CSD ‘Brings Home The Gold’ at the 2019 SHAV Conference
At SHAV, first-year graduate students present their research projects and compete against other graduate students from CSD programs throughout the state of Virginia. Longwood students, Shannon Graham, Courtney Kaczmarek, Lizzie Llewellyn, and Payton Yates were awarded first place during the research poster presentations. Their award winning research was titled, “Effects of Instruction Method on Competency and Perception of Proloquo2Go.”
In addition to winning first place in research, another Longwood CGPS student received an award. Lucy Wallace, a senior in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program, was recognized with the SHAV Outstanding Student Leader Award. “As a Longwood student of the CSD program, I had an array of opportunities and experiences available to me…highlights include serving as an executive officer in the Longwood National Student Speech Language Hearing Associates (NSSLHA) chapter for four years, collaborating with the Farmville Lions Club and Longwood Student Government Association to establish a Longwood Lions chapter, and working with the Infant and Toddler Connection of the Heartland’s annual Christmas Giving Tree program,” Wallace stated. Wallace attributes a large part of her success to the faculty and staff in the Longwood CSD program, stating, “They are committed, passionate, and genuinely interested in preparing students to succeed.”
Dr. Mani Aguilar, Clinical Audiologist at Longwood’s Speech, Hearing, and Learning Services, received the State Clinical Achievement Award at the 2019 SHAV Conference. She was recognized for her partnership with the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, offering a Technology Assistant Program at Longwood. Longwood now serves as a demonstration site for assistive listening devices for persons with hearing loss. This partnership has generated over 200 patient visits, with the dispensing of such devices as personal amplifiers, visual alert systems, and captioned telephones. “Mani created a support group for persons with hearing loss that has a regular participation of 25 members in each monthly meeting,” stated Dr. Lissa Power-deFur. “The persons with hearing loss in Southside Virginia are so fortunate that she is here.” In response to her recent achievement, Aguilar recognized the amazing support she has received from her department at Longwood. “The award I recently received from SHAV was possible because of our wonderful leader, Dr. Lissa Power-deFur, as well as the efforts of our entire team of faculty, staff, and students!”
Project JumpStart Assistant
2019-2020
Part-Time, Fall & Spring
This GA will support Project JumpStart, a preschool early literacy program, and will provide support to the Director in preparing materials for the preschool activities, newsletters for parents, and marketing materials.
This position is open to students in the CSD master’s program.
If you have questions, contact Dr. Lissa Power-deFur, powerdefurea@longwood.edu, 434.395.2369
Standard Part-Time Academic Assistant Position
College of Education & Human Services – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Funding Source: Project JumpStart Foundation funds
Status: FILLED
Assistant to the Audiologist at the Speech, Hearing, and Learning Services (SHLS)
2019-2020
Part-Time, Fall & Spring
Responsibilities include the following:
- Disseminate audiology patient reports to physicians, schools, etc. in coordination with front-office staff
- Scan all audiology patient records into electronic medical record system
- Prepare audiology observation opportunities for fellow graduate students
- Assist in the coordination of hearing screenings
- Assist in teaching labs for Introduction to Audiology and Hearing Science course (CSDS 361)
- Position open to students in the CSD master’s program
For full job description, contact Dr. Mani Aguilar, aguilarmc@longwood.edu, 434.395.2341
TWO Standard Part-Time Academic Assistants
College of Education & Human Services – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Funding Source: CGPS, SHLS
Status: Two positions FILLED
Assistant to Speech Language Clinic Director
2019-2020
Part-Time, Fall & Spring
- Assist in clinical paperwork and filing
- Act as office assistant
- Complete various tasks pertaining to clinic
- Maintain clinic inventory
- Position open to students in the CSD master’s program
For full job description, contact Wendy Pulliam, Clinic Director, pulliamwj@longwood.edu, 434.395.2771
Standard Part-Time Academic Assistant
College of Education & Human Services – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Funding Source: CGPS
Status: FILLED
Communications Sciences & Disorders Program and Research Support
2019-2020
Part-Time, Fall & Spring
- Provide research support for the Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty. Tasks will include data coding, preparation of tables, literature reviews, and preparation of materials for presentation (including development of posters).
- This position is also responsible for managing registration for the webinars CSD offers through the VA Dept of Education grant (creation of promotional materials, registration, on-site set-up).
