2023 Nov. 2023 Meritorious Poster Award at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention.
2023 Oct. MPR News, Making grandfriends’: Mankato care model draws kids, seniors together. Dr. Chiou was interviewed for the MPR news.
2022 July. Garden EngAGEment and Dr. Chiou were featured on the MSU-Mankato College of Allied Health and Nursing Publication, Pulse.
2022 June. Garden EngAGEment took place at the School Sisters of Notre Dame this summer and were interviewed by KEYC. Dr. Chiou and Dr. Kristen Abbott-Anderson lead 45 undergrad and graduate students across 12 disciplines to create a dementia friendly program with the support of the Hope Grant awarded by the MSU-Mankato College of Allied Health and Nursing..
2022 June. Gaps in Framing and Naming: Commentary to “A View point on Accent Services”
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2022 May. Drs. Chiou and Betty Yu cohosted the Antiracism Learning Community meeting.
2022 May. Dr. Chiou and Archie Soelaeman moderated the 2022 May API Speaker Series Event, titled “Rooted in Lived Experiences: Black and Asian Considerations for Autistic Masking” (presented by V. Tisi and Asiatu Lawoyin)
2022 April. As convention chair of Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Dr. Chiou presented with her colleagues and her research students received MNSHA Excellence in Practitioner’s Choices poster presentation award.
2022 Feb & March. Undergrad students from Dr. Chiou’s Brain Injury Research Lab put together dementia friendly materials and shared their work with residents at the Pillars.
2022 Jan. Dr. Chiou and Dr. Kristen Abbott-Anderson presented “Garden EngAGEment: Innovative Interprofessional Collaboration for Individuals with Dementia and College Students” at the 2022 Hawaii International Conference in Education.
2021 Dec Dr, Chiou was re-elected as Co-president of the Asian Pacific Islander Speech-Language-Hearing Caucus.
2021 Nov . Dr. Chiou co-presented at the 2021 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention.
2021 Oct Dr. Chiou and Dr. Lei Sun were invited to present their caucus work at Case Western Reserve University NSSLHA.
2021 Aug.Dr. Chiou and her collaborators and students successfully completed 2021 Garden EngAGEment,
2021 July. Dr. Chiou and Vivian Tisi published two articles about linguistic advocacy and raciolinguistic oppression of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the field of speech-language-hearing field.
ASHA Leader Article here
Medium Article here
2021 July. Dr. Chiou and Dr. Kristen Abbot-Anderson’s podium presentation at the International Family Nursing Association 15th IFNC. This is an interdisciplinary collaboration project with School of Nursing, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Singing Hills Chorus and Mankato/North Mankato Act on Alzheimer’s Action Team. Title: Meaning making through a virtual choral program during COVID-19: Individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and their care partners share their experiences
2021 June. Garden EngAGEment on MPR and the Mankato Free Press
MPR News (click link to listen to the story)
2021 May. The Multicultural Constituency Group (MCCG) leaders brainstormed ways to increase MCCG visibility at ASHA this week. Currently there are seven MCCG groups including the Asian Indian Caucus (Prabhu Eswaran), Asian Pacific Islander Caucus (Drs. H Sheen Chiou & Lei Sun), Haitian Caucus (Dr. Martine Ellie), Hispanic Caucus (Sofia Carias), L’GASP-GLBTQ Caucus (Dr. Gregory Roberson), National Black Association of Speech-Language and Hearing (Dr. Kia Johnson), and Native American Caucus (Shi Burn). The leaders zoomed in from California, Arizona, Minnesota, Texas, Arkansas and even Saudi Arabia (!). We are stronger when we are together!
2021 March. MnCAN continues to collaborate internationally! The Edina virtual aphasia conversation group, facilitated by Sheen Chiou, was visited twice by 7 Taiwanese faculty members and students in special education and/or speech-language pathology from Taiwan. The goal was to learn about supported conversation for adults with aphasia using the life participation model in a telepractice platform. It’s worth noting the 13-hour time difference – the guests joined the group at 11pm and stayed on until way over midnight! Now that’s dedication to learning!
2021 January. Dr. Chiou’s leadership of Minnesota Taiwanese Women’s Association in the Overseas Community Affairs Council of Taiwan news.
2020 Dec. Dr. Chiou hosted the 2020 Dec API Speaker Series event, Does Accent Modification Do More Harm Than Good? at the API Speech-Language-Hearing Caucus. She and her colleagues invited Communication Sciences and Disorders professionals to re-consider accent modification from systemic racism and social justice perspectives. Dr. Betty Yu from San Francisco State University examined accent modification via critical discourse analysis and revealed asymmetrical burden, linguistic oppression, and power issues lying within accent modification services.
2020 Nov. Dr. Chiou and her colleagues from National NSSLHA, ASHA Multicultural Issues Board and Multicultural Constituency Groups were invited to co-facilitate “Raw Conversation: Be the Change You Want to See” where approximately 200 students from National NSSLHA were engaged in a dialogue about racial discrimination within Communication Sciences and Disorders education.
