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College of Health Science and Public Health Graduates Class of 2025

May 2, 2025

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Congratulations to these difference makers as they go on to careers that safeguard the health and wellbeing of people and communities.

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EWU Speech and Language Clinic Pays it Forward

May 15, 2024

Photo of educational sculptures depicting speech anatomy.

A major change in billing practices will help even more patients benefit from the potentially life-changing therapies offered at the clinic.

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Scholarship Supports Future Speech Therapist

November 21, 2023 by Melodie Little

Scholarship Supports Future Speech Therapist

Hailey Arland, 22, plans to help children who struggle to communicate find their voice.

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Community Celebrates EWU at SIERR

October 26, 2023

Community Celebrates EWU at SIERR

The historic railroad building is now a hub for the university’s new nursing program and the long-running communication sciences and disorders program.

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Celebration of Scholarly Works Showcases Impactful Research

March 23, 2023

Celebration of Scholarly Works Showcases Impactful Research

Students and faculty from the EWU College of Health Science and Public Health submitted research that can better the health of children and adults.

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Intensive Stuttering Workshop Proves Successful

July 9, 2019 by David Meany

Students sit around a fire pit at a successful stuttering management workshop

Stutter with confidence. That is the philosophy at the heart of the Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP), a treatment program developed at Eastern Washington University and used for more than 35 years by faculty and students in EWU’s Communication Sciences and Disorders Program. Last week, EWU graduate students served as clinicians for seven stutterers, teaching

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EWU provides speech therapy for Parkinson’s patients

March 6, 2018 by eastern247

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For nearly four years, Eastern Washington University graduate students have been working side-by-side with faculty at the University Hearing and Speech Clinic, learning how to help restore the voices of those with Parkinson’s disease. Students in the communication sciences and disorders (CMSD) program and faculty work with patients in the LOUD Crowd group, a maintenance therapy

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CHSPH and St. Luke’s open new clinic

September 8, 2017 by eastern247

Photo: Exterior Spokane Teaching Health Clinic

EWU’s College of Health Science and Public Health (CHSPH) and St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute have created a collaborative out-patient therapy clinic program located in the recently opened Spokane Teaching Health Clinic (STHC). The emphasis on this program focuses on student learning opportunities within a clinical environment that provides excellence in patient care to meet the

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EWU hosts stuttering workshop

by eastern247

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Eastern Washington University is hosting an intensive summer workshop for people working to manage a stuttering disorder, July 9-23, at the University Hearing and Speech Clinic on the EWU Spokane Campus. The Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP) program was developed 52 years ago by Emeritus Professor Dorvan Breitenfeldt, and has been utilized at Eastern since

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