Dissertation and Prospectus Presentations

There are no dissertation defenses scheduled for the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at this time.

“Optimizing the Aging Network to Identify and Respond to Older Adults at Risk of Suicide”
Mary Chase Breedlove Mize
March 8, 1-3 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 844 9612 6870; password: 295533)

“School-Based Trauma-Informed Care: A Look at Urban School Psychologists’ Current Practices”
Moriah Kearney
April 2, 2-4 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 811 3235 5584; password: 659851)

“Development of the Posttraumatic Play Screening”
Galina Kadosh Tobin
April 23, 12-2 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 852 7096 9445; password: 054524)

“Pressure to Forgive: How Religious Pressure Affects Moving from Decisional to Emotional Forgiveness”
Elise Choe
April 26, 2-4 p.m., Zoom presentation

“Beyond Bandwidth: An Examination of Making Learning Accessible for All Students”
Christal Walker
May 3, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom presentation

“Exploring the Collision of Instructional Leadership and Destructive Leadership”
Amanda Merritt
Feb. 15, 2-4 p.m., WebEx presentation

“Principal Empowerment: Leader Perspectives in Rural Georgia Charter Systems”
Brock Robert Holley
March 22, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation (meeting ID: 120 938 5571; password: EsBf6nDp77M)

“Creating Digital Content for the Individual Learner: A Personalized Approach to Online Learning”
Genna Sengstacke McCurley
March 23, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation (meeting ID: 120 165 5385; password: GennasDefense)

“Leading Against the Grain: An Exploration of an Educational Leader’s Experience with Consent in the Sex Education Curriculum”
Jaray E. Mazique
March 25, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation

“Individual Mobility Across Clusters: The Impact of Ignoring Cross-Classified Data Structures in Discrete-Time Survival Analysis”
Christopher Cappelli
March 26, 12-2 p.m., WebEx presentation (meeting ID: 120 904 8099; password: jJ3aNMeSV42)

“Illusions of Opportunity? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Atlanta’s Opportunity Youth Initiative”
Alexander K. Camardelle
April 1, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 935 369 4898; password: 1391)

“Unlocking Cross-Divisional Sharing: A Multiple-Case Study of Vertical Collaboration in Independent Schools”
Wade Austin Hanse
April 1, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation (meeting ID: 120 739 9568; password: m28PCy4Q3Bc)

“A Principal as Literacy Leader: Promoting Literacy Outcomes for Third-Grade Students of Color”
Lisa D. Thompson
April 8, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Zoom presentation

“Beyond Access: Principals’ Behaviors Displayed in the Implementation of a District­-Wide Initiative Focused on Students with Disabilities”
Nicklaus Khan
April 29, 9-11 a.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 838 7695 8816; password: 787187)

“Perspectives in Leadership and Program Management of Preschool Directors”
Caroline L. Diaz
April 29, 3-5 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 894 3657 5339; password: e2Hp62)

“Investigating the Performance of (Multiple-Factor) Multiple-Group Methods for the Detection of Differential Item Functioning”
Theresa L. Dell-Ross
May 3, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation (meeting number: 120 598 9780; password: Q3gtfwwb3w3)

“Exploring Employees’ Perceptions of a Learning Organization and Their Learning Experiences in a Georgia State Government Agency”
Olufunmilayo (Funmi) Adesesan
May 4, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 828 5607 3335; password: 462268)

“Factors Influencing the Accuracy of Estimates in Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Models: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study”
Brandon K. Attell
May 14, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation

“Effects of Vitamin D Consumed and Sun Exposure on Perceived Muscle Soreness 48 Hours After Exercise in Active Postmenopausal Women”
Doris Joy Morris
April 2, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 825 0858 8225; password: 1DuKt4)

“Examining the Use of Spreadsheets in a High School Statistics Course as it Relates to Participant Knowledge and Attitudes”
Aaron A. Rafter
April 30, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., WebEx presentation

“(Re)claiming and (Re)framing: Exploring How Black West African Immigrant Girls Depict Their Understandings of Self-Identity and Representation Through Multimodal Literacy”
Maima Chea Simmons
March 10, 12-2 p.m., Zoom presentation

“Is Race a Criteria?: A Case Study on Algebra I Teachers’ Conceptualizations of Equity In Track Recommendations”
Pam Liu
March 22, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 998 8568 0970; password: Defense)

“Semiotics and Symbiosis – ‘Gap-Closing’: How Signs, Symbols and Structure Impact the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics for Middle School African American Students”
Elijah Porter, II
March 31, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom presentation

“Language, Culture and Identity: A Case Study of Korean American Transnational Adolescents”
Myoung Eun Pang
April 6, 1-3 p.m., Zoom presentation

“How Does the Use of a Social Studies Video Game Affect Student Learning?”
John Stevens Crumb, II
April 7, 1-3 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 965 4182 6921; password: 231511)

“Examining the Effect of the Think-Aloud Instructional Strategy on ELL Student Performance in Middle School Mathematics Classrooms”
Phani Duggirala
April 8, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 969 8345 9522; password: dissert)

“Sounds of Emergence: The Phonological Continuum, Phonics and Performing Arts in an Early Learning Program”
Benjamin R. Moore III
April 9, 8-10 a.m., Zoom presentation

“Navigating Chaos: An Art Teacher’s Experiences through A/r/tography … and a Pandemic”
Amy Noel Sery
May 4, 5-7 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 697 946 4957; password: Sery)

There are no prospectus presentations scheduled for the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at this time.

