CSD in Belize: After Studying Abroad over Winter Break, Group Plans on Return Trip

13 Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty, staff and students travel to Belize to help country’s children

By Ryan Clark

CHS Communications Director

For many in the College of Health Sciences, breaks in the academic calendar — be they Spring, Winter, Fall or other holidays — seem to be utilized to help others, whenever possible.

Another example of this was found just before last semester, when 13 faculty, staff and students from the Communication Science and Disorders department traveled to Belize for just over a week to help the country’s children.

It all began before the COVID pandemic, when UK’s Study Abroad Office made a concerted effort to reach out to programs to make sure they had opportunities to study abroad.

“I started looking online at different programs that were available for students studying to be speech-language pathologists,” said Aimee Sayre, M.A., CCC-SLP and Academic Clinic Director for the department of Communication Science and Disorders. “I found a company called Therapy Abroad, that offered a number of opportunities throughout the world to gain real-world experience in the field of speech-language pathology.”