IONA at ASHA!

Professor Leone and 7 Iona College undergraduate speech language pathology students traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to present at the annual American Speech Language Hearing Association's (ASHA) convention.

Meghan Murphy presented her honors' thesis project entitled "The technological and social skills of school-aged children."

Meghan Murphy and Dorothy Leone

Lauren Zanfardino, Elizabeth O'Halloran, Caitlyn Monigan, Sara Pettit, Cassondra Richards, and Jaclyn Shurman presented a research project they had been working on with Professor Leone for the past few semesters, entitled "The use and subsequent efficacy of MLU in clinical choices."

Lauren Zanfardino, Elizabeth O'Halloran, Caitlyn Monigan, Sara Pettit,
Cassondra Richards, and Jaclyn Shurman and Dorothy Leone

Professor Leone also presented "Early and late Spanish bilingual adults' perception of American English vowels" with colleagues from Teachers College, Columbia University.

 

• On September 9, 2012 Professor Pagnotta I presented a 1.5 hour class on "Workplace Ethics" for NYU's Stern School of Business course on Professional Responsibility (invited by Robert F. Roach, Chief Compliance Officer, NYU) .
• On September 10, 2012 Professor Pagnotta delivered a 2-hour seminar, "diversity DNA 2012: Context, Culture, Conflict, Communication" to Pace Law School's groundbreaking "New Directions for Attorneys" program.
• On October 10, 2012 Professor Pagnotta delivered another 2-hour seminar (a webinar) on "Diversity Issues in the Workplace" for clients of the Pro Bono Partnership (PBP). The PBP provides free business and transactional legal services to nonprofit organizations serving the disadvantaged or enhancing the quality of life in neighborhoods in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
• In mid-October, Professor Pagnotta was lucky enough to be profiled by Liz Brown in her "life after law" blog.
• On November 14, 2012 Professor Pagnotta deliveried, in Akron, Ohio, a seminar "Religion at the Workplace: A Delicate Balance" to the Akron Area Society For Human Resource Management.

SCS Professional Activities

On October 1, the SCS Department welcomed the performance group, Our Time Theatre. They gave a moving performance for Iona College students and faculty. Our Time is a non-profit organization that helps young people who stutter build confidence and communication skills through arts, speech therapy, and summer camp programs.

Photo Taken By: Phil Garber

Some of the great feedback we received about the event was:

• "I thought the discussion panel was the best. It opened my eyes to how difficult and debilitating stuttering could really be. I was amazed, but more so inspired by each of those kids."
• "It was fantastic and inspiring and eye-opening to see those kids perform."

The second edition of Dr. Behrman's textbook "Speech and Voice Science" was just released, published by Plural Publishing Inc.

 

Iona's Chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association held their annual Strides for Speech Walk on campus in April and raised over $2,000 for the on-campus clinic and the SHARE organization. It was a fun day for the students, faculty, and their families despite the rain!

Suzanne Thompson was awarded the 2012 New York State Speech-Language- Hearing Association's Doctoral Scholarship Award for her research on distortion product otoacoustic emissions and the middle ear. The award was presented after Professor Thompson gave a lecture on her current research at the organization's annual convention in Saratoga, NY. Professor Dorothy Leone, MS, CCC-SLP and 9 Iona College speech language pathology and audiology students presented their research entitled, "Exploring the Mean Length of Utterance Measurement as Part of Language Sample Analysis," at this year's New York State Speech Language Hearing Association's annual conference.

Westchester Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America

 

Professor Jennifer Gerometta presented "Speech Development of Monolingual and Bilingual toddlers: Event-Related Potential Responses and Language measures" at the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Montreal, Canada, in July, 2011. In October 2011, Professor Gerometta provided Irish accent coaching to student actors for their theater production, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh, directed by Professor Thomas Donnarumma.

Dr. Alison Behrman presented a workshop with colleagues at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's national convention on November 17, 2011: Folkins, J. and Behrman, A., "Making Introduction to Speech-Language Pathology More Compelling."

 

• October 2011: Assistant Professor Jennifer Gerometta served as accent modification coach for the Theater Department's production of the Irish play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
• March 2012: Assistant Professor Jennifer Gerometta was interviewed for the blog, tweenmedia (found at tweenmedia.wordpress.com). The blog, titled, "The Latest Trend (and it's Not One you Can Wear)", addressed vocal and language variation in the female population in the U.S. and how the media can influence language change.
• April 2012: Professor Gerometta presented "Neural Correlates of Perceptual Learning of Phonotactic Patterns in Young Children" at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
• April 2012: Along with students Alyssa Calvosa, Patricia Calvosa, Amelia DiCiccio, Cara Hynes, and Susan Richter; Assistant Professor Jennifer Gerometta presented the poster titled "An Oral History of Language Bias and Cultural Identity: Transforming Attitudes toward the Navajo Language" at New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference in Saratoga Springs, New York.
• April 2012: Jennifer Gerometta and Maria Armiento-DeMaria were awarded Iona's 2012-2013 CELTIC Faculty Instructional Technology Award.
• May 2012: Dr. Ferrero-Paluzzi presented her paper, The Body In Nursing: A Practical Discussion of Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy at the Philosophy of Nursing Conference in Banff, Alberta, CA.