EASTERN NEWSROOM

Category: Health & Wellness

EWU provides speech therapy for Parkinson’s patients

March 6, 2018 by eastern247

Picture: Student singing with older women.

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

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Photo: Students speaking on stage

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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Building Partnerships for Health Services

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Photo: Health Services students present their poster

Two programs in the College of Health Science and Public Health have built a community partnership with Excelsior Youth Center to help EWU students learn while helping the organization in return. CHSPH’s undergraduate health services administration (HSA) program and graduate occupational therapy (OT) program have formed a partnership with Excelsior, a school and specialty medical

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Facility dog joins EWUPD to comfort victims in need

September 28, 2016 by eastern247

Police dog with harness

Sporting a calm demeanor, a canine vest and an EWU leash, Hilani, a two-year-old golden retriever and Labrador mix, joined the EWU Police Department last month to help comfort victims in need, specifically those who have been victims of sexual assault. “About three years ago, I started a sexual assault prevention program where I go

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