{"id":204913,"date":"2026-05-28T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204913\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:55:10","slug":"communication-through-connection-gannon-clinic-supports-erie-community-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204913\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Through Connection: Gannon Clinic Supports Erie Community | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"speech language pathology.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"675\" height=\"374\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>May is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month, and students and faculty at Gannon University are helping make communication more accessible through the university\u2019s Wellness Speech and Language Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guidance of licensed speech-language pathologists, graduate students in Gannon\u2019s program assist community members with screenings, evaluations, and treatment for a variety of communication needs.<\/p>\n<p>One of those patients is Andrew, who is nonverbal due to a rare genetic disorder. Through therapy at the clinic, student clinicians Emmalene Rosenberg and Lauren Billingsley have helped him learn to communicate using a tablet-based device with symbols.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Katya Hill, Chair of Communication Sciences at Gannon University, says Andrew\u2019s progress has been remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we first started the evaluation with this patient, he could not identify any symbols functionally, and he&#8217;s playing Uno.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The clinic gives graduate students hands-on experience while also providing vital resources and support for members of the Erie community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month, and students and faculty at Gannon University are helping make communication more accessible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9967,136,138,137,90293,9677,296,139],"class_list":["post-204913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-clinic","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-gannon","tag-gannon-university","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}