Congratulations, Dr. Grela! Join us in congratulating Dr. Bernard Grela on his retirement! Dr. Grela worked in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences department at the University of Connecticut for 25 years. Dr. Grela was an Associate Professor and is a speech-language pathologist. His area of expertise includes language and literacy disorders in children, and […]
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Madison Formanek publishes honors thesis on DLD
Congratulations to Madison Formanek, a second-year Audiology graduate student, for her honors thesis being published this month. Along with Dr. Tammie Spaulding, Madison investigated task persistence in preschoolers with DLD, and is being featured on ASHAWebs’s social media! To read the complete study, click the link below: https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2024_LSHSS-23-00196
Fall 2024 Graduate Program Open House
Interested in learning more about our Speech-Language Pathology and/or Audiology graduate programs? Join us at 12pm on October 10th, either virtually or in person in the Human development building! Webex Links: SLP-https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m6f605e1b3fd9f53d1920f3272f685878 AuD: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/kmc02015
Alumni Spotlight: Maggie Phillips, CCC-SLP
Maggie Phillips graduated from UConn with her Bachelors degree and her Masters degree in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences. Maggie first became interested in Speech Pathology because of her mother’s career in special education. She took an introductory course in speech pathology and fell in love with it. After gaining her masters degree Maggie […]
Upcoming SLHS Events
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]