UConn’s AuD program has been partnered with the New Britain Human Resources Agency Head Start program for nearly 15 years to provide hearing screenings for children who are at-risk for having a hearing difference. Each year, UConn’s AuD faculty and second year students help train the first year AuD students to conduct the hearing screenings, […]

Meet Elena Smith, M.A., CCC-SLP! Elena is a UConn MA-SLP alumna, who owns her own private practice, Ivy Speech and Language, LLC in Stonington, CT. Elena was a kindergarten teacher before she decided to return to school to get her master’s degree in SLP. One of her coworkers mentioned that she should look into SLP […]

Lucinda Soares Gonzales CCC-SLP is an Associate Professor in the Speech Language and Hearing Sciences Department at UConn. Lucinda started out on her journey to become an SLP when she was a Junior in High School and her grandfather had a stroke. She got to witness speech therapy in practice on someone close to her […]

Dylan Kindle is a senior in the UConn Speech Language and Hearing Sciences undergraduate program. In search for observation hours to fulfill Dylan’s program requirements he stumbled upon the opportunity of a lifetime. Dylan participated in a travel abroad experience through a company called Therapy Abroad. After extensive research into the program and many conversations with […]

Jordyn Carroll, a speech-language pathologist, recently discussed with UConn’s NSSLHA chapter how she felt frustrated and unable to establish her voice in the area of speech pathology. She grew up in a diverse area and attended predominantly white institutions, but was accepted at Howard University, a historically black college. She discussed the barriers faced by […]

Unlock the full potential of your education with the SLHS Undergraduate Program (SLHS-UP), enriched by the offerings of NSSLHA! This society hosts a range of meetings designed to foster both academic and social growth. Just last night, NSSLHA presented an enlightening panel featuring SLP and AUD graduate students. The conversation spanned topics from undergraduate experiences […]

2023 Recipients of the Connecticut Speech and Hearing Foundation Scholarship Awards   Shayna Goldfeder – CSHA Foundation Scholarship   Arden Ricciardone – Geraldine Garrison Scholarship   Morgan Sauvageau – Kenneth T. Gist Promising Professional Scholarship   Victoria Zysk – Antonia B. Maxon Memorial Scholar/Clinician Scholarship     2023 Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences […]

On April 13th 2023, the Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences hosted a Speech, Language Pathology Alumni Panel. Two recent graduates of UConn’s SLP program came to speak to current graduate students about finishing school, studying for the Praxis, getting a job following graduation and what it is like to work as a clinician […]

The Connecticut State Department of Public Health’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (EHDI) was first authorized in 2000. Since then, many programs and guidelines have been established to identify children with hearing loss and provide intervention services as early as possible. According to their website, CT’s EHDI mission “is to ensure that all Connecticut-born […]