Stories

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.

David Gaskin ’93, CRNA (’19 TCU Advanced Pain Management Fellowship Certificate) was born in Dallas but grew up in rural central Texas on a small ranch where he discovered his love of the outdoors and horses.

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.

The speech-language pathology spring cohort of 1997 returned to TCU to celebrate their 25-year reunion. They created an unbreakable bond that’s carried on throughout the years. Here’s what they had to say about it.

They say it’s all in a day’s work. TCU alum and Cook Children’s Medical Center Sarah Patzke Shaabani, ’14, RN was one of 25 medical professionals who recently helped perform the delicate operation of separating conjoined twins, a first for the Fort Worth pediatric hospital.

The “Public Health School Nurse Workforce Initiative” course within TCU Nursing takes a service-learning approach where students learn skills from experienced Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD (EMSISD) mentor nurses and, in turn, the students provide a sought-after and meaningful skill-based experience to EMSISD nurses.

TCU-SMU Athletic Training Workshop returns to the TCU campus this summer as an on-campus residential experience where students who are interested in learning what a career in athletic training is really like.

This January, students from the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences Department of Kinesiology’s athletic training program attended the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association’s (SWATA) 15th Annual Student Development Workshop in San Marcos, Texas.