Student Organizations
Clinical Laboratory Sciences Club
The Northern Illinois University Clinical Laboratory Sciences Club (CLS Club) aims to familiarize students with clinical laboratory science and increase professionalism.
Communicative Disorders Organizations
Communicative Disorders Student Association (COMDSA) is a group for students interested in communication disorders and the professions of rehabilitation services, speech-language pathology and audiology.
Join COMDSA on Facebook.
Communicative Disorders Reform by Advocating Diversity (COMRAD) seeks to encourage students from diverse cultures and backgrounds to not only consider a possible career in Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology, and Rehabilitation Counseling, but to successfully complete the necessary academic program.
COMRAD contact: Sherrill Morris,morris Ph.D.
Pre-Physical Therapy Club
The goal of the Pre-Physical Therapy Club is to provide information to freshmen and sophomores preapring to apply to the professional program. It is an organization that answers questions students may have before applying into the physical program at NIU.
Contact: MJ Blaschak, Ph.D.
Student Academy of Audiology
The Student Academy of Audiology (SAA) is the national student organization of the American Academy of Audiology that serves as collective voice for students and advances the rights, interests, and welfare of students pursuing careers in audiology. The SAA introduces students to lifelong involvement in activities that promote and advance the profession of audiology, and provides services, information, education, representation and advocacy for the profession and the public we serve.
Join SAA on Facebook
Student Physical Therapy Association
This Student Physical Therapy Association is made up of students enrolled in the professional Physical Therapy Program at NIU. The money raised is used for the end of year banquet, travel to national and local professional meetings, and service projects, (i.e. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital).
Contact: Nancy Nuzzo, Ph.D.