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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)
• Retrospective Record Review- Examining Assessment Practices for Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders in Setting IV Programs (Dr. Angie Lauderbaugh)
• Impacts on student competency post care partner interaction​ (Kristin Berndt)
• Impacts on clinical competency post simulation​ (Kristin Berndt)
• Factors affecting students' perceptions of readiness for clinical placements​ (Kristin Berndt)
• Evaluation and Treatment of Post-Extubation Swallow Dysfunction in ICU Patients​ (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)