Undergraduate and Graduate Research at the UMaine Student Symposium
The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders will have 9 poster presentations at the 2023 UMaine Student Symposium on Friday April 14th. Students and their presentation numbers and titles are listed below. We hope you are able to join us in learning about the great research conducted by our students!
Undergraduate Presenters
Research conducted in CSD 490: Senior Capstone (Research)
Krista Butler- 402- The Impact of International Adoption on the Language Development of Infants and Children in the United States
Kaitlynn Raye- 408- The Success of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in Adult Patients in Acute Care Settings
Student Directed Research Projects from the BEaR Lab mentored by Dr. Jessica Riccardi
Lydia Bradfield & Brooke Underhill (graduate student)- 409- Stakeholders Perspectives on Cognitive Fatigue
Sam Cartwright- 405- Rural Healthcare and Education Access and Utilization after Childhood Brain Injury
Sam Cartwright- 405- Rural Healthcare and Education Access and Utilization after Childhood Brain Injury
Graduate Presenters
Theses mentored by Dr. Jane Puhlman
Meaghan Balsdon- 412- The Relationship Between Social Cognition and Social Behavior of Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using the UCLA PEERS® for Young Adults Social Skill Program
Alysha Dagg- 413- The Effect of ‘PEERS for Young Adults’ on Quality of Life and Anxiety for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder – Level 1
Research conducted in CSD 601: Research Methods
Ola Akinyode & Paige Kavanaugh- 406- The Effect of Play-based Early Intervention Involving a Speech-Language Pathologist on Social Skills for Children with a Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder
McKenna Brodeur, Lauren Sabatino, Anna Williams, & Naomi Woodson- 404- Scoping Review of Interventions to Increase Verbal Utterances for Non-verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
McKenna Brodeur, Lauren Sabatino, Anna Williams, & Naomi Woodson- 404- Scoping Review of Interventions to Increase Verbal Utterances for Non-verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Calder Levine- 403- A Scoping Review on Cross-linguistic Transfer in Treatment of Bilingual Children with Language Impairments