Stories

Kristie is the owner of a tempo Voice Center, a private practice based in Fort Worth. Her primary focus is assessing and treating people with voice disorders, especially singers.

Graduate speech-language pathology students in the Davies School of Communication Sciences & Disorders recently visited Sydney, Australia as part of their summer study abroad course, “Evidence-Based Practice in Speech-Language Pathology: Developing a Global Perspective Through Australian Study.” Learn how their exploration of evidence-based practice, cultural diversity, and issues of health advocacy in the land down under enhanced their learning and growth at Harris College in their own words.

SAGE is part of TCU’s Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice Initiative, IPREP. This is a unique opportunity for collaboration between students from various backgrounds and disciplines to create solutions for healthier communities and safer health care systems.

The speech-language pathology spring cohort of 1997 recently returned to TCU to celebrate their 25-year reunion. They created an unbreakable bond that’s carried on throughout the years, and their stories spoke to what Harris College prepared them for. Here’s their perspective.

Camp Leaps is a FREE language and literacy program for early elementary children (age 4 up to entering sixth-grade) with identified speech, language and/or reading delays. Camp Leaps is made possible through generous support from the Fort Worth Scottish Rite Foundation, in partnership with the TCU Davies School of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

The TCU chapter of the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA) hosted its 8th annual Chance to Dance event, a prom-like event for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

Julissa Iracheta ’10 (MS ’12), CCC-SLP is a bilingual speech-language pathologist and owner of the private speech and occupational therapy clinic network, Talking Tadpoles.

Before graduating, before email and before social media existed, the 1997 cohort created a chain letter where one graduate wrote about what she was doing and then sent it off to the next person. This letter was rotated to keep up with each other.

The speech-language pathology (SLP) spring cohort of 1997 returned to TCU to celebrate their 25-year reunion. The class reunited with some of their former professors who are still here: Lynn Flahive, M.S., Jennifer Watson, Ph.D., and Irmgard Payne, M.S. ’94, to reminisce.