Friberg and Harbers - Cross-Curricular Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders: Leaving the Silos Behind - GAUISUS - Scholarship on Teaching and Learning at Illinois State University

Cross-Curricular Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders: Leaving the Silos Behind

Jennifer Friberg
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders • Illinois State University

Jennifer Friberg is an associate professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders and has served as a SoTL Scholar-Mentor working with the Cross Chair in SoTL at ISU for the last two years. Her recent SoTL projects have focused on cross-disciplinary learning and diagnostic decision making. Dr. Friberg is the co-author of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: Evidence-Based Education (Plural Publishing).

Heidi Harbers
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders • Illinois State University

Heidi Harbers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She teaches courses in phonetics, speech sound development and disorders, early intervention, language disorders, and multicultural issues. Her research interests include emergent and early literacy skills in children with and without communication disorders. She is the author of the text A phonetics workbook for students: Building a foundation for transcription. Current SoTL work centers around examining the phonological processing skills (phonological awareness and memory) of adult students before and after learning phonetic transcription skills.

This project describes student perceptions of learning following the completion of a cross-curricular end-of-semester project in communication sciences and disorders. Results indicated that students increased knowledge in several key areas, particularly in the integration of material from two separate graduate courses.

Keywords: Student perceptions of learning