Get Involved

Our faculty offer extensive research and community-based learning opportunities for students. Engaging in these opportunities provides invaluable experiences to enhance your academic knowledge, practice your growing professional skills and make a meaningful impact in the community. Take the initiative to contact faculty and get started!

Research Opportunities

• American Sign Language (Professor Kari Sween)
  • Social Justice in the Deaf Community
  • Decreasing Communication barriers
• Audiology (Dr. Kristi Oeding)
  • Pharmacy and over-the-counter hearing aids
  • Assistive device accuracy for speech-to-text
  • Access to hearing services
• Speech-Language Pathology
  • Brain Injury Research on Dementia (Dr. Sheen Chiou)
  • Non-invasive assessment of simulated inducible laryngeal obstruction using electroglottography (Dr. Bruce Poburka)
  • Speech-Language and Learning Lab (Dr. Eric Strong)
    • A mixed methods investigation of sentence combining activities on oral language development in school-age children
    • Bilingualism and Stuttering
    • How children use and understand second-order mental state vocabulary to solve social problems
    • Validity and reliability of Kung-Fu and Junk-Food Frog wordless picture books in children

Community Projects

• American Sign Language (Professor Kari Sween)
  • ASL Club
• Audiology (Dr. Kristi Oeding)
  • Brochure on hearing accessible venues in Mankato
  • Take Joe to schools
  • Hearing screens in schools and Special Olympics
• Speech-Language Pathology
  • Garden EngAGEment (Drs. Kristi and Sheen Chiou)
  • NSA MSU-Mankato Stuttering Support Group and Camp Silver-Tongue! (Dr. Eric Strong)