An Indiana University associate professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences has received $467,071 from the National Science Foundation to further her research into the word retrieval processes of children.

La profesora Raquel Anderson de la Facultad de Foniatría y Audiología de la Universidad de Indiana (IU) espera que su programa STEPS algún día ofrezca el mismo acceso que disfrutan actualmente los niños monolingües anglohablantes a niños hispanohablantes con desórdenes de comunicación y a sus familias. El nuevo programa de Educación de Terapia del Habla, Práctica, y Servicios (STEPS, por sus siglas en inglés) para niños latinos y sus familias comienza este mes en el campus de IU Bloomington con $699,094 de la Oficina de Programas de Educación Especial, división del Departamento de Educación de EEUU. Según las proyecciones del Censo de EEUU y del Departamento de Educación del Estado de Indiana, la necesidad de identificar y servir mejor a los aprendices latinos del inglés con necesidades especiales en el estado aumentará en los próximos años.

Indiana University Speech and Hearing Sciences Professor Raquel Anderson hopes her newly funded STEPS program will one day help offer Spanish-speaking children with communication disorders and their families the same access to and quality of speech-language services currently available to their monolingual English-speaking peers.

Indiana University's Learnability Project recently received a $2.34 million, five-year renewal of its National Institutes of Health funding, to continue through 2014. More than 1,000 children from across the state and beyond have received free, one-of-a-kind speech therapy through the program since its initial NIH funding in 1985.

In 1979 Chancellor's Professor David Pisoni brought the first two postdoctoral researchers to Indiana University Bloomingrton when he was awarded a five-year training grant by the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders. Today, the same grant supports six postdoctoral researchers, six doctoral students and six medical students in Bloomington and Indianapolis.

With one in five people in the U.S. speaking a language other than English when at home, Tessa Bent's research into how children perceive so many different varieties of foreign-accented English has never been more timely. Recognizing the importance of understanding how children may or may not overcome foreign-accented speech variables, the National Institutes of Health has made Bent, an assistant professor in the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, one of the first IU faculty members to receive grant funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Students considering a career in health care can learn about more than careers as "doctor" and "nurse" at Indiana University Bloomington's Health Programs Fair on March 4 (Wednesday). The fair, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Indiana Memorial Union Alumni Hall, will feature more than 100 health care representatives on hand to meet with students and answer questions about educational and career opportunities.

U.S. News and World Report magazine has chosen three programs at Indiana University -- including its School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) -- as top 10 among their peers. Three others, including its School of Education and Kelley School of Business, are among the magazine's top 20.

Indiana University graduate programs in public and environmental affairs, education, clinical psychology, audiology, business, law and medicine received high rankings in the 2005 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools."