Meet the Graduate Assistants of the UConn SLHS Community Engagement Committee! The Community Engagement (CE) Committee is composed of 4 graduate students and 6 faculty members. Committee members run the department social media platforms to share SLHS news, student, faculty, and alumni achievements, department events, and more. CE members also create and develop platforms to […]

The UConn Chapter of the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA) is participating HuskyThon 2025. HuskyThon is an annual event to raise funds for the kids and families of Connecticut Children’s. To support UConn’s NSSLHA team, click the link in our below! The event date is March 8th 2025.  https://events.dancemarathon.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=70245  

A community group for people who stutter meets from 6-7 pm each Monday evening. This synchronous,remote event is facilitated by a licensed, certified, Speech-Language Pathologist. To  get more information and receive the WebEx link for these meetings please contact Jean.McCarthy@uconn.edu.

Another one of our SLHS faculty members has had research featured in UConn Today! Associate professor Dr. Tammie Spaulding’s research investigates how adults with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) may be disproportionally represented in the criminal justice system. Dr. Spaulding completed this research study with Audra Blewitt, a UConn SLHS Alum and current Speech-language pathologist in […]

Meet Dr. Jennifer Gonzalez! Dr. Gonzalez earned both her degrees- Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) and Doctor of Philosophy in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at UConn.  Dr. Gonzalez is currently a Consultant in the Division of Audiology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, an Assistant Professor of Audiology, and is the Medical Director for Audiology Externship and Clinical […]

A recent publication that SLHS associate professors Erika Skoe and Adrián Garcia-Sierra collaborated on with Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, associate professor in the psychological sciences department, as well as researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and St. Lawrence University, was published in UConn today! This study investigated the relationship between noise and culture, looking at college students’ preferences studying […]

SLHS students finished up the Fall 2024 semester last Friday. Here’s some pictures from this semester of our impressive audiology and speech-language pathology cohorts! Hope everyone enjoys their well-deserved winter break!

November 29th, is Native American Heritage Day. This day was dedicated to encourage all Americans to learn about the culture, tradition, and history of Native Americans and their past, present, and future. The University of Connecticut’s Land Acknowledgment Statement, can be found here: https://diversity.uconn.edu/land-acknowledgement/.   To honor and spread awareness on this day, we would like […]

Meet Erin! Erin is a second-year speech-language pathology graduate student. This past Wednesday, November 13th, Erin presented at the Connecticut Science Center.  This event, “Accommodate. Access. Achieve” was held by Hear Here Hartford (HHH) and the American School for the Deaf. This event was geared towards D/deaf and hard of hearing students, college accessibility coordinators, […]

UConn’s Committee on Interprofessional Excellence in Healthcare (CIPEH) hosted its 10th annual Interprofessional Education Welcome Event for nearly 480 students on October 11, 2024. Students and faculty representatives from 3 campuses across 11 health profession programs: athletic training, audiology, clinical psychology, dental medicine, dietetics, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, social work, and speech-language pathology participated […]