Graduate Student Scholarships

The Communication Disorders Foundation of Virginia (CDF) is pleased to offer the CDF Scholarship ($3,000) and the David H. Narburgh ScholarshipScholarship ($1,500) for the 2012-2013 academic year. 

These scholarships are designed to recognize students who have demonstrated out-standing clinical potential. These awards will be granted to current or rising master's degree students in Speech-Language Pathology or Audiology enrolled in one of the following universities in Virginia: Hampton University, James Madison University, Longwood University, Old Dominion University, Radford University, or the University of Virginia. 

For application requirements and additional information, please contact the program director at your school or Peggy Agee at ageepc@longwood.edu. 

The 2012-2013 Graduate Scholarship Packet is available here for download.


  Henry C. Hecker High School Scholarship

For the past twenty years CDF has been awarding an annual Henry Hecker Scholarship to a graduating high school senior with a hearing loss continuing his or her education. Funds for this scholarship have been depleted and the CDF Board voted at its fall meeting to redirect any future contributions in Henry’s name to the existing competitive scholarship funds for SLP and Audiology graduate students, who may well include former high school students with hearing loss. The Board is happy to have been able to contribute to the continuing education of many outstanding high school students over the years. We would like to thank Marie Ireland for her help in recent years in expediting dissemination of information about this scholarship, and all the professional members of SHAV who have given such strong support to the applicants in the application process.

Congratulations to our 2011-2012
 Scholarship recipients!

2011 - 2012 CDF Scholarship

Congratulations to these young woman whose applications demonstrated exemplary academic and clinical skills in speech-language pathology.

Elizabeth Schottinger
University of Virginia

Liza will be a second-year graduate student attending the University of Virginia in the Fall. She graduated from UVa. in 2006 and before returning to graduate school, she worked in the Craniofacial Centre at Children's Hospital Boston. Here, she was exposed to a variety of patients with communication disorders. She hopes to work with either children or adults in a medical setting.

2011 - 2012 David H. Narburgh Scholarship

Nicole Maria Gabriel
James Madison University

Nicole will be a first-year graduate student attending James Madison University in the Fall. During her undergraduate career at UVA, she worked as a paraprofessional for five children with autism. She participated in two undergraduate research projects for the Communication Disorders department during a summer study abroad program. Nicole hopes to someday run a practice that provides early intervention therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

2011-2012 Henry C. Hecker

High School Scholarship

Nathan Bullock
Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind

Nathan Bullock is a graduate of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind.  He is from Chester, Virginia. He will attend Liberty University where he will study history and computer science.