Please join us in congratulating Julia Cerveira-Bianchi, RISHA’s 2024 Patricia M. Stephens Memorial Scholarship winner! This scholarship is awarded annually by the Rhode Island Speech-Language-Hearing Association to a graduate student earning a Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology.

Julia will be graduating with her Master’s Degree in May 2025. She hopes to secure a position in a local elementary school, following in Patricia Stephens’s footsteps. Julia also stated that she would like to continue her education by learning more about dyslexia, language disorders, and fluency–and even working toward a doctorate in Speech-Language Pathology!
Julia has volunteered her time and talent at Camp Unspoken Words, The Autism Project Summer Camp, and the Collaborative Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. She also volunteered to work with a professor at URI to study the efficacy of RoboKind’s Milo at teaching social communication skills to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Julia plans to use the scholarship award to support her continued volunteer and community activities and to assist herself in pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia Knowledge.
Congrats, Julia!