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Alex (Bing) Marchbanks ’14, SLP ’18 Specializes in Infant Feeding and Swallowing in Niche Area of Speech-Language Pathology

When Alex (Bing) Marchbanks ’14, SLP ’18 91��ѡd from Pacific, she never could have imagined the niche area of speech-language pathology that her career would lead her to. Since 2021, she has been treating premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit with feeding and swallowing disorders.

Pacific's Amanda Stead Honored by Speech Language Association for Special Contributions in Higher Education

Communications Science and Disorders Professor Amanda Stead will be honored by the American Speech Language Hearing Association for her special contributions in higher education.

Transgender individual smiling on camera

Transgender Voice Program Gives Women Their Voice

In 91��ѡ's Transgender Voice Program, available through the Pacific Psychology & Comprehensive Health Clinics in Portland and Hillsboro, speech-language pathology students help transgender women learn to modulate their voices to sound more traditionally feminine. “I don’t have to pass, but I want to have the option,” said client Lana “Blue” Zeitler.

A Passion to Serve

Alex (Bing) Marchbanks '14, SLP '18 found her passion for speech-language pathology at Pacific. A scholarship funded by donors helped turn her dreams to reality as she completes her master's degree this spring.

Student smiling working with an Aphasia patient

Pacific Students Offer Creative Support for Aphasia Patients

“The No. 1 thing that is lost in aphasia is words,” said Annabelle Watts SLP ’17. “I really hope participants who come here realize there is this gigantic world of communication and that here are all these other ways to facilitate that and have fun and re-engage with life and with their partner.”