Murray State University, Center for Communication Disorders

08/05/2025

Congratulations to Katie Bohannon on receiving the Sara Jean Parks Pendleton Scholarship with a $15,000 award! This scholarship is for female students in the state of KY who attend a full-time accredited program at a smaller university and intend to work in the medical profession in rural areas of KY.

Statement from Katie: "I want to express my gratitude to the Sara Jean Parks Pendleton Scholarship committee and the fund as a whole for providing opportunities for individuals to continue their education by alleviating financial burdens. It is an honor to be selected as one of the scholarship recipients for my final year of graduate school. I want to thank my program faculty for their unwavering support and encouragement. Without you, all this would not be possible. Thank you to my husband for always encouraging me to take the leap of faith. I am excited to see what this next year has in store!"

07/22/2025

07/15/2025

The 2025-2026 CSDCAS application cycle is now open for applications for the speech-language pathology graduate program at Murray State University! Applications will be accepted from today until February 15, 2026 with accepted applicants beginning their graduate programming in the fall of 2026. Please reach out with questions!

06/23/2025

CONGRATULATIONS to Lydia White on being selected for a clinical placement at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN! Clinical placements with St. Jude are highly sought after and extremely selective and competitive with an extensive application and interview process for candidates. We are so happy for Lydia! Go show everyone how amazing and well prepared our MSU SLP graduate students are! 💙💛

06/13/2025

📢 Calling all KSHA members 📢

We need your help to tell the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that speech-language pathology clinical fellows (CFs) should be recognized as licensed speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and eligible to bill Medicare Part B.
https://ashaa.quorum.us/campaign/medicarecf25/

06/13/2025

Our second year graduate students just finished their summer clinical practicum. Students planned and participated in programs targeting early intervention/prevention, literacy, and adult dysphagia/cognition.

Pictured are students from the literacy and adult dysphagia/cognitive groups.

Thanks to Taylor Family Dental for your donation of toothpaste for one of our programs!

06/12/2025

Our second year graduate students are showing their MSU pride this week and sending best wishes to the MSU baseball team in Omaha!l

06/11/2025

I spy some fabulous CDI majors!

06/05/2025

Our graduate students named the dress up day for this week of CDI 636 class as “dress as your type”! Our second year graduates are having fun!

05/29/2025

Our second year graduate students are making the most out of their summer classes - each week, they are choosing a dress-up theme for CDI 636 Cognitive-Linguistic Disorders and today was pajama day!