Congratulations to Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology student Minna Natsuko Ito, recipient of a 2022 API Scholarship from the Asian Pacific Islander Speech-Language-Hearing Caucus.
(10/11/22, Boston Globe) Occupational Therapy Professor and Department Chair Emily Rothman shared a letter with the Boston Globe in response to a recent study, “Doctors’ attitudes on disabilities questioned: In study, lack of accommodation and insensitivity.” “More than 61 million adults and 3 million children in the United States live with a disability, including about 25 […]
The BU Sargent College Department of Occupational Therapy invites you to attend “Leading the Way: Boston University Entry-level OTD Capstone Presentations.” Date: August 19, 2022 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard TimeLocation: Hybrid (In-Person and via Zoom) Sessions are in 20-minute time blocks: 10-minute presentations, 5 minutes for questions, and 5 minutes of […]
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences doctoral candidate Hilary Miller was awarded one of two Raymond H. Stetson Scholarships in Phonetics and Speech Science from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Honoring the memory of pioneer phonetics and speech science investigator Professor Raymond H. Stetson, the scholarship facilitates research efforts of promising graduate students. The Stetson […]
These awards recognize outstanding seniors who show great potential professionally, make strong contributions to extracurricular activities, and exemplify the ideals of service, loyalty, thoughtfulness, and excellence of scholarship. The 2022 recipients are: Bernard Kutner Award Established in 1972 in memory of Dean Bernard Kutner, the award is presented to a graduating senior in recognition of […]
Congratulations to all the Sargent College seniors who presented their honors thesis projects this week. The Senior Thesis for Distinction is an opportunity for exceptional undergraduate Sargent College seniors to complete an in-depth research experience within a major or minor field of study. Under the supervision of a faculty mentor, this year, six students developed […]
Hilary Miller, a PhD candidate in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at Sargent College and graduate fellow at BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, was awarded a Predoctoral Individual National Research Service grant from the National Institutes of Health for her project “Predictors of Speech Motor Sequence Learning in Neurological Disorders.” Miller will […]
In this episode of BU’s Question of the Week podcast, Occupational Therapy Professor Gael Orsmond and PhD student Sharada Krishnan in the Families & Autism Research Lab offer a multifaceted perspective on how and why young women may have a different autistic experience compared to young men. In recent years, an increasing amount of anecdotal evidence […]
Autism advocate and scientist Dr. Temple Grandin toured Sargent College during her visit to Boston University. Dr. Grandin met with Sargent faculty and students to hear about autism research underway across our programs, including in Sargent’s Families & Autism Research Lab, Human Systems Neuroscience Lab, and Motor Development Lab Later in the day, Dr. Grandin […]
This personal reflection was written by MS in Nutrition student Shikha Advani (Sargent ’22) as part of the course Eating Disorders Treatment and Prevention and has been published on the Walden Behavioral Care blog. In the South Asian community, there is a significant stigma around mental illness. In my childhood, I never heard the term […]
The Boston University Department of Occupational Therapy is pleased to host a reception for OT Alumni at the 2022 American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Annual Conference in San Antonio. WhenThursday, March 31, 20227:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. WhereGrand Hyatt San Antonio River WalkPresidio AB600 E. Market St.San Antonio, TX
Third-year Doctor of Physical Therapy student Akshat Mehta (Sargent ’22) received the 2021 Ruth Hall Award from the American Physical Therapy Association of Massachusetts (APTA MA). This award recognizes a physical therapy student who demonstrates the professional qualities of dedication and caring, exemplified in the physical therapy career of Ruth Hall who dedicated her career […]
For healthcare professionals, the vow of “do no harm” is a guiding principle. But research and medical treatment for communities of color has sometimes been anything but harmless, afflicted with issues of informed consent, bias, and unethical practices. In the 1930s and ’40s, the Tuskegee Syphilis Project included nearly 400 Black men with the disease […]
In our Skills for Occupational-Based Practice I course taught by Clinical Assistant Professor Pedro Almeida, students learn to develop adaptive and compensatory strategies to help their future clients during the performance of activities of daily living. They also work to identify the biomechanical, cognitive, and sensory components required to perform such activities, for example, based […]
Nikita Chou (Sargent’24) and Dominick Farino (Sargent’24) during a provocation and alleviation lab session for their Physical Therapy Examination course, taught by Clinical Associate Professor Lee Marinko. The object of this class: learn how to determine which tissues may be responsible for a patient’s pain.