May 20, 2024 | Dear students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, As we enjoy the spring colors across campus, I welcome you to the latest departmental newsletter. It fills me with great pride to share the progress we’ve made in recent months and provide a glimpse into the […]
Category: Speech and Hearing Science
Georgia Malandraki named new head of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science
May 13, 2025 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Malandraki succeeds Pamela Hadley The College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Georgia A. Malandraki as the new head of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, effective January 2026. Dr. Malandraki brings with her an exceptional […]
Q&A: Pamela Hadley, SHS Department Head
Jan. 15, 2024 | Lisa Bralts Dr. Pamela Hadley joined the Department of Speech and Hearing Science in AHS in 2007 and has been department head since 2021. A tireless advocate for the groundbreaking work of SHS colleagues past and present, Dr. Hadley somehow found the time for an energetic interview on a sunny September […]
Master Plan: How campus investment will boost AHS master’s programs
Jan. 15, 2024 | Ethan Simmons Revamped online degrees are expected to expand the accessibility of AHS programs worldwide, reaching new students from underrepresented and nontraditional backgrounds Three master’s programs in the College of Applied Health Sciences are undergoing transformations for the digital age. After receiving a $2.035 million award from the University of Illinois […]
Global opportunities
April 03, 2024 | Anna Flanagan The College of Applied Health Sciences boasts a diverse student body in which 33 percent of the students belong to historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and 149 students are from other countries The Republic of Ghana has the second-largest population in West Africa. Until recently, Emmanuel Dubure was […]
Pamela Hadley honored with Stenberg Endowed professorship
May 6, 2025 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The daughter of a farmer in rural Illinois, Pamela Hadley had no “schema” for becoming a university professor. But a high school career filled with self-expression helped guide her toward an illustrious academic career that was culminated with a top honor. Hadley, the head of the Department of Speech and Hearing […]
AHS program trains—and pays for—skilled speech-language pathologists
Sept. 25, 2024 | Ethan Simmons A team of Applied Health Sciences professors obtained a five-year, $1.1 million grant from the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education to educate 10 speech-language pathologists Between stuttering, language delays and articulation problems, Marjorie Campbell saw the gamut of communication disorders while shadowing a […]
Message from the SHS Department Head
April 25, 2025 | Pamela Hadley, Charles and Kay Stenberg Professor and SHS Department Head Dear Students, Faculty, Alumni and Friends of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, As we step into the energy of spring 2025, I’m excited to share the latest updates from our department. It’s been a remarkable year, and we […]
Words That Bind
April 23, 2025 | Ethan Simmons A new weekly aphasia communication group is helping Illinois speech-language pathologists understand the condition In the days following her stroke, all Mary Moore could remember was two phrases: her name, and Dec. 26, the day she was born. A short five months later, Moore was in the Audiology and […]
SHS student Carbajal speaks her goals into existence
June 03, 2024 | Darina Lubenov Alexandra Carbajal discovered her passion for her major, Speech and Hearing Science, during her freshman year at the University of Illinois. After that, everything else she found was through drive and dedication. “I had a speech therapist when I was a kindergartener,” Carbajal said. “So, I know what a […]