'Baby Talk' boosts language development! Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riD...

'Baby Talk' boosts language development! Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riD...

Does 'Baby Talk' mess with language learning? Find out what the science says in the debut episode of "HELLO Lab Presents" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riD...

Does 'Baby Talk' mess with language learning? Find out what the science says in the debut episode of "HELLO Lab Presents" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riD...

My lab's YouTube channel launches tomorrow. www.youtube.com/@TheHELLOLab/

Our graduate programs are continuously growing and improving & 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, & the SLP program rose 7 points to #32 out of 283 programs in the country!

Check out this fascinating study on the impact of sensory access on the types of words children learn.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

UMass Amherst Faculty Sen passed a Mutual Academic Def Compact resolution, calling on 250 Public and Land Grant inst to come to each others' aid with legal & fin support if the regime infringes on freedom of inquiry, speech, assn, univ governance. Dozens of U’s have or will consider similar. RESIST!

Petition for academic freedom and institutional autonomy and against Trump extortion. chng.it/wwwYxbCsRF

Now, what if faculty from every university pressured their leadership to follow Harvard in standing up to Tyranny? Collectively and preemptively. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Need to take pre-requisites for Graduate School? Enrollment is still available for our summer course, SLHS 2203: Anatomy and Physiology of Speech, Hearing, and Swallowing!

Check out our department's new partnership with the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence to provide literacy support for children living in safe homes.

Let’s be clear: If the government can arrest, detain, and disappear peaceful protestors, none of us are free. That’s not law and order. It’s fascism. And we should all be outraged that this is being done in our name.

Executive orders are not laws. They are memos that communicate to the administration what the president wants to see happen. They are orders to the president's cabinet. They are not orders to universities or businesses or people. The president does not have that authority. Comply with laws, not EOs.

⭐ Alumni Spotlight ⭐ Meet Emma Sked, MA, CF-SLP! Emma is an alumna of the UConn SLHS Undergraduate program, as well as the MA-SLP program. Emma is currently finishing up her clinical fellowship at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. speech-language-hearing.uconn.edu/2025/03/26/a...

Does anyone else suffer from WIRD (when2meet-induced rage disorder)? Can you recommend a therapy or medication I could try? Thanks.

Check out our Pre-Masters in Speech-Language Pathology program! Click the link below to learn more: speech-language-hearing.uconn.edu/graduate/mas...

NSF cannot survive these cuts and there will be more to come. This is 1st degree murder of U.S. science.

Petition against NIH cuts chng.it/TLwvfgYpxZ

The whole "$1 NIH dollar generates $2.50 in output" sells science wildly short. Scientific discovery and technological development is the foundation on which our entire society is built -- and that includes all the businesses that operate within it. The throughlines are shorter than you think: 1/n

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

We are stronger than we think, and they are weaker than they want us to believe. Collective action has worked in the past, and it will work again. And the good news is that it only takes about 3.5% of the population to be actively involved for collective action to be effective.

List of things that NIH indirects (F&A) pays for either completely or partially in support of research infrastructure (please add) - Start up funds for new faculty - Lab construction costs - PhD student stipend and tuition waivers - IRB/compliance - Grants administration - IT - HR - Purchasing

Dan Savage: "The next four years are gonna suck. But they’ll suck worse if we let the news cycle — and the man who dominates it — drain the joy from our lives. We need to pay attention and we need to stay in the fight. Because of course we do. 1/4

They will try and exhaust us and throw us into despair so that we lose our will to fight authoritarianism. Let's flip the script and find joy and strength and community in the fight for democracy. There are more of us than there are of them.

My #MENinSLP/SLT starter pack (not "my men", but rather "my starter pack") is building VERY slowly, but I just added @achoi-tucci.bsky.social 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES go.bsky.app/CGppBcH #MENinSpeech-LanguagePathology/Therapy

A publication that SLHS associate professors Erika Skoe and Adrián Garcia-Sierra collaborated on w/ Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, associate professor in the psychological sciences department & researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and St. Lawrence University, was published in UConn today!

Every year the aphasia language support and book groups celebrate the end of the fall semester. Click the link below to watch the video from this year's event! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyRn...

Jimmy Carter, the first President I remember, pushed for action on climate change nearly 50 years ago. If only... RIP, Mr. President.

Talking about developmental science with family during the holidays reminds me how undervalued dissemination is in the reward structure for academia.

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!

Some recent publications by members of the SLHS department!

Area Loser Declared Patient Zero In Loneliness Epidemic — theonion.com/area-loser-d...

Check out the UConn SLHS affiliated work that will be at the 2024 ASHA Convention!

Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵

I listened to NotebookLM turn a chapter of mine into a podcast, and I'm feeling very uncomfortable right now.

Deleted my Twitter account

Video from the 20th century on methodologies used in the Jusczyk Lab. Some people said they found it useful for language development courses so resharing on YouTube.

People doing survey research should be aware that dept chairs get WAY too many requests to forward surveys. Representative sampling has always been a concern but the proliferation of surveys must be making the problem much worse. I recommend alternative methods (e.g. focus groups) when possible.

It was a kick to talk about speech perception with Aiden & Emily, hosts of a LingQuery, a new podcast on language & communication out of UConn SLHS… enjoy all four episodes! open.spotify.com/show/53lJtC7...

A new podcast launched by UConn Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences students.

Check out the first article I've written in my new position as a science communication intern with the @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social! Really fascinating work, which I'm thankful to be able to write up and share!

I'm looking for a postdoc to assist with our new R01 on the psychometrics of individual differences in learning in infants from 6 to 18 months of age (Collaborating with Kim Cuevas at UConn). Come join the team! sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...