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Please join us in congratulating Dr. Michael Cannizzaro on his appointment as associate dean for academic affairs for the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. A researcher, educator, clinician, and longtime CNHS leader, Dr. Cannizzaro has helped strengthen academic programs, support student success, and build partnerships that address workforce needs.

Attention all SLP’s! Current or future (or past!) we have some wonderful materials that were generously donated to us that we are trying to find some new homes for. Below are some pictures and a list of the items we have. Lots of copies of each item! Send us a message if you are interested in checking some of these items out to add to your materials collection!

More graduation fun - congrats CSD class of 2026! 🎓

Still smiling after celebrating our incredible CSD graduate and undergraduate students at graduation last weekend 🎓✨ We are so proud of all of your hard work, growth, and accomplishments. We can’t wait to see the impact you’ll make in the world of communication sciences and disorders! 💙

Go, Dr. Benham! 🎉🙌💚

Tiny tots are donning cameras to help advance research at the University of Vermont. They’re part of a study focused on speech-language disorders and early detection in toddlers. - https://www.wcax.com/2026/05/12/uvm-researches-speech-language-disorder-kids/

As we close out another semester here at the Eleanor M. Luse Center (our on-campus speech, language, and hearing clinic), we want to extend a huge THANK YOU to our incredible clients and families. 💙 Thank you for trusting us to be part of your journeys, for showing up each week with hard work and smiles, and for helping our graduate student clinicians learn and grow into compassionate future professionals. We can't wait to see what next semester brings! 👏🎉 #uvm #cnhs #slp

https://www.uvm.edu/cnhs/news/uvm-faculty-and-students-team-toddler-research

Our own Communication Sciences and Disorders professor Dr. Sara Benham teams up with Engineering students in the design lab to create a lightweight, durable toddler headcam—a custom research tool that captures children’s visual experience as they explore their world.

This innovative project supports research on how early visual input connects to language development, blending student creativity, hands-on design, and cutting-edge communication science.

Video credit: Chris Dissinger

UVM Faculty and Students Team Up on Toddler Research | College of Nursing and Health Sciences | The University of Vermont show the image caption close caption Professor Sara Benham (right) and SEED Program Director Keith Epstein (left) with students in the design lab. Photos and video by Chris Dissinger. UVM Faculty and Students Team Up on Toddler Research What happens when early childhood research meets senior enginee...

So proud of our CSD 2nd year graduate students who presented their research at the CNHS Ziegler Research Forum this morning! This is the last step before graduating next weekend! 🎓

CSD undergrad senior Freddie Tagupa also delivered an exciting data blitz where she shared her findings regarding Question Sequences in Conversational Narrative Impacted by Alzheimer’s Dementia. 🎉

Last but not least we also had a fantastic keynote speaker, Dr. Jana Iverson from Boston University who spoke to us about Developmental Cascades in Infancy and the intersection of On Time mobility and how this drives meaningful developmental change. ✨