News at Adelphi

Adelphi University’s communication sciences and disorders program held a combined Pinning and White Coat Ceremony this year for the first time.

The chair of the Adelphi University Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is a worldwide leader in helping people survive and recover from strokes—from championing an intergenerational initiative to recognize stroke symptoms to international stroke organization leadership.

The event recognized and celebrated second-year students dedicated to careers helping others communicate, as well as their families and alumni committed to student success.

Adelphi neurolinguist looks at how healthy and impaired brains process words with multiple meanings.

President Christine M. Riordan’s meeting with university officials in the Dominican Republic is the latest development in Adelphi’s strategic efforts to create global connections that benefit our students.

Inspired by his grandfather’s struggle with Broca’s aphasia, molecular neuroscience major Hemish Naidoo explores scientific literature for patterns in language loss. His goal is to find clues that could inform future treatments and support those affected by similar conditions.

This January, graduate students and faculty traveled to Jamaica to gain a global perspective on the field of speech-language pathology.

The new Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability is paving the way for open, global communication built on equity.

Language is an essential tool for connecting with others. As the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) states, effective communication is a human right that should be accessible to all. It is a right that speech-language pathologists and audiologists help people with language disorders exercise.

Adelphi’s communication sciences and disorders program provides a broad range of treatment, care and support to people of myriad linguistic backgrounds—from toddlers to seniors. We are privileged to work with diverse communities across Long Island.

A rising senior conducting research on retinal imaging; a trilingual future speech-language pathologist; and a doctoral student who brought social work to an orphanage in Kenya—our three Fulbright Scholars share their stories.

Opportunity to teach in the Madeira Islands honors her Portuguese heritage.

In Fall 2021, the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing (NBASLH, pronounced “in bahz la" or /nbazle/) welcomed Adelphi University as its newest affiliate.

In January 2020, seven-third year audiology doctoral students and two clinical professors, Dr. Ianthe Dunn-Murad and Dr. Rose Valvezan had the unique and humbling opportunity to travel with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to El Salvador, Central America to provide hearing services to over 1,200 individuals with hearing loss and hearing impairments.