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Nick Philpott notes his experience growing up with siblings on the autism spectrum as the catalyst for pursuing an M.S. in speech-language pathology.

������Ƶ: Your family members inspired you?

Yes. My siblings are both on the autism spectrum and had speech pathology from a young age, so I was exposed to it during childhood. Later on, I was working in a school as a registered behavior technician, which involved being in a one-on-one environment with autistic children and young adults. There, I experienced the amazing work that speech-language pathologists do and knew for sure that I wanted to pursue a career in the field. I try to bring my passion for communication and my background in the arts to the interactions I have with my clients, patients, and students.

������Ƶ: What made ������Ƶ special to you?

I love the approach to speech therapy, in that we interact with patients very early on. ������Ƶ has a great reputation in the field, and I lived locally, so it was an honor to apply and be accepted. My favorite memory is getting to meet the rest of my cohort in person during comprehensive exams. After an entire year working remotely, it was awesome to make an in-person connection with those in the program.

������Ƶ: Any special awards?

I was lucky to receive the Jennifer Silverstein Memorial Scholarship, which supports students pursuing degrees in speech-language pathology. I also presented my work at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Student Expo recently, where I received the Most Outstanding Graduate Project award. My research was called “Social and Behavioral Relationship Quality Among Adolescent and Adult Siblings with Autism: A Systematic Review.” It’s on the relationship quality between siblings with and without autism; the research is extremely close to my heart.

������Ƶ: What are your future plans?

My next internship is at the Manhattan Veteran’s Administration hospital. I’m intrigued by the medical aspect of speech pathology and am hoping to explore that more during my time with patients at the hospital. I’ll be working with medical issues like swallowing disorders, voice box removal, and other conditions in which a person’s speech is challenged and therapy is needed. I am currently working for the New York City Department of Education at Erasmus High School and love the students there, so I would be happy to remain in the Department of Education as well. The kids are engaged and sharp; speech sessions with them are really enjoyable.

������Ƶ: Any advice for incoming students?

Get a planner! I did not use a planner as an undergraduate but became someone who swore by one during graduate school. It has helped me stay organized and deal with the workload. There’s a lot to do and it’s very condensed, so time management is so important. I would also recommend taking advantage of campus resources as much as possible. Shifting to online learning made me realize how helpful it is to have a beautiful campus.

������Ƶ: Outside interests?

I write comics, meditate, and play video games. Right now, I’m creating a four-issue comic series that is sort of a western hillbilly Harry Potter. It’s a story of conflicting families, similar to the Hatfields and McCoys, but if they had magic. Otherwise, my wife and I spend a lot of time hanging out with our dog, Ruby.

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As they prepare for the next stages of their lives, members of the ������Ƶ Class of 2019 share their thoughts on some of the most pertinent issues facing the world today. For more on this year’s commencement, visit our , , and . Use the #������ƵGrad2019 hashtag to join the conversation.

Desmond L. Rivera is graduating with a master’s degree in speech-language pathology. He currently lives in the Bronx but decided to make the trek out to Brooklyn for his graduate degree after hearing many great things about the program and comparing the tuition to that at other institutions.

“I have a passion for helping others and giving back to society in any way that I can, and I feel that I have achieved that through my participation in various aspects of ������Ƶ,” he says.

The future speech-language pathologist is an executive board member for the Graduate Speech and Hearing Organization at ������Ƶ, for which he assists in the planning, organization, and facilitation of events hosted by the department, and helps to ensure communication among the faculty and student body. Rivera is also a member of the National Student Speech-Language Association and works as a college assistant in the Division of Student Affairs.

Rivera has been a recipient of the New York City Department of Education Graduate Student scholarship and the Diana Rogovin Davidow Scholarship, which is awarded by the speech department to incoming graduate students.

“������Ƶ has sparked my civic engagement by showing me the great number of alumni from my department that have returned to speak, teach, and even donate to the department,” he says. “To me, this speaks of the love and respect that the students had for the program and makes me want to give back just as much. It motivates me to do amazing things in my field and be a representative of the students that come out of the master’s program in speech-language pathology at ������Ƶ.

“I have been so immensely happy with my decision to come here,” says Rivera. “I have met so many amazing people here who have truly made me feel like family and made my Brooklyn experience one that I will treasure forever.”

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Parkinson’s disease (PD) — made more widely-known to the public by actor Michael J. Fox, who revealed he had PD in 1998 — is a chronic and progressive movement disorder caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain that help control motor abilities. Although there is no cure, unchecked, PD’s symptoms — tremors of the hand, limbs, jaw and face; slowness of movement; stiffness of the limbs and trunk; impaired balance and coordination; and speech impairment — worsen more quickly over time. Nearly one million people are living with PD.

“Professor Gail Gurland, deputy chair and program director for graduate studies in our department introduced me to Diana, and we started talking about a program that caters to PD clients,” says Sharon Beaumont-Bowman, assistant professor in the Department of Speech Communications Arts and Sciences, who along with alumna Diana Rogovin Davidow ’66 ’71 M.S., worked to initiate LSVT at ������Ƶ in spring 2013.

Under the supervision of Beaumont-Bowman, the four-week therapy program is dually designed to support the communication skills of individuals with PD, while giving students majoring in speech-language pathology intensive one-on-one diagnostic and treatment training.