2020 Oct. Dr. Chiou was invited to speak at the 2020 Oregon Speech-Language-Hearing Association Fall Conference about her recent work on aphasia, dementia and cultural diversity.
2020 Summer. Dr. Chiou and her Asian Pacific Islander Speech-Language-Hearing Caucus leadership team and members created the API Antiracism Learning Community, API Bilingual Resources, API Graduate School Panel, API Mentorship Program, API Speaker Series, and API Social Hour events.
2020 June. Dr. Chiou and her colleagues serving as board members of Asian Pacific Islander Speech-Language-Hearing Caucus hosted a first virtual meeting with their members and celebrating 35 years of the caucus.
2020 May. Dr. Chiou was interviewed by Dr. Katie Strong from Central Michigan University to share innovative ways to apply metacognitive strategy instructions and goal attainment scaling in aphasia rehabilitation. https://aphasiaaccess.libsyn.com/
2020 March. Dr. Chiou and two colleagues received receiving the 2020 Minnesota State University, Mankato Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award
2019 November. As co-president of Asian Pacific Islander (API) Speech-language Pathology Caucus. Dr. Chiou and Dr. Lei Sun from California State University Long Beach hosted the API annual meeting with API members at 2019 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Orlando Florida.
2019 November. Dr. Abbott-Anderson (School of Nursing) and Dr. Chiou were invited to present their dementia-friendly work at the inaugural Aging Studies Faculty Lecture at MSU-Mankato .
2019 November. Dr. Chiou and her students are featured on the Free Press! A free concussion workshop was sponsored by Dr. Adam Steiner from Dept of Psychology, Dr. Chiou, Troy Hoehn from Mayo, Alyssa Rickels from Big Stone Therapies (our own!), and undergrad and grad students from Psychology and CSD. This workshop created hands-on activities to help Mankato area public school students understand the signs and effects of concussion. Many participants held a real human brain in their hands, learned about their brain waves (EEG), experienced what it is like to live with a traumatic brain injury and explored local and national brain injury resources. Special thanks to our fabulous grad and undergrad student volunteers – Molly McVey, Natalie Wrobleski, Madeline Johnson, and Jordan Anderson
2019 September. Dr. Chiou and Alissa Allison (Alumni 2017) are co-authors of a book, Primary Progress Aphasia and Other Frontotemporal Dementias. Dr. Rene Utianski from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester is the editor of the book. The book is designed to assist speech-language pathologists in diagnosis and treatment planning on patients with primary progressive aphasia.
2019 August. Dr. Chiou and her colleagues attended her graduate student’s thesis defense at National Kaohsiung Normal University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2019 August. Dr. Chiou presented her aphasia research at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.
2019 June-July. Very First Global Experiences Program! Nine international visitors from National Tsing Hua University and National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan attended the program. The Taiwanese visitors learned about speech-language pathology services in the U.S. This program brings students from Western and Asian cultures together. MSU-Mankato CSD students and Taiwanese visitors worked together to develop global multicultural understanding, understand professional scope of practice and service delivery in the US and Taiwan, and learn about international healthcare systems and professional issues in a multicultural/multilingual world.
2019 June. As president of Minnesota Taiwanese Women’s Association, Dr. Chiou is working with Dr. Yun-ting Hung (VP) from Metropolitan State University to serve Taiwanese community in Minnesota from 2019-2021. They hosted the first member meeting in June.
2019 April. Minnesota State Shark Tank. Dr. Chou and her colleagues presented the LEARN method for grand funding at Minnesota State Innovation Shark Tank.
2018 December. Dr. Chiou was invited to present “Life Participation Approach to Aphasia” by Taiwan Speech-Language-Hearing Association at National Taiwan University.
2018 May. Speech Pathology Master’s Program interviewed Dr. Chiou about her research in aphasia.
2018 May. Dr. Chiou and her colleagues from MnCAN and University of Minnesota were invited to present “Beyond impairment-based treatment: Life participation and supported conversation approaches to aphasia” at Twin Cities Speech-language Pathologists.
2018 Sabbatical. Dr. Chiou taught a grad-level course in adult language and cognition at National Kaohsiung Normal University and continued in her aphasia research in Taiwan. She was invited to present her research and clinical experiences in two universities, a VA hospital, and Chung Hwa Rotary Club in Taiwan.
2017 August. Dr. Chiou led the AH&N Diversity Committee to host the “It’s Time to Talk Forum on Race” workshop for College of Allied Health and Nursing faculty, staff and students to embrace our university’s mission on building a campus committed to diversity and facilitate racial equality talk .
2017 April. Dr. Chiou and her MSU-Mankato colleagues supported the first meet and greet of Singing Hills Chorus, a singing group designed for people with dementia and their care partners, by Mankato/North Mankato Act on Alzheimer’s Action Team.
2017 April. Co-chair of Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing annual convention and Clinical Sciences Building Open House.