- Position open to students in the CSD master’s program
For full job description, contact Dr. Lissa Power-deFur, powerdefurea@longwood.edu, 434.395.2369
Standard Part-Time Academic Assistant Position
College of Education & Human Services – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Funding Source: CGPS
Status: FILLED
Communication Sciences & Disorders Teaching Assistant
2019-2020
Part-Time, Fall & Spring
- Provide tutoring for undergraduate students in Communication Sciences and Disorders in their phonetics, anatomy and physiology, speech science, neurology, and audiology classes.
- Serve as laboratory assistant for speech science and audiology labs.
- Assist faculty with proctoring tests and providing review sessions, as needed.
- Position open to students in the CSD master’s program
For full job description, contact Dr. Lissa Power-deFur, powerdefurea@longwood.edu, 434.395.2369
Standard Part-Time Teaching Assistant Position
College of Education & Human Services – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Funding Source: CGPS
Status: FILLED
Speech, Hearing, and Learning Services – Marketing Assistant
2019-2020
Part-Time, Fall & Spring
- Assist the SHLS Director with marketing activities (preparing materials for presentation, health fairs, etc.; drafting language about SHLS for marketing materials; identifying information interesting to the general public for the SHLS Facebook page and managing the page).
- Assist the Director with donor relations (e.g., writing thank you notes) and assist in the SHLS office with administrative tasks, as needed.
- Position open to students in the CSD master’s program
For full job description, contact Dr. Lissa Power-deFur, powerdefurea@longwood.edu, 434.395.2369
Standard Part-Time Academic Assistant Position
College of Education & Human Services – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Funding Source: CGPS
Status: FILLED
Project JumpStart Assistant
2018-2019
Part-Time, Fall & Spring
This GA will support Project JumpStart, a preschool early literacy program, and will provide support to the Director in preparing materials for the preschool activities, newsletters for parents, and marketing materials.
This position is open to students in the CSD master’s program.
If you have questions, contact Dr. Lissa Power-deFur, powerdefurea@longwood.edu, 434.395.2369
Standard Part-Time Academic Assistant Position
College of Education & Human Services – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Funding Source: Project JumpStart Foundation funds
Status: FILLED
J. Taylor at SHAV Conference!!!
Hello Longwood Students, Faculty, and Staff!!
My name is Jalyn Destene Taylor and I am a first year Graduate student in the speech language pathology program. I am originally from Philadelphia, PA and I have found that I love the small town of Farmville, VA and the Longwood University community. I attended the 60th Annual Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Virginia (SHAV) Conference from March 22nd to March 24th, 2018 in Williamsburg, VA. I learned a lot during the seminars that I attended during the conference. I look forward to using my new knowledge about pediatric dysphagia and feeding therapy, collaborating with other professionals when it comes to working in the schools, and integrating tele-practice into my future work as a speech language pathologist. Another thing that I did during SHAV was a poster presentation with my parters, Seraphina Chabinec and Leah Horton about Vocal Hygiene pertaining to Physical Education Majors. To our delight, we won the first place prize out of 22 posters during the convention!!! Above are some pictures of me and my partners from the convention with our stunning poster. It was such a wonderful experience and I would love to attend next year!
SHAV Conference 2018
SHAV was a wonderful experience. I had the opportunity to go many different presentations to further my education in Communication Sciences and Disorders. The presentations that were of interest to me included Social Pragmatics Communication Disorders: Best Practices for Intervention, Supporting Students with Communication Deficits in Social Participation, Social Language Skills Training Within School-Based Curriculum, Getting Started in Telepractice for the SLP and Intensity of Treatment in Aphasia: More Than One Definition. In addition to going to these presentations, I had the opportunity to present a poster with my group on whether speaking fundamental frequency influences ratings of speaker competence and social attractiveness. Although we did not place in the poster competition, it was a wonderful experience being able to present our research to professionals and being able to look at other graduate programs research posters. It was interesting to look at the different interests regarding research topics between the graduate programs. Overall, I feel like I have furthered my education in many areas because of the SHAV conference. I am not from Virginia, but I hope that my home state has a similar type of conference so that I can further my knowledge in Speech Language Pathology. This is a field that is always changing. It is important that SLPs go to these conferences to stay in tune with current information in all the areas of Speech Language Pathology. 
