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 […]

October was a busy month for awareness in the speech, language, and hearing sciences field! Check out this infographic to learn more about Dyslexia, AAC, Audiology, and Stuttering! For more information, go to : https://www.asha.org/events/observances/

October is AAC month! Sean Stenglein, a 26 year old, with cerebral palsy communicates through the use of Tobii Dynavox’s I-16+ speech generating device with the Communicator 5 language system via eye gaze. Today, he presented at SLHS’s graduate level AAC course to 19 second year MA SLP students. Sean is an amazing advocate for […]

Attention all UConn Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences alumni! We are looking to reconnect with our SLHS Alumni and want to learn more about what you hope to gain from our SLHS alumni program. Please fill out the survey by clicking the link below: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=fqjxFyUqqk65351DkDSwgB6bckcQMolInMw31lDxod5UMzY5NTIxMk8xWFJWTlFBVDBMRTA0NVFIVC4u&origin=QRCode&fbclid=IwY2xjawGHn9ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUTq3FsDk_LUR3b47-MYwsvyvXmYRiqlLERPrRKxmuOdXEBUL2PDiP8TvA_aem_95wyUHrroxriihblrTwErg

Attention current SLHS Undergraduates: Interested in gaining mentorship experience? Enroll in our spring only course! Collaborative Learning & Academic Engagement : Our mentorship course connects first-year students with experienced mentors, faculty, and clinicians in the SLHS program. Mentees receive personalized guidance in academics, research, and community involvement, while mentors enhance leadership skills and build professional […]

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 […]

The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences is recruiting diverse and passionate scholars to join our program in the fall of 2025! To learn more information about our admission requirements, individualized coursework, and experienced research faculty, check out the link to our website below:   https://speech-language-hearing.uconn.edu/graduate/phd/  

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, […]

Congratulations, Dr. Grela! Join us in congratulating Dr. Bernard Grela on his retirement! Dr. Grela worked in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences department at the University of Connecticut for 25 years. Dr. Grela was an Associate Professor and is a speech-language pathologist. His area of expertise includes language and literacy disorders in children, and […]

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 […]