Melissa Sidor named Clinic Director of Youngerman Center
 Melissa Sidor |
An honors graduate holding bachelor’s and master’s degrees in speech pathology and audiology from SUNY Fredonia, Ms. Sidor has been a clinical supervisor at the Youngerman Center since 2005. She also managed the Youngerman Center Integrated Preschool—a nationally recognized program that brings together typical children and those with special needs. In that role, she provided supervision and instruction for graduate clinicians and taught Clinical Methods, an undergraduate course in Fredonia’s Speech Pathology and Audiology program.
Previously, Ms. Sidor was an adjunct faculty member and clinical supervisor at SUNY Fredonia. For the past five years, she has been working with Dr. Nancy Gee (Associate Professor, Psychology) to study the possible effect of interaction with dogs on language acquisition in children.
Earlier in her career, she was a speech language pathologist serving various schools, including the Silver Creek Montessori School, Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center, and several schools and facilities in New Jersey.
The Youngerman Center was founded by the late faculty member, Henry C. Youngerman, in the 1950s to serve the community and campus in assessing and providing therapy for speech, language, hearing, swallowing, voice, augmentative communication, and other communication disorders. The center also offers outreach programs for autism and aphasia support groups, conducts hearing screenings for all public schools in the vicinity, and works with musicians to protect them from hearing loss.
