The SLHS Department website has been redesigned and is live. Be sure to check it out! https://slhs.uconn.edu/ This year, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 2023 Conference will be in Boston, Massachusetts! It will be held at the Boston Convention Center, November 16th – November 18th. Please be sure to join us for an Alumni event […]
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2022/2023 Award Winners
2023 Recipients of the Connecticut Speech and Hearing Foundation Scholarship Awards Shayna Goldfeder – CSHA Foundation Scholarship Arden Ricciardone – Geraldine Garrison Scholarship Morgan Sauvageau – Kenneth T. Gist Promising Professional Scholarship Victoria Zysk – Antonia B. Maxon Memorial Scholar/Clinician Scholarship 2023 Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences […]
Canadian Governor-General’s Innovation Award
Dr. Richard Seewald (UCONN Ph.D. 1981) has contributed research findings in pediatric amplification for more than three decades. Dr. Seewald’s paper entitled “Selecting Amplification Characteristics for Young Hearing-Impaired Children” co-authored with his mentor and UCONN faculty member the late Dr. Mark Ross is a seminal work in the area of pediatric audiology and hearing loss […]
SLHS Alumni Speech Panel
On April 13th 2023, the Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences hosted a Speech, Language Pathology Alumni Panel. Two recent graduates of UConn’s SLP program came to speak to current graduate students about finishing school, studying for the Praxis, getting a job following graduation and what it is like to work as a clinician […]
Connecticut Department of Public Health Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI)
The Connecticut State Department of Public Health’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (EHDI) was first authorized in 2000. Since then, many programs and guidelines have been established to identify children with hearing loss and provide intervention services as early as possible. According to their website, CT’s EHDI mission “is to ensure that all Connecticut-born […]
Dr. Mozeiko’s Book
We are excited to share with you the news of a noteworthy achievement of one of our university’s department members. Dr. Jennifer Mozeiko, the Director of the Aphasia Rehab Lab at UConn and Associate Professor in our department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, has co-edited a new book titled “Caring for Loved ones with […]
SLHS Department Newsletter
We are thrilled to announce the revival of the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) newsletter! There has not been a newsletter for this department in many years (perhaps even before the department split from Communication Sciences in 2012), and we are excited to reconnect with our esteemed alumni and share the latest news! The […]