JMU CSD Undergraduate Advising

The temperatures are dropping and the leaves turning gold... Autumn is almost at our doorsteps! Before we welcome the new season, let's first give a warm welcome to Dr. Jaime Lee to the James Madison University CSD department! Her area of specialty is adult neurogenic communication disorders. Her clinical experience is specifically with individuals suffering from strokes and traumatic brain injuries.  Dr. Lee is proof that your first job after graduate school can pave the way for the rest of your career as it was during her Clinical Fellowship Year  that she began working with individuals with cognitive communication deficits. She found it immediately fascinating, challenging, and meaningful which lead her to continue on that same path!  After her Clinical Fellowship Year at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), she continued on as a staff clinician on the Stroke and Brain Injury units and eventually transitioned into a research position with the Center for A...

             With new students, new faculty, and a new Health and Behavioral Studies building, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is excited to kick off a new school year! The undergraduate peer advisors would like to introduce one of our newest faculty members, Dr. Geralyn Timler. At the undergraduate level, she is currently teaching CSD 300 Children’s Language and will be teaching a section of CSD 314 Phonological and Language Disorders in the spring. She is looking forward to the unique opportunity of collaborating with another child language researcher and professor, Dr. Pavelko, for CSD 314. She is also teaching Speech Sound Disorders for the Master’s program and is serving as the new director of JMU’s residential Speech-Language Pathology Master’s program. Her research is focused on social communication disorders and she is looking at how a self-report measure of children’s conversation skills could be used for documenting t...

Need help with your resume?  Want a chance to network with employers?  An awesome opportunity is coming up that YOU can take advantage of! Career & Academic Planning is hosting ResumePREP to help students develop their resume and offer a chance to network with participating employers. This program aims to create a relaxed environment for students to meet with employers for a personal 10 minute resume review. Refreshments will be provided! Date:    Tuesday, September 13 th Time:    12:00 - 3:00 pm Location:    Madison Union Ballroom (5 th  floor of Warren Hall, across from Madison Grill) Participating employers: Booz Allen Hamilton  CEB  Compare.com  DELOITTE  DISYS Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP  FANNIE MAE  Fed Bid, Inc.  Grant Thornton LLP JMU Human Resources  Kohl’s  Marriott International  NetApp  PSAV RSM  The Sherwi...

Welcome back, everyone!!!  CSD Peer Advising is UP AND RUNNING!! Katie Davies and Andi Sorber are the new peer advisors for the Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 semesters. As double dukes, they were just in your undergraduate shoes last year and are there to guide you through the major and answer ANY questions you may have! When asked about their positions as the next UG Advisors they replied: "I'm really excited to be able to help everyone who needs it, I am really knowledgeable about what they are going through and want to help in any way I can!" "There are no stupid questions! I mean chances are I was wondering the same things as an undergrad CSD student!" Their office hours and location can be found at the "PEER ADVISORS" tab at the top of the page AND are listed below: Mondays 1:30-3:00pm (Katie) HBS 1042 Thursdays 1:30-3:00pm (Andi) HBS 1042 Contact them via this email: csdug@jmu.edu and they will get back to you pr...

The graduate student advisors will not be advising undergraduates or hosting office hours during finals week. Undergraduate student advising by the graduate students will start up again in the fall. Good luck with finals and have a great summer!

With the end of the school year approaching, Dr. Reed, a speech language pathology professor, is planning to retire after 11 years of teaching at JMU and 45 years of teaching at the college level. Dr. Reed has made her mark on the JMU CSD department through years of teaching courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels; conducting research on children and adolescents with language impairments; and publishing multiple articles and books. Originally entering college to study music, Dr. Reed’s long and wonderful career in speech language pathology began due to an unexpected turn when she was struggling with some of her music classes. Needing to find a new major, she sought advice from an older student in her sorority who happened to be a speech language pathology major. Dr. Reed met with a professor to learn more about the major, and it turned out to be Laura Lee, a front-runner in the field of speech language pathology. She switched her major and has been dedicated t...

As our CSD seniors are getting ready to graduate and take their next big step in their lives, one of our CSD faculty members is preparing for a big change as well. Dr. Ryals is retiring after 27 years at JMU.             Dr. Ryals is an audiology professor and Editor-in-Chief of Ear and Hearing , the official journal of the American Auditory Society. Dr. Ryals has had a full career that started with an interest in communication during high school. When she started her undergraduate career at East Carolina University, she was originally interested in speech-language pathology, but after learning more about audiology, she decided to change her career path when she entered graduate school at the University of Tennessee. After receiving her Masters degree, she had a busy career working in private practices and ENT offices, owning a private practice of her own, earning her Ph.D. from UVA, working with both the infant and geriatric pop...