{"id":19421,"date":"2017-01-20T09:08:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=19421"},"modified":"2017-01-20T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:08:32","slug":"communication-sciences-and-disorders-new-home-serves-bu-students-and-waco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2017\/01\/communication-sciences-and-disorders-new-home-serves-bu-students-and-waco\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Sciences and Disorders&#8217; new home serves BU students &#8212; and Waco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19422\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Baylor-CDS-building.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor Communication Sciences and Disorders new building\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Baylor-CDS-building.jpg 1642w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Baylor-CDS-building-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Baylor-CDS-building-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Baylor-CDS-building-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Baylor received <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2015\/08\/anonymous-gift-to-transform-baylor-communication-sciences-disorders-department\/\">an incredible\u00a0&#8212; and anonymous &#8212; $10 million gift<\/a> to transform the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/csd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders (CSD)<\/a>. Part of that gift allowed CSD to move into a new home, leaving\u00a0Neill Morris Hall for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/Baylor-University-61388081925\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=10154466891476926\">a newly renovated\u00a0Cashion Academic\u00a0Center<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; and what a beautiful new home it is!<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 18,000 square feet on the building\u2019s first floor now\u00a0provides space for\u00a0clinical work, while classroom and labs are on another floor. Faculty offices are located in the adjoining Hankamer Academic Building, making it easier for professors, staff members and students to collaborate. But what CSD students and professors seem most excited about is not how what state-of-the-art facility can do for them, but how it\u2019s helping them better serve the community &#8212; as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0hCihQ5Kep0\">professors, students, and the parents of local children explain in this video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0hCihQ5Kep0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CSD\u2019s new home gives students the space they need to help both children and adults who suffer from strokes, autism and speaking disorders of all kinds. And with more space than ever before, it allows for more faculty, more research opportunities, and a more robust graduate program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith my clients now, I can see that their faces and their excitement has changed since they\u2019ve come in,\u201d says Kacie Evans, a CSD graduate student. \u201cI can see that their faces are so exited to see a whole bunch of new things that they get to try out. And we\u2019re gonna get to work with them to expand their language or their articulation or anything that we\u2019re working on with them. They get to explore that in a bigger setting and a bigger place that they\u2019re even more excited to be at than when they were previously here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duke Nelson, whose young daughter receives help from CSD students, is one of those clients. \u201cIt feels great,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of sleepless nights and a lot of worry about, &#8216;Will she be able to grow up functioning as a regular adult? Will she be able to provide for herself? Will she be able to be happy as she grow up?&#8217; I never really realized how much language plays a role in our overall happiness and being able to function in the world. And frankly, having this resource in the community has been phenomenal. I don\u2019t know what we would have done without it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor CSD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Baylor received an incredible\u00a0&#8212; and anonymous &#8212; $10 million gift to transform the Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders (CSD). Part of that gift allowed CSD to move into a new home, leaving\u00a0Neill Morris Hall for a newly renovated\u00a0Cashion Academic\u00a0Center\u00a0&#8212; and what a beautiful new home it is! Approximately 18,000 square feet on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-research","category-vision","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}