“Improving Reading Comprehension: An Investigation of Two Intervention Procedures and the Social Validity of the ‘Ask-Read-Tell’”
Quynh-Nhu Doan Wellons
Jan. 15, 1-3 p.m., Zoom presentation

“Merging Black Feminist Ecologies and Psychology: Black Women Resisting the Psychological Costs of Environmental Racism”
Shola Shodiya-Zeumault
March 29, 9-11 a.m., Zoom presentation

“The Development and Initial Validation of the Racial Allyship Characteristics Scale: Measuring Racial Allyship”
Cassandra Hinger
May 11, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 838 9805 5492; password: 809511)

“How White Racial Identity Changes in Time and Context for One Teacher (Educator)”
Melissa Claire Nicolatos Schellenberg
April 26, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 758 4001 1632; password: t9yjjM)

“Reading the Word and the World: Race and Racialized Experiences in Literacy Teacher Education Classrooms”
Carina Windom
May 20, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., WebEx presentation (meeting number: 120 958 7937; password: Education)

“Exploring a Model of Clinical Leadership Grounded in Radiography: Development Clinical Radiography Leaders”
Kerry O. Dunn
March 11, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing: An lntersectional Qualitative Study Examining the Lived Experiences of lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Queer Faculty and Administrators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities”
Jonathan Wesley
April 13, 2-4 p.m., WebEx presentation (meeting number: 120 458 7178; password: hcPGMyBR877)

“A History of the Report Card: The Evolution of a System of Communication and Control, 1835-1935”
Wade H. Morris, Jr.
April 26, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation (meeting number: 120 138 7079; password: hsF4TDRVT43)

“Black on Black School Discipline: Double Consciousness and the Perspective of Disciplining your Own”
Teruko Dobashi-Taylor
April 27, 1-3 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 875 9964 7229; password: 229195)

“Perspectives in Leadership and Program Management of Preschool Directors”
Caroline L. Diaz
April 29, 3-5 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 894 3657 5339; password: e2Hp62)

“Intersections: Black Female School Leaders’ Lived Experiences of Leading and Mothering Black Children”
Rolandria Justice-Emenuga
May 4, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 821 5546 8412; password: 434926)

“An Investigation of the Professional Socialization Phase and Grading in Secondary Physical Education”
Casey Hollibaugh
Jan. 22, 2-4 p.m., Zoom presentation

“An Urban School Employee Physical Activity Program and its Impact on Barriers, Motivation and Job-Related Stress”
Marcel Benetti de Lima
March 12, 9:30-11:30 a.m., WebEx presentation (meeting number: 120 317 3027; password: 39BMnnsgpb3)

“Health-Related Quality of Life and Physical Activity of Youth with Physical Disabilities”
Myung Ha Sur
May 14, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation (meeting number: 120 449 7783; password: wKRXgR93ZT3)

“Tales from the Digital Cutting Room Floor: Learning How to Design Instruction from Latinas and Black Women in Tech”
Renee D. Jordan
April 20, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 823 0959 5774; password: 355202)

“Multilingual Language Learners, Identities and a YPAR Collaborative: A Critical Ethnographic, Arts-Based, YPAR Study”
Amita Jyoti Hanagud Kaneria
Feb. 12, 1-3 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 872 6039 1903; password: 687008)

“Collaborating for Criticality: Action-Based Critical Literacy Writing Instruction for Secondary Black Students”
Brooks Salter
Feb. 15, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 990 1282 3995; password: 853829)

“Can You Hear Me Now? An Exploratory Case Study of Black Women Composers and Their Lived Experiences”
Brittney Elizabeth Boykin
Feb. 18, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 919 2748 0487; password: music)

“Together We Can: A Collaborative Community as a Means to Improve Instructional Practice”
Jillian Lee
March 8, 2-4 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 923 5894 4330; password: defense)

“Promoting CLD Student’s Reflectivity: Culturally Relevant Indigenous Mindfulness Pedagogy in an ESOL English Language Arts Classroom”
Zurisaray Espinosa
April 15, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom presentation

“The Experiences of African American Students Engaging in Culturally Relevant Cognitively Demanding Mathematical Tasks”
Audrea K. Bankston
April 19, 3-5 p.m., Zoom presentation

“Decolonial Connectivity: A Study Abroad Program in Mexico”
Beth Wendy Marks
April 19, 3-5 p.m., Zoom presentation

“Examining the Effect of a School-Based Creativity Program on Divergent Thinking and Academic Achievement in Middle School Students”
Lauren Elysse Garber Rowe
April 28, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom presentation

“Traces to Entrenchment: Using Reading and Writing to Facilitate Lexical Sequence Acquisition Among English Language and Learners”
Andrea Jane Lofgren
May 4, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 997 3191 5127; password: 064263)

“Self-Directed Learning: Historical and Theoretical Arguments for Learner Led Education”
Caleb Patton Collier
May 6, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom presentation (password: Zoomgsu30033)