New England’s premier program for impactful research and education in speech, language, and hearing sciences as well as clinical practice in audiology and speech-language pathology.
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Undergraduate Program
Our undergraduate major readies students for a wide range of careers and graduate study.
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Research
Housed within a nationally-ranked R1 university, our department is the home for cutting-edge research in our fields.
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Graduate Programs
Our graduate programs emphasize hands-on learning in clinical and research settings.

Pre-Masters in Speech Language Pathology
Our online, asynchronous pre-masters program offers required coursework typically needed for admission to graduate school for Speech Language Pathology.
Speech and Hearing Clinic
The UConn Speech and Hearing Clinic delivers compassionate, state-of-the-art, evidence-based clinical care in speech-language pathology and audiology. Based at the Storrs campus, we serve clients from UConn and surrounding communities.
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- Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Kayla HartMeet Dr. Kayla Hart, an alumna of the UConn SLHS Doctorate of Audiology program! Kayla completed her undergraduate degree at Eastern Connecticut State University, majoring in Health Sciences. She worked as a pharmacy tech at this time and knew she wanted to work in healthcare, but wasn’t sure what specialty she was interested in. As […]Posted on June 18, 2025
- SLHS and HDFS Faculty Awarded CLAS Teaching Enhancement GrantCongratulations to Torri Ann Woodruff-Gautherin of SLHS and Kim Gans of HDFS as the recipients of the CLAS Teaching Enhancement Grant! This grant is to support the development of a new innovative, integrative, team-taught course focused on community engagement, that will be cross-listed in HDFS and SLHS. The course will focus on community engagement as […]Posted on June 13, 2025
- Dr. Akshay Maggu Awarded Apple’s Investigator Support Grant!Congratulations to Dr. Akshay Maggu for being awarded Apple’s Investigator Support Grant! Through this grant, Dr Maggu will receive 60 Airpod Pro 2 from Apple to be used in his study: “Investigation of Central Auditory Processing Disorder in Older Adults with Hearing Loss.”Posted on May 15, 2025