How Being a Stressed-Out Grad Student Impacted My Voice

School—whether in undergrad, grad school, or pursuing doctoral studies—can bring along great amounts of stress. While stress appears in all of our lives, we each react and cope differently. It has many impacts on our mental and physical health but understanding how stress affects our voice is not as widespread—even for a speech-language pathology graduate student, like myself. Subtle Differences in My Voice Throughout the…

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Ideas for Staying Connected to Your CSD Friends

With the socially isolating impacts of COVID-19, feeling connected to your CSD friends is hugely important—now more than ever! We’ve heard from a lot of you, asking for ways your NSSLHA chapter can connect virtually. Here are some ideas we’ve gathered from chapters who have done it successfully . . . Don’t Miss BHSM Like years’ past, you can’t host an info table on campus…

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A CSD Student and an Engineering Student Walk Into a Research Lab . . .

We’ve all heard about how important it’ll be for us to work collaboratively with those in related professions—physical and occupational therapy, to name a couple. It’s also important for us to collaborate with students enrolled in related programs now too. But what about collaborating with other programs that you wouldn’t initially think of as being related? Collaboration Between CSD and Engineering Departments The University of…

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5 Tips to Excel in Online Learning

Online degree programs have typically been met with skepticism and considered the “easy” way to earn a degree. But the Coronavirus has shaken up everyone’s world. After spending years trying to refine and master personal study habits, the last month has thrown most, if not all, university students into a new world of learning—virtually. Students and professors alike have all found that online learning isn’t…

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