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!

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Research Audiologist/Postdoctoral Fellow position at the University of Connecticut The Auditory Perception and Neuroscience Lab (PI: Akshay Maggu, Ph.D.) at the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Connecticut is seeking a research audiologist/postdoctoral fellow to join their team to work on projects investigating central auditory processing using behavioral, physiological, and […]

Congratulations to UConn SLHS PhD student, Louisa Suting, for receiving the ASHFoundation’s New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship! This scholarship is an honor given to select doctoral students who show exceptional potential for becoming future leaders in academic and research careers in communication sciences and disorders. This highly competitive award provides financial support to doctoral students, […]

Meet Nicole Gallagher, M.S., CCC-SLP, a Clinical Professor in the UConn Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) Department!  Nicole began her journey into the field of speech-language pathology (SLP) as an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She originally entered college with the plan to be a first grade teacher, focusing on […]

Congratulations to Dr. Maggu on receiving the Clinical Research and Innovation Seed Program (CRISP) funding award for his project on comparative investigation of treatment methods for helping school-aged children with listening difficulties. This project will involve school-aged children from local schools and is aimed at finding which treatment approach is best in addressing speech-in-noise perception […]