Student Engagement and Accomplishments
Fall 2024

ASHA Convention 2024
CDIS Undergraduate student Ana L. Hernandez presenting a poster at the ASHA Convention in Seattle, Washington on December 7th, 2024. Great job Ana!
World Stuttering and Cluttering Organization Congress 2024
World Stuttering and Cluttering Organization Congress 2024
Dr. Irani and CDIS students Grace Sargent and Gracie Bourchard presented their research poster on a pilot study of virtual reality applications for research and intervention. Dr. Irani, along with another colleague, also presented a research poster on fluency development in Bilingual Spanish-English children.
WSRCA Student Healthcare Expo
WSRCA (Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area) Student Healthcare Expo
Our students and faculty members were very excited to show to High School students what our program is about.
Friendsgiving
CDIS First Generation College Student Celebration






Game Night
Summer 2024
Game Night
Our CDIS faculty, staff, and students enjoyed the company, food, and games on a beautiful evening!
Spring 2024
Congrats to our Master's Class of 2024!

Senior Celebration 2024
Total Solar Eclipse 2024
All students, faculty members, and staff had so much fun during the Eclipse on April 8th, 2024. It was a wonderful experience.
Outstanding Academic Student Awards

We're very proud of our CDIS student Lois Umali! She received the Outstanding Academic Graduate Student award.

Congratulations to Zoe Starnes-Kemper! She received the Outstanding Academic Undergraduate Student Award during the College of Health Professions Student Awards Luncheon in the Round Rock campus.
College of Health Professions Research Forum 2024

Congratulations to Sarah Paddock, one of our CDIS Leveler students, for obtaining 2nd place! Her research poster title was “Positive Themes Emerging from Collaborative Stories Created by Persons with Aphasia.”

Dr. Yang with the collaboration of Gracie Bouchard, Darcy Carothers, Jaycee Danford, Kelsey Majek, Alexis Reinwald, Grace Sargent, and Zoe Starnes-Kemper, won 2nd place. Their research poster was “Acoustic Characteristics of English Intonation in Mandarin-English Bilinguals.” Keep up the good work!
1st Generation Latina in Speech Language Pathology
Barbara Fernandes, a 1st generation Latina in Speech Language Pathology, delivered a speech on March 6th, 2024 to inspire our CDIS students.




Bilingual Concentration Students in Guatemala

The Bilingual Concentration arrived in Guatemala on February 26th, 2024 to provide speech therapy services to patients at Centro Moore.

Dr. Maria Resendiz, Joslyn Balli, Kelsey Lindsay Alexander, and Monica Reyes traveled to Guatemala to provide speech therapy services to patients who received cleft palate repair surgery.
"Pal"entine Event 2024
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Texas Laryngectomee Association Conference 2024

Lia Salazar won the “Rookie of the Year” award at the 2024 Texas Laryngectomee Association's conference in January.

The Master of Science in Communication Disorders (MSCD) and the Master of Arts (MA) in Communication Disorders residential education programs in speech-language pathology at Texas State University are accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2200 Research Boulevard, #310, Rockville, MD 20850, 800-498-2071 or 301-296-5700.