Department News

  • UConn Pre-Masters in Speech-Language Pathology
    Click this link to learn more about our Pre-Masters in Speech-Language Pathology Program: https://speech-language-hearing.uconn.edu/graduate/masters/pre-masters-in-speech-language-pathology/
    Posted on February 14, 2025
  • Support the UConn NSSLHA HuskyThon Team 2025
    The UConn Chapter of the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA) is participating HuskyThon 2025. HuskyThon is an annual event to raise funds for the kids and families of Connecticut Children’s. To support UConn’s NSSLHA team, click the link in our below! The event date is March 8th 2025.  https://events.dancemarathon.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=70245  
    Posted on January 31, 2025
  • A community group for people who stutter
    A community group for people who stutter meets from 6-7 pm each Monday evening. This synchronous,remote event is facilitated by a licensed, certified, Speech-Language Pathologist. To  get more information and receive the WebEx link for these meetings please contact Jean.McCarthy@uconn.edu.
    Posted on January 28, 2025
  • 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 […]
    Posted on January 24, 2025
  • Associate Prof. Dr. Spaulding’s research featured in UConn Today
    Another one of our SLHS faculty members has had research featured in UConn Today! Associate professor Dr. Tammie Spaulding’s research investigates how adults with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) may be disproportionally represented in the criminal justice system. Dr. Spaulding completed this research study with Audra Blewitt, a UConn SLHS Alum and current Speech-language pathologist in […]
    Posted on January 22, 2025
  • 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 […]
    Posted on January 14, 2025
  • Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Jennifer Gonzalez
    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 […]
    Posted on January 9, 2025
  • Recent Publication Featured in UConn Today
    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 […]
    Posted on January 4, 2025
  • 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 […]
    Posted on December 29, 2024
  • Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Anna Fowler
    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 […]
    Posted on December 20, 2024