American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation

Awardee Spotlight

Susan Thibeault 2000 Graduate Student Scholarship and 2002 Research Grant for New Investigators recipient

Supporting innovation in communication sciences

Focus(ed) on Voice
Susan Thibeault entered doctoral study interested in the study of voice. But what about voice? She couldn't have told you then. Her aim was given focus—and her career a healthy jump start—when her mentor Diane Bless suggested she might look into the molecular genetics of voice, an area in which, at the time, few researchers were working.

Fast forward to the present. Thibeault is now director of the Voice and Swallowing Clinics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she oversees the work of 15 speech-language pathologists as well as a new generation of PhD students. Her excitement for her subject is undiminished since her own graduate years. Read more. 

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American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation awards $238,500 in student scholarships, research grants, and clinical achievement awards to 47 individuals during its annual Founders Breakfast on November 18, 2011, in San Diego, California.

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