Congratulations to Dr. Akshay Maggu for being awarded Apple’s Investigator Support Grant! Through this grant, Dr Maggu will receive 60 Airpod Pro 2 from Apple to be used in his study: “Investigation of Central Auditory Processing Disorder in Older Adults with Hearing Loss.”

Meet Emily Tuohey, an alumna of the UConn MA-SLP program! Emily’s interest in speech pathology began when she was working as a preschool teacher and she saw a speech-language pathologist (SLP) working with her students. She then decided that she was interested in pursuing the profession! Emily completed her undergraduate degree at Elms College in […]

Congratulations to the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Classes of 2025! We are so proud of your accomplishments and what you will continue to do in your careers!

Next up in our UConn SLHS Lab spotlight series is the Speech Perception and Language Development Lab!    The Speech Perception and Language Development Lab (SPLD; PI Dr. Garcia-Sierra) focuses on bilingual language processing, neural mechanisms of speech perception and production, and cross-linguistic influence—especially using ERP methods to study how bilinguals process phonetic and syntactic structures.  […]

Saturday, April 26th, members of the SLHS department attended the Northeast CT Health and Wellness Fair. This free event was hosted by the UConn Committee of Interprofessional Excellence in Healthcare, featured information from 10 different UConn Health professions, the Northeast District of Health, and community partners. Speech-language pathology faculty and students provided information about pediatric […]

On Wednesday, April 16th, undergraduate students from UConn SLHS laboratories presented at the Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition in Storrs, CT! Check out the following posters: Qualitative Analysis and Translation Process of Spanish and English Stakeholders’ Responses to an EHDI Module – Aaron Herrera Effort-Based Linguistic Retrieval Markers and Accuracy of Autistic Adult Eyewitnesses – […]

Our graduate programs are continuously growing and improving and this is evidenced by the new rankings released from the U.S. World & News Report.  The Audiology program rose 5 points to #14 out of 74 programs in the country, and the SLP program rose 7 points to #32 out of 283 programs in the country! 

Meet Rebecca Kall, M.A., CCC-SLP! Rebecca is an alumna of the UConn Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Undergraduate Program. She attended George Washington University for her master’s in speech-language pathology.  Rebecca found the field of speech-language pathology when she shadowed a speech-language pathologist (SLP) during her high school career. During this shadowing, she saw a […]

April is National Interprofessional Healthcare Month! On April 14, 2025, our second-year speech-language pathology students participated in an Interprofessional Education event with students and faculty from pharmacy and dietetics. During this event, students collaborated with one another to work through a complex case study involving a patient with Parkinson’s Disease. This event encouraged interprofessional collaboration […]

Share Your SLHS Experience – Quick Survey + Chance to Win a $25 Gift Card! We want to hear from you! Take the UConn SLHS Undergraduate Experience Survey (less than 10 mins) and help improve the SLHS program. Your responses are anonymous. You could win one of two $25 Amazon Gift Cards! Just provide your […]