Recent News
Lab Member Emma Townsend Presents at 2024 Research Symposium
Emma Townsend recently presented her thesis findings at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD) in Madison, WI. She developed a parent-implemented treatment - APLL Seed - and trained peers in her cohort to coach parents while working toward her degree!
APLL Lab Celebrates Recent Graduates
The APLL Lab is proud to recognize our members who graduated from the University of South Alabama in May: Emma Townsend, M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology, and Julia Bruffey, M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology.
APLL Lab Members Attend 2024 Autism Walk
On April 27th, APPL Lab members, Carson Khur and Abby Phillips, participated in the Mobile, AL Autism Walk hosted by Autism Support of Alabama alongside co-director, Victoria Henbest. At our resource table, we had fun interacting with families, engaging in coloring activities, and operating a switch-activated adapter bubble machine!
APLL Lab Celebrates Recent Graduates
The APLL Lab is proud to recognize our members who graduated from the University of South Alabama in December: Yingshan Huang, Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Gina Mejia, B.S. in Education.
Lab Member Emma Townsend's Victory in 3 Minute Thesis Competition
APLL Lab member, Emma Townsend, was one of four University of South Alabama students awarded during the campus-wide Three Minute Thesis competition this past October. She was awarded the $1,000 People's Choice Award after presenting her thesis, Parent Coaching: Educating Students to Create an Effective Early Intervention Team.
Lab members, Gina Mejia and Michele Dacy-Nichols, virtually presented at the 2023 ASHA conference. Check out their posters for more information!
Lynsey Phillips, speech-language pathologist and APLL Lab collaborator, along with one of her friends, Kasey Hodges, who uses AAC to communicate, featured on the local news station in Northwest Arkansas
Check out the news story here: https://www.nwahomepage.com/lifestyle/sponsored-content/how-the-childrens-therapy-t-e-a-m-is-changing-lives/?fbclid=IwAR0sLR2g_1ds2cng6FfsBl10kBsI25rHl5wvl1RuCbWrG0AiNPTqmvMWE8E&mibextid=uc01c0
Sean Stalley's Presentation at LSA
APLL lab member, Sean Stalley, presented his project, “A Tolerance Principle Approach to Artificial Grammar Learning,” at the 97th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
Sean received a Graduate Student Activities Enhancement Award for attending the conference.
The Informed SLP!
The Informed SLP is a research database that focuses on assisting SLPs to find research articles in a friendly, realistic, and efficient way!
Dr. Lori Foran, an alumna of the APLL lab has a publication on the Informed SLP and we are so excited to share!
Please check out the Informed SLP website The Informed SLP website as well as Dr. Lori Foran's publication !
