Previous Award Winners

Literature Reviews

1st Place: Gabriela Bowne, Maranda Hoyt & Erin Bernard: Children in the Digital Age: The Effects of Tablets and Mobile Screens on Child Development
2nd Place: Amy Weber & Samantha Shiflett: Does More Instructional Time Yield Significant Literacy Gains?
3rd Place: Laura Mueller & Meagan Jackson: Is Retention a Viable Intervention?

Research Proposals

1st Place: Christina "Nina" Beltran: Exploring School Library Design and Its Impact on Students' Social and Emotional Wellbeing: A Qualitative Study
2nd Place: Lauren Lancaster: The Impact of Elementary School Library Overdue Policies on Circulation and Collection
3rd Place: Danielle Kauffman: The Influence of Diverse Fiction on Students' Perceptions of Diverse Peoples

Complete Research Study

1st Place: Kathryn Ticknor: Caregiver Perspectives On the Use of Person-Centered Care in Speech-Language Pathology Services
2nd Place: Billy Holden Allen: This (Dis)Abled Person: Professional Receptiveness Towards Future SLPs with Disabilities
3rd Place: Morgan Epperson, Emma Jane Cowen & Shafiqa Sawyer: How Has the Impact of Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Palate Affected Language, Educational/Professional, and Social Relations in Adulthood?

Class Projects

1st Place: Charley Carroll: Meet Me in the Middle: Literacy Intervention to Close Achievement Gaps
2nd Place: Tamika Saunders & Whitney Johnson: Best Practices for Systematic Phonics Instruction: A Professional Development
3rd Place: Jasmin Childress: Phonemic Awareness Activities for K-2

Literature Review

1^st Place: Chanelle Williams: Investigation of Ariella's Educational Performance
2^nd Place: Jessica Mehorter: Best Practices of Phonological Awareness Assessments
3^rd Place: Sarah Belton & Abigail Jones: Audiological Care for Pediatric Oncologic Patients is (Ear)replaceable

Research Proposal

1^st Place: Molly Boehm: Could Challenging Behaviors Be Connected to Reading? The Relationship Between Reading Interventions and Challenging Behaviors in Classrooms
2^nd Place: Chelsea Moore: Educator Burnout: Teachers’ Understanding of Symptoms, Factors, and Coping Mechanisms
3^rd Place: Allison Hardy: What Are the Commonalities Among Veteran Elementary School Teachers?

Completed Research

1^st Place: Megan Washburn: Dismantling Institutional Racism in Education Through a Culturally Responsive Teaching Program: A Look at Implicit Bias
2^nd Place: Billy Holden Allen: Turning a Page for the Future: Language Supports and Shared-Readings
3^rd Place: Brittany Napier & Danielle Toone: Preschool Educators’ Ability to Support Young Children's Language Development During Play

Class Project

1^st Place: Madison Hommey: Dissemination of Physical Education Internship Experience
2^nd Place: Amanda Andersen & Alexis Lyles: SPED or ED?
3^rd Place: Amanda Andersen & Alexis Lyles: The Effects of Eating within Autism Spectrum Disorder

Research Proposal

1^st Place: Emily Covington: Graduate Students' Transcription of Accented Speech and How Acoustic Analysis Explains Transcription Errors
2^nd Place: Nam Nguyen, Renee Cotton, Daniel Crosby, & Aaron Belches: A Look into First-Generation LatinX Students and Success
3^rd Place: Ellen Winsor-Chaffin, Jacquelyn Fisher, Nicole Saks, & Micah Ward: A Grief Observed? Grief rituals and Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) During COVID-19 Grief Rituals and Prolonged Grief Disorder During COVID-19

Completed Research

1^st Place: Erin Wind: Insights into Access to Gender-Affirming Voice Services
2^nd Place: Nathan Miller: Cultural Appreciation Without Appropriation: Teaching Culture Through Choral Music
3^rd Place: Symone White & Connor Waldrop: Undergraduate Student's Explicit Bias of Stuttering

Research Poster

1^st Place: Kari Davis, Sarah Anderson, & Lindsey Cosner, Courtney Walton: The New Educational Experience: Teacher’s use of Language Supportive Strategies During Virtual Learning
2^nd Place: Emily McMillen, Karen Hues, & Nicole Poore: Instructional Design as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic
3^rd Place: Hannah Sacra, Amy Barnes, & Angela Menjivar: How Can We Keep Schools Open During a Global Pandemic? The Leadership Response to the Logistical Demands to Operate Schools

Research Presentation

1^st Place: Amanda Wright: Supporting the Middle Man: Teacher Preparation Reform for Middle-Level Educators
2^nd Place: Kurustun Musick & Amber Gordon: Special Education and COVID-19: The Importance of Readability Within Parental Guidance Documents Produced by State Departments of Education
3^rd Place: Michelle Stone, Raven Edmonds, & Essence Mitchell: Impact of COVID-19 on those with a Substance Use Disorder

Class Project Poster

1^st Place: Madison Schmitz & Darian Flammia: A Single-Case Study of A Student with Other Health Impairments
2^nd Place: Jessica Butler: Supporting Students with Dyslexia: School Librarians' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices

Class Project Presentation

1^st Place: Catherine Phelps: The Phonological Core Deficit: Exploring the Relationship between Phonological Processing and Dyslexia
2^nd Place: Emily Cooke: The Acoustical Properties of the Flute and its Comparison to the Human Vocal Tract
3^rd Place: Karley Wyatt: Listening While Reading and Audio Recordings: Does It Improve Fluency?

Poster Presentation

1^st Place: Crossley Wagner, Jennifer Putney, Cortney Sullivan, & Tim Worthen: Telepractice in Speech Language Pathology: Views of SLPs in Virginia
2^nd Place: Lexi Stenback, Kristin Wilcox, Dallas Phelps, & Hannah Milliken: The Effect of Bolus Size and Texture on Eating Comfort
3^rd Place: Lei Dunn: Starting Strides Moving Forward

Oral Presentation

1^st Place: Kaitlyn Long: Extra Extra: Teach All About It
2^nd Place: Hannah Millirons: How Scientists are Creating Speech from Neural Activity
3^rd Place: Beth Barnes: The Role of Breathing in Singing