Lee Tecoulesco, Cynthia Boo, and former lab members Manya Jyotishi, PhD, and Jenna Lame all presented at this years International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) conference held July 15-23, 2021. Bravo!

Screenshot of the Generics symposium Q & A.

Grad Lab members met at Letty’s house this past week to celebrate the end of the semester..in person!! Everyone in attendance was fully vaccinated.

Lab member Olivia Arciero, has been awarded an IBACS undergraduate summer research grant. Congratulations!

Another year of having our virtual undergraduate lab party! Congrats to all the seniors- Alexandra, Gabby, and Kat!

Exciting news for Vivi for selected as a winner for the prestigious Isabelle Y. Liberman award. Congratulations! More information about the award can be found here.

Congratulations Vivi on getting two papers accepted!

Tecoulesco, Skoe, & Naigles (in press). Phonetic discrimination mediates the relationship between auditory brainstem neural stability and syntactic performance. Brain and Language.

Tecoulesco, Fein, & Naigles (in press). What categorical induction variability reveals about typical and atypical development. Journal of Child Language. 

 

Unprecedented times call for unique circumstances and despite not being together for the annual end-of-year lab party, our lab decided to celebrate virtually! We all shared yogurt covered pretzels and Letty read the ritual reading. Congratulations to the seniors- Tess, Megan, Jinman, Jenna, Anneliese, and Kourtney  for graduating!!

Tess will be getting a master’s in Speech Pathology to be a speech language pathologist, starting January 2021.

Megan plans on obtaining her MSW degree from UConn Hartford beginning in the fall.

Jinman will be enrolling in a graduate program at the University College London.

Jenna will be attending Teachers College at Columbia University for her masters in Communication Sciences and Disorders with a bilingual extension program.

Anneliese will be starting medical school at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine in the fall.

Kourtney is going to pursue a masters in education, specialty in special education teaching and secondary mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in the fall.

Kacie Wittke from the department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences presenting a paper at the 2019 American Speech Hearing Association (ASHA) conference, in collaboration with Letty and collogues from Texas Tech University.

Members of our lab talked to first and second year students about our research and the kind of work we do in the lab at the annual Research Connections event. We received tons of great questions and eagerness from students!

Vivi talking to a group of students interested in her work around auditory brain stem responses.

Members from the lab got together at Letty’s house for a night of good food and conversation. Also worth noting, Anneliese who wasn’t able to attend but still managed to make into the group photo!