Stories

OTD Faculty Represents TCU at 'Day at the Capitol'
TCU faculty member Crystal Smith joined 250 occupational therapy professionals at Texas Occupational Therapy Association’s Day at the Capitol to advocate for increased access to OT services. Representing TCU, she emphasized the importance of legislative support for the profession, highlighting efforts to improve healthcare access and licensure portability.

Camp Leaps Returns
Camp Leaps is a FREE language and literacy program for early elementary children (age 4 up to entering sixth-grade) with identified speech, language and/or reading delays. Camp Leaps is made possible through generous support from the Fort Worth Scottish Rite Foundation, in partnership with the TCU Davies School of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Individuals With Disabilities Given 'Chance to Dance' at Annual Celebration
The TCU chapter of the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA) hosted its 8th annual Chance to Dance event, a prom-like event for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

1997 Reunion: The One About Friendship
The speech-language pathology spring cohort of 1997 returned to TCU to celebrate their 25-year reunion. They created an unbreakable bond that’s carried on throughout the years. Here’s what they had to say about it.

TCU Nursing Alumna Assists in Historic, Cutting-Edge Surgery
They say it’s all in a day’s work. TCU alum and Cook Children’s Medical Center Sarah Patzke Shaabani, ’14, RN was one of 25 medical professionals who recently helped perform the delicate operation of separating conjoined twins, a first for the Fort Worth pediatric hospital.

TCU Nursing Takes the Lead on Opioid Overdose Education and Prevention in Fort Worth
The “Public Health School Nurse Workforce Initiative” course within TCU Nursing takes a service-learning approach where students learn skills from experienced Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD (EMSISD) mentor nurses and, in turn, the students provide a sought-after and meaningful skill-based experience to EMSISD nurses.

TCU-SMU Athletic Training Workshop Returns
TCU-SMU Athletic Training Workshop returns to the TCU campus this summer as an on-campus residential experience where students who are interested in learning what a career in athletic training is really like.

Athletic Training Students Prepare for Certification at Student Development Workshop
This January, students from the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences Department of Kinesiology’s athletic training program attended the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association’s (SWATA) 15th Annual Student Development Workshop in San Marcos, Texas.

1997 Reunion: The One With the Video
The speech-language pathology spring cohort of 1997 returned to TCU to celebrate their 25-year reunion. Before graduating, before email, and before social media existed, the cohort created a video. Here’s what they had to say about it.

Frogpreneur: Julissa Iracheta
Julissa Iracheta ’10 (MS ’12), CCC-SLP is a bilingual speech-language pathologist and owner of the private speech and occupational therapy clinic network, Talking Tadpoles.