Save the Date!! Current SLHS students and alumni are invited to join us for our UConn SLHS Homecoming Tailgate & Football Game on October 4, 2025! 🏈 Stay tuned for RSVP details, coming soon! #UConnSLHS #HuskiesForever

Next up in our UConn SLHS Lab spotlight series is the Speech Perception and Language Development Lab!    The Speech Perception and Language Development Lab (SPLD; PI Dr. Garcia-Sierra) focuses on bilingual language processing, neural mechanisms of speech perception and production, and cross-linguistic influence—especially using ERP methods to study how bilinguals process phonetic and syntactic structures.  […]

On Wednesday, April 16th, undergraduate students from UConn SLHS laboratories presented at the Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition in Storrs, CT! Check out the following posters: Qualitative Analysis and Translation Process of Spanish and English Stakeholders’ Responses to an EHDI Module – Aaron Herrera Effort-Based Linguistic Retrieval Markers and Accuracy of Autistic Adult Eyewitnesses – […]

April is National Interprofessional Healthcare Month! On April 14, 2025, our second-year speech-language pathology students participated in an Interprofessional Education event with students and faculty from pharmacy and dietetics. During this event, students collaborated with one another to work through a complex case study involving a patient with Parkinson’s Disease. This event encouraged interprofessional collaboration […]

Share Your SLHS Experience – Quick Survey + Chance to Win a $25 Gift Card! We want to hear from you! Take the UConn SLHS Undergraduate Experience Survey (less than 10 mins) and help improve the SLHS program. Your responses are anonymous. You could win one of two $25 Amazon Gift Cards! Just provide your […]

Congratulations to the following students for receiving awards from the Connecticut Speech and Hearing Foundation (CSHF): Carolyn Elliott – Kenneth T. Gist Promising Professional Scholarship Aidan Laliberte – CSHA Foundation Scholarship Eliza Mulkern – Antonia B. Maxon Memorial Scholar/Clinician Scholarship You all make our department so proud!  

The Aural Rehabilitation (AR) lab is directed by Kathy Cienkowski, Ph.D. The AR lab studies how to improve communication outcomes for individuals with hearing loss across the lifespan through patient-centered care. Research focuses on engaging patients and families in their hearing healthcare decisions including enhancing access to communication, promoting shared decision-making, and empowering individuals to […]

Last week in Collaborative Learning and Academic Engagement (CLAE) class, students explored the UConn Speech and Hearing Clinic. See below to read reflections from the students:  “I found it really insightful to hear about the clinicians’ personal backgrounds and stories on how they got to where they are today.” “Looking at the audiology sound booths […]

Congratulations to Dr. Akshay Maggu! Dr. Maggu has been awarded the Investigator Research Grant by the American Academy of Audiology Foundation to develop remote screening solutions for auditory processing disorders. 

First up in our SLHS Lab Spotlight Series is the Language and Brain Lab!  The Language and Brain Lab (PI Dr. Emily Myers) is focused on how we perceive the speech signal in order to map it to meaning. That is, how do we take what we hear other people say and understand what it […]