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 and Interpreter Pathways (accessibility)
- Decreasing Communication barriers (due to audism)
Audiology (Dr. Kristi Oeding)
- Pharmacy and over-the-counter hearing aids
- Best method to screen hearing in noise
- Access to hearing services
Speech-Language Pathology
- Brain Injury Research on Dementia (Dr. Sheen Chiou)
- Impacts on student competency post care partner interaction (Center Director Kristin Berdnt)
- Factors affecting students’ perceptions of readiness for clinical placements (Center Director Kristin Berndt)
- Speech-Language and Learning Lab (Dr. Eric Strong)
  - A mixed methods investigation of sentence-combining activities on oral language development in school-age children
  - Reliability and validity of digitized wordless picture books
  - 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 typically-developing and language-different school-age children
  - Using CBT and SFBT alongside traditional stuttering therapy with children who stutter

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
- AuD Squad
Developing Screens in the community (Dr. Anne Larson)
Speech-Language Pathology
- Garden EngAGEment (Drs. Kristi Oeding and Sheen Chiou)
- NSA MSU-Mankato Stuttering Support Group and Camp Silver-Tongue! (Dr. Eric Strong)