“The LSVT program gives those with PD a go-to place because we have created a solid foundation for them where they can feel comfortable and be themselves,” said Beaumont-Bowman. “We want them to have a vibrant attitude about life even though they’re living with this chronic disease.”

To this end, students also work with PD clients in social settings with specially designed singing, dancing, and other community-based classes offered through the  Brooklyn Parkinson Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of those with Parkinson’s through arts-based activities.

“We have formed a relationship with Brooklyn Parkinson Group and look forward to strengthening it so as to serve the community. This is very important,” says Beaumont-Bowman.

Of the LSVT program, graduate student Ashley Small ’13 M.S., has high praise. “Professor Beaumont-Bowman challenged me in appropriate ways and pushed me to learn more about myself and my clients,” said Small.

“I also enjoyed watching my fellow colleagues’ sessions. It was important to see how each colleague dealt with different issues, and to get their advice on those issues that arose in my sessions,” she said.

“I feel that I have a much better understanding of some of the unique challenges, both physical and emotional, that PD patients face on a daily basis, says Kevin Hodge ’13, another speech-language pathology graduate student in the program. “I know that I can apply that knowledge and understanding to all future clients.”

The benefits are not for the students alone. Those PD patients who participated in the program have reported that their self-esteem has increased tremendously and expressed satisfaction with the course of voice therapy.

One client revealed that his friends have made positive comments about his increased vocal volume and that acquaintances told him that they were unaware he was even able to speak until he began the LSVT program. With his increased feeling of confidence he is now interested in attending group therapy at ������Ƶ.

The Lee Silverman Voice Treatment program is named for a woman with PD whose family challenged speech-language pathologists and researchers to come up with a way to communicate with her. The challenge grew into a program that eventually became LSVT Global, a for-profit organization that trains speech-language pathologists world-wide in a research based, proprietary speech therapy approach.

Four speech-language pathology graduate students were certified in LSVT in Spring 2013, and with the continued financial support of Davidow — who in 2007 donated $1 million to what was formerly known as the ������Ƶ Speech and Hearing Center — and other contributors, Beaumont-Bowman hopes to offer the program to students this fall.

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So even though Jada Munroe’s piece is well received at the exhibit, the so-called master mixer of colors won’t be discussing her inspiration or the techniques behind her strokes, even when she’s bribed with a chocolate chip cookie or cajoled by her mother.

At the swanky opening reception in the — where the juice is flowing and the cookies are the kind with the big chunks of chocolate — the only quote six-year-old Munroe offers up to a reporter desperate to get the story is: “My favorite color is purple.”

Her work — a kaleidoscope of carefully blended colors and whirls that almost give the visual effect of a tornado — speaks for itself.

The same can be said for all 10 of the pieces in the newest exhibit at the library featuring work by the children in the School of Education‘s Early Childhood Center. The exhibit will be on display on the library’s first floor through the end of July.

The children had stopped by the library just to look around at the museum-quality art collection when Christopher LaRosa, a student majoring in speech-language pathology and a teacher at the center who also has four children attending, was reminded of a class project his wife had worked on.

“The kids all chose one of the pieces in the collection as their inspiration and took it from there,” he explains, noting that they worked on the project for nearly a month.

His daughter Safira, who is also six years old, is not quite as restrained as her good friend Munroe. Little LaRosa throws around the word “darling” about as often as she tosses her long wavy hair while explaining succinctly that she chose her inspiration painting, Everything and Nothing, a 2006 acrylic on masonite by Joseph Loguirato, “because it was interesting. Darling.”

Nine-year-old Gabriel Bennett was inspired by a dark, almost spooky piece of spindly-armed trees along a bank called River’s Edge, a 1998 woodcut by Jim Lee. Bennett, who is planning to be a soccer player and will “do art on the side,” said he borrowed some techniques from van Gogh, who he learned about in a previous art class.

“We all feel really happy because we wanted to show the public our work,” said Bennett, when asked what it’s like to have his masterpiece hang alongside those by top-class artists that the library has acquired over the years. “Now I think we’re famous.”

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Faring best on the 2013 lists, which are split into disciplines, is our clinical doctoral program in audiology, which placed 37th. The program is administered by the CUNY Graduate Center.

Experts in the field of audiology from the Department of Speech Communications Arts and Sciences serve as faculty for this doctoral program as well as a master’s program in speech-language pathology, which also made the 2013 list. Professor Gail Gurland, who oversees graduate programs for the department, says it’s no surprise and credits its graduates as the reason. “Look at the list of alumni from our program. It’s like a who’s who in the field,” she says.

Also making the top 100 is our master of fine arts program, which ranked 93rd.

“I would put our students up against anyone,” says Maria Ann Conelli, dean of the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts. “They do amazing work. They are extremely competent and creative artists. They are not looking to emulate someone else’s work. They are willing to experiment and explore. And they take advantage of the New York arts scene and all that it has to offer.”

The college’s graduate program in psychology was also included by U.S. News & World Report among the best in the country.

The rankings are based on the selectivity of the programs, quality assessments from other administrators and faculty members, and the success of each program’s graduates. They are widely cited in the mainstream press and used by prospective students as a tool to help chose a program.

In 2012, U.S. News & World Report included ������Ƶ in its lists of best colleges, ranking 17th among public regional universities in the northeast.

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