We are excited to announce Sing and Speak for Kids’ first ever team of interns from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill! Our intern leads for this team, Esil Empig and Anthony Cerniglia, are collaborating with other UNC undergraduates to work on future projects for Sing and Speak 4 Kids.
Esil and Anthony were both coordinators for our first ever Focus Group in March 2022, where they investigated the current and optimal use of our online music-based program. They are hoping to begin working on a second Focus Group and research projects that will help maximize Sing and Speak for Kids game use.
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Our 2023 Intern Goals include:
- Analyzing Sing and Speak for Kid’s compatibility with nonverbal children
- Ordering and scoring the difficulty of our current songs with symantics and articulation levels
- Game play analysis
- Implementing SS4Kids into the Chapel Hill community.
This is all with help from our new Sing and Speak 4 Kids Interns Andrea Chavez, Carrina Macaluso, Danielle Linboom, and Jianing Yang.
Meet Our Interns
Meet Carinna
When talking with our SS4Kids Interns about what they are most excited about the internship program, Carinna Macaluso, a vocal performance major with a speech and hearing sciences and biology minor, states that she is looking forward to being involved in an organization that combines her interests in music and speech-language pathology. She’s excited to work with peers to help create a fun and holistic learning environment to help children enhance their communication skills.
Meet Andrea
Andrea Chavez is a Linguistics major with a speech and hearing sciences minor and states she is most excited about engaging in research with SS4Kids. She is also looking forward to helping strengthen the connection between SS4Kids and the Hispanic community by providing translations.
Meet Jianing
Jianing is a music major and is anticipating working with others with music related projects. She is also excited to explore how we use music applications in our program.
Meet Danielle
Danielle, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill majoring in Linguistics with minors in Speech & Hearing Science and African Studies, is a former sign language interpreter and mom of six amazing kids. She is excited to use her personal and professional experience working with children to help families effectively utilize Sing and Speak 4 Kids.
We are looking forward to collaborating with our Sing and Speak 4 Kids UNC Chapel Hill Intern Team in 2023!
