Stories

TCU COSD Students Empower Local SLPs Through Professional Development Day
Harris College’s Davies School of Communication Sciences and Disorders (COSD) hosted a Professional Development Day, bringing together local school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to address real-world clinical challenges. Organized by COSD Ph.D. students and tied to Project INTERSECT, a U.S. Department of Education-funded initiative, the event focused on bridging research and practice.

Frogpreneur: Ayleen Garcia
Ayleen Garcia Hernandez ’18 founded Farfalla Therapy, a bilingual speech therapy practice that supports culturally and linguistically diverse families.

TCU Professor Honored with Distinguished Contribution Award
Jennifer Watson's 42-year career in communication sciences and disorders recognized for exemplary service.

Celebrating Academic Excellence
It is with great pride and honor that we announce the tenure, promotion and emeritus milestones achieved by 11 our esteemed faculty members. Their dedication, intellect and scholarly achievements have illuminated our University and enriched the academic community at large.

2024 Three-Minute Thesis Competition
An 80,000 word thesis would take nine hours to present. These graduate students had to do it in three minutes.

'Chance to Dance' Celebrates 10 Years
Texas Christian University is hosting its 10th Annual Chance to Dance, a free prom-like event for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families, at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 2, 2024, in the Brown-Lupton University Union on TCU’s campus.

Frogpreneur: Kenneth & Meghan Ruelas
This story follows the journey of Meghan Ruelas ’07 MS, CCC-SLP, and Kenneth Ruelas ’07 (’22 MBA), a dynamic couple who discovered their passion for speech-language pathology at TCU who aim to make the therapy experience less transactional and more relational.

Harris United: An Equity-Based Grading Approach
Ahmed Rivera Campos, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Davies School of Communication Sciences and Disorders spoke about “ungrading,” a form of “grading for growth” and explains the difference between an antiquated teaching approach versus an equity-based teaching approach.

Harris United: What Inclusive Instructors Do in Harris College
Harris United is hosting a Lunch & Learn series this academic year focusing on what inclusive instructors do in Harris College.