{"id":2946,"date":"2017-08-03T11:10:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T15:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2017-08-03T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T15:10:26","slug":"student-spotlight-cassidy-cabral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/2017\/08\/03\/student-spotlight-cassidy-cabral\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Cassidy Cabral, B.S. \u201917 and M.S. \u201919"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cassidy<\/a>Cassidy Cabral of Bristol knew what major she wanted to pursue before she arrived at URI. She had shadowed professionals in different careers while a student at Mount Hope High School and discovered an affinity for speech-language pathology.<\/p>\n

At URI, Cabral pursued her bachelor\u2019s in communicative disorders<\/a> with a singular focus, earning a near-perfect GPA by the time she graduated in May. In September, the daughter of two URI graduates begins pursuing her master\u2019s degree in speech-language pathology.<\/p>\n

But even with a career path long mapped out, Cabral\u2019s experience at URI has brought unexpected discoveries. When Cabral was a junior, Assistant Professor of Communicative Disorders Michelle Flippin asked her to assist her on a project examining father-implemented social communication with a largely non-verbal child who has autism spectrum disorder. \u201cShe has become an expert using Noldus Observer software, (behavioral research software),\u201d Flippin said, noting that it is unusual for undergraduates in communicative disorders to conduct research.<\/p>\n

The study examined how the dad interacted with his young son, and Cabral reviewed tapes of their interactions, recording and coding data on language use and patterns. \u201cBy the end of the study, we saw the child had begun using more words,\u201d Cabral said.<\/p>\n

Last fall, she and Flippin presented a poster on their findings at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association<\/a>\u2019s national convention. \u201cAt the conference, it was really interesting to see the opportunities in the profession and all the research that is happening,\u201d Cabral said of the eye-opening experience.<\/p>\n

Flippin then asked Cabral to work on a project examining links between language, learning and movement in a kinesthetic classroom<\/a> setting at West Kingston Elementary School in spring 2017. \u201cShe used the Noldus Pocket Observer for that project \u2014 doing round-robin coding of the second-graders to record if they were on or off task and which piece of equipment they were on,\u201d Flippin explained. \u201cCassidy helped me finalize some of the codes for the off-task student behaviors, and she was a ringer at this \u2014 her mother is a second-grade teacher and Cassidy was very comfortable and skilled in observing the elementary students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI really enjoyed it; I like being in the classroom,\u201d Cabral said of the research.<\/p>\n

Cabral hopes to collaborate again with Flippin, digging deeper into research, which she finds surprisingly rewarding. \u201cWe have so many language samples to investigate,\u201d she said of data from that project. \u201cI might do my thesis on some aspect of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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