Winter Wonderland was a community event run by the HELLO Lab on 12/8/24. Families, children who are D/deaf, hard of hearing, and Deaf+, came together in Storrs, CT! The Human Development Center was converted into a Winter Wonderland complete with snowball fights, a hallway FULL of snowflakes, snow globe making, bingo, snowman building (with no-melt […]

Every year the aphasia language support and book groups celebrate the end of the fall semester. The goal is to encourage language practice with new people, to model effective communication skills for family members, and, of course, to have a good time. This year, five of our first-year graduate students took the party to a […]

Meet Dr. Anna Fowler! Dr. Fowler is a pediatric audiologist at the University of Miami Health System, where she works as part of an interdisciplinary team. She earned her B.A. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences from the University of Connecticut and her Au.D. from A.T. Still University of Health Sciences in Arizona. She completed […]

Attention all UConn Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences alumni! We are looking to reconnect with our SLHS Alumni and want to learn more about what you hope to gain from our SLHS alumni program. Please fill out the survey by clicking the link below: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=fqjxFyUqqk65351DkDSwgB6bckcQMolInMw31lDxod5UMzY5NTIxMk8xWFJWTlFBVDBMRTA0NVFIVC4u&origin=QRCode&fbclid=IwY2xjawGHn9ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUTq3FsDk_LUR3b47-MYwsvyvXmYRiqlLERPrRKxmuOdXEBUL2PDiP8TvA_aem_95wyUHrroxriihblrTwErg

Research Audiologist/Postdoctoral Fellow position at the University of Connecticut The Auditory Perception and Neuroscience Lab (PI: Akshay Maggu, Ph.D.) at the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Connecticut is seeking a research audiologist/postdoctoral fellow to join their team to work on projects investigating central auditory processing using behavioral, physiological, and […]

Congratulations to UConn SLHS PhD student, Louisa Suting, for receiving the ASHFoundation’s New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship! This scholarship is an honor given to select doctoral students who show exceptional potential for becoming future leaders in academic and research careers in communication sciences and disorders. This highly competitive award provides financial support to doctoral students, […]

Meet Nicole Gallagher, M.S., CCC-SLP, a Clinical Professor in the UConn Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) Department!  Nicole began her journey into the field of speech-language pathology (SLP) as an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She originally entered college with the plan to be a first grade teacher, focusing on […]

Congratulations to Dr. Maggu on receiving the Clinical Research and Innovation Seed Program (CRISP) funding award for his project on comparative investigation of treatment methods for helping school-aged children with listening difficulties. This project will involve school-aged children from local schools and is aimed at finding which treatment approach is best in addressing speech-in-noise perception […]

Students in Prof. Cienkowski’s Introduction to Aural Rehabilitation class recently explored concepts related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). They met with community stakeholders last week. Allegra Klein from the Eastern CT HLAA shared information on accommodations for hearing differences in CT. Howie Gallagher from Cosmic Service Dogs discussed how service dogs are selected […]