SPED/CD Research & Outreach

A Camp New Amigos participant receives assistance from a camp counselor during one of the event’s arts and crafts sessions. (NMSU photo by Margaret Kovar)

This portion of the website highlights some of the important and innovative research and outreach efforts of the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders. Use the links at left and below to visit the Edgar Garrett Speech & Hearing Clinic,  the various labs, and learn about the research efforts of the department.

SPED/CD research and outreach efforts in the news:

• NMSU camp provides fun, safe place for children with autism

  2011 NMSU News Center article. See also Camp New Amigos YOIu Tube Video

• Cleft Palate Clinic

  2011 College of Education Milestones article.

• Bilingual speech pathologists, highly trained interpreters needed in health care settings

  2011 NMSU News Center article.

• Response to Intervention program improves student test scores in southern New Mexico

  2010 NMSU News Center article

• NMSU faculty member elected to represent New Mexico on ASHA Advisory Council

  2010 NMSU News Center article. Also featured in the 2010 College of Education's Milestones Report Faculty Acheivments page.

• NMSU professor hopes to find appropriate therapies for stuttering in "spit"

  2009 NMSU News Center article.

  Also featured in the 2010 College of Education's Milestones Report outreach article.

• Autism Resources needed in southern New Mexico

  2009 NMSU News Center article

• New grant gives funding to bilingual speech-language pathology students

  2008 NMSU News Center article.

• NMSU professor looks for causes of unusual speech pattern

  2008 NMSU News Center article.