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Nick Monto becomes IGERT Associate

monto_websiteCongratulations to Nick Monto, a Ph.D. student in the SLaP Lab, who has just been accepted as an IGERT Associate!  The Language Plasticity IGERT at UConn is an interdisciplinary training program funded by the NSF designed to foster research and graduate training across cognitive (linguistics, psychology, communication disorders) and biological (behavioral and molecular neuroscience and genetics) approaches to language research.

Emily Thompson receives SPARC award

SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURESCongratulations to Emily Thompson, who has just received a SPARC award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.  This is a mentored award that will provide Emily with an opportunity to foster her teaching and research skills under the direction of Dr. Theodore.  Emily is conducting her Honors research in the SLaP Lab, which examines perceptual learning in adults with dyslexia.  Well done, Emily!

Dr. Theodore is winner of Honors Core Course Competition

Dr. Theodore is a winner of the 2014 Honors Core Course Competition sponsored by the UConn Honors Program Office for Curriculum, Assessment, and Planning.  She will be developing a new offering for the Honors Core, a set of classes that aim to combine different perspectives and diverse problem-solving expertise to study important challenging themes and issues.  The title of her course is “Introduction to communication disorders:  Interdisciplinary perspectives from brain to behavior.”

Rebecca Sylvia and Heather McSherry finish Honors research

rebecca_adultheatherCongratulations to SLaP Lab undergraduates, Rebecca Sylvia and Heather McSherry, who have successfully completed their research requirements for the Honors program.  The title of Rebecca’s thesis is “Locus of phonological deficits in adults with dyslexia.”  The title of Heather’s thesis is “Effects of speaking rate and place of articulation on phonetic categorization in children.”  Dr. Theodore is so proud of both of you and looks forward to seeing all of your future accomplishments!

M.A. defense: Joslynn S. Noyes

noyes_websiteJoslynn Noyes successfully defended her M.A. thesis today!  The title of her thesis is “Effects of reading ability on perceptual flexibility in spoken language processing.”  Her project will be presented at the upcoming meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.  We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!