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 […]

Meet Dr. Jennifer Gonzalez! Dr. Gonzalez earned both her degrees- Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) and Doctor of Philosophy in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at UConn.  Dr. Gonzalez is currently a Consultant in the Division of Audiology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, an Assistant Professor of Audiology, and is the Medical Director for Audiology Externship and Clinical […]

A recent publication that SLHS associate professors Erika Skoe and Adrián Garcia-Sierra collaborated on with Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, associate professor in the psychological sciences department, as well as researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and St. Lawrence University, was published in UConn today! This study investigated the relationship between noise and culture, looking at college students’ preferences studying […]

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 […]

Meet Dr. Anna Fowler! Dr. Fowler is a pediatric audiologist at the University of Miami Health System, where she works as part of an interdisciplinary team. She earned her B.A. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences from the University of Connecticut and her Au.D. from A.T. Still University of Health Sciences in Arizona. She completed […]

SLHS students finished up the Fall 2024 semester last Friday. Here’s some pictures from this semester of our impressive audiology and speech-language pathology cohorts! Hope everyone enjoys their well-deserved winter break!

November 29th, is Native American Heritage Day. This day was dedicated to encourage all Americans to learn about the culture, tradition, and history of Native Americans and their past, present, and future. The University of Connecticut’s Land Acknowledgment Statement, can be found here: https://diversity.uconn.edu/land-acknowledgement/.   To honor and spread awareness on this day, we would like […]

Meet Erin! Erin is a second-year speech-language pathology graduate student. This past Wednesday, November 13th, Erin presented at the Connecticut Science Center.  This event, “Accommodate. Access. Achieve” was held by Hear Here Hartford (HHH) and the American School for the Deaf. This event was geared towards D/deaf and hard of hearing students, college accessibility coordinators, […]

UConn’s Committee on Interprofessional Excellence in Healthcare (CIPEH) hosted its 10th annual Interprofessional Education Welcome Event for nearly 480 students on October 11, 2024. Students and faculty representatives from 3 campuses across 11 health profession programs: athletic training, audiology, clinical psychology, dental medicine, dietetics, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, social work, and speech-language pathology participated […]