pm and Wednesdays from 12-1pm. If you or someone you know (colleague, student, etc.) would like to present a 50 minute colloquium talk, please let us know. Read More >
UBC Audiology majors visit YVR’s Noise Abatement Facility
The senior Audiology class and Instructor Sharon Adelman visited the Vancouver Airport Authority’s Engine Run-Up and Noise Abatement facility at YVR in early November. This was the capstone to our course on Noise and Hearing Conservation. We were hosted by Mark Cheng, Supervisor of YVR’s Noise Abatement and Air Quality programs, and Kevin Hong, Manager […] Read More >
Poster Symposium
Our annual poster symposium in AUDI 575 (Language Development and Disorders in the School Years) will be held next week, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, between 11:30 am and 1 pm, and on Friday, Nov., 29, between 1pm and 2:30 pm in room 354. The students in the class have put a lot of thought and […] Read More >