On Monday, April 23, 2017, the first year Au.D. students traveled to Someset, NJ to visit the Oticon Headquarters for their Hearing Aid Class.

Emily Thompson (class of ’15) was recently featured in Audiology Connections in conjunction with receiving an Audiology/Hearing Science Research Travel Award (ARTA) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Ms. Thompson is currently a second-year Au.D. student at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Congratulations, Emily!

 

Dr. Rachel M. Theodore, director of the SLaP Lab, has received a 3-year grant from the NIH NIDCD to examine phonetic category structure in individuals with and without specific language impairment (LI). LI is a common child learning disorder that can persist into adulthood and puts individuals at risk for other disabilities including learning disability, reading disability, and failure to thrive in academic environments. Her research will use fMRI neuroimaging and behavioral methods to compare phonetic category structure in individuals with and without LI with respect to (1) how phonetic category structure is represented in the brain and (2) how phonetic category structure is dynamically modified as a consequence of exposure to phonetic variation. These findings will result in improved specification of the etiology of LI, which can be used to develop more targeted rehabilitation protocols. The title of the grant is “Determinants of phonetic category structure in language impairment.”

Emma Hungaski has received a competitive SURF award from the UConn Office for Undergraduate Research. This award will provide a stipend for Emma to work in the SLaP Lab this coming summer under the direction of Dr. Rachel M. Theodore. Emma’s project is titled “Neural determinants of phonetic category structure in children.” Congratulations!

Congratulations to our SLHS undergraduates who participated in this year’s Frontiers in Undergraduate Research symposium (sponsored by the UConn Office for Undergraduate Research.