Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus Sponsors
Speech-Language-Hearing Career Awareness Day, October 29

Brooklyn, N.Y. — Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, in conjunction with national speech-language-hearing associations, is sponsoring National Communication Science and Disorders Career Awareness Day to promote the profession to students interested in health-related careers.

The one-day event will take place onFriday, October 29, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., starting in the Jonas Board Room, followed by a tour of the Campus’s Downtown Brooklyn Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic. The event is free and open to the public.

The Campus’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is collaborating with the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NSSLHA) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in promoting this event. The NSSLHA chapter of the Brooklyn Campus has invited local high school students, community college students and undergraduates with undecided majors to attend the day’s activities.

Participants will attend an introductory seminar, tour the clinic, participate in a hearing screening and learn about the requirements of the profession, academic study and financial aid options. Each participant will receive a complimentary subscription to “NYSSLHA News & Notes” and a NSSLHA CD case.

Speech-language pathologists are the professionals who identify, assess and treat speech and language problems, including swallowing disorders, problems of fluency and articulation, and issues of learning and literacy.

Audiologists specialize in preventing, identifying and assessing hearing disorders, as well as providing audiologic treatment such as hearing aids and other assistive listening devices.

ASHA is the national professional, scientific and credentialing association for more than 114,000 specialists in the field.

For more information, call Bridget Dwyer at (718) 488-3481.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 31,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including more than 12,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.