Interdisciplinary team presents at Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Virginia Conference

On Friday March 23, 2018, students and faculty from Radford University’s Department of Music and the Waldron College co-presented at the annual conference for the Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Virginia in Williamsburg. Dr. Trish Winter, Associate Professor of Music and Adaisha Cole, senior music therapy student, presented alongside Dr. Corey Herd Cassidy, Associate Dean for the Waldron College, and graduate speech pathology students Erin Livingston and Bekah Lucas. The presentation titled “Interprofessional Collaboration Between Speech-Language Pathology and Music Therapy in Early Childhood” highlighted student research experiences from their summer work in the Preschool Language Lab, a summer program that seamlessly incorporates speech-language interventions and music therapy interventions for young children ages 18 months through six-years-of-age. 

Music Therapy students Adaisha Cole and Lizzy Kunde (not pictured) were generously supported by the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship through the Office of Undergraduate Research, allowing them to serve as student music therapists for the summer program and to present both regionally and nationally on their research.