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Language and Brain Lab Spotlight

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 […]

CLAE Course Learns about Grad School Application Process

📢 This Week in CLAE (Collaborative Learning and Academic Engagement) Class! 🎓✨ This week, our students explored the process of obtaining and submitting observation hours, gaining valuable insights into the graduate school application process and clinical experiences. Here are some of their takeaways: ⭐ “I learned about how to submit guided observation hours, which is […]

Exploring Research During CLAE Class

Exploring Research at SLHS (UConn) During CLAE Class! (Collaborative Learning and Academic Engagement) Research opportunities at SLHS-UConn are opening doors for students, inspiring curiosity, and shaping future careers! Here is what students had to say after learning about different labs and research paths available in SLHS: “I learned a lot about research opportunities that I […]

HLAA News!

Eastern CT Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) News: Congratulations to the CT Chapter of HLAA for receiving the HLAA Phoenix Award, which recognizes resurgent chapters! Also, congratulations to Dr. Cienkowski for being re-elected as Vice President of the Eastern CT Chapter of HLAA for 2025-2026!

SLHS-UP Course Spring 2025

Kicking off the semester strong! On Wednesday, undergraduate students attended the first day of SLHS 3295: Special Topics—Collaborative Learning and Academic Engagement. The course focuses on understanding SLHS academic requirements, exploring departmental involvement opportunities, building mentoring skills, fostering connections within the department, and bridging academics with the community. Now in its second spring, the course is […]

HELLO Lab Winter Wonderland

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 […]

Aphasia Group Event

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 […]