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Highlights from 2023 ASHA Convention
Many lab members attended the recent 2023 ASHA Convention to celebrate recent honors and present ongoing research.
The ASHA Convention offers an annual opportunity for researchers, educators, students, and clinicians to come together to share research, learn new methods and technologies for clinical care, and foster educational and professional connections.
Research assistant, Laura Doherty, and post-doctoral fellow, Juliana Ronderos, both received honors during the convention.
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Congratulations to our lab members who presented their work!
26th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
Marion Bensing, '24, recently presented at the 26th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on the relationship between musical beat processing and early language abilities in preschoolers. This work was completed through BU's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) during this past summer.
Marion is continuing this work through another UROP project this semester. Congratulations, Marion!
Congratulations to Our Thesis Students!
Congratulations to our graduating thesis students for successful presentation of their projects! MS-SLP students, Laura Doherty, Sylvia Gisler, and Mercy Valladares and undergraduate student, Therese Ancheta presented their thesis projects related to language, speech, reading, and movement in early childhood.
Laura Doherty: The Expressiveness of Mothers' Storybook Reading in Relation to Children's Emerging Language Abilities in Toddlerhood |
Sylvia Gisler: Examining the Relation Between Motor Skills and Emerging Language Development in Infancy |
Mercy Valladares: Parental Oral Reading Prosody During Shared Reading Experiences |
Therese Ancheta: Identifying Neural Correlates of Speech Prosody in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
CaNDL Students Present at the 25th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
Therese Ancheta, '23, (top left) and Sebastian Romani, '23, (top right) presented their research posters at the 25th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium sharing research they conducted over the summer with the lab through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).
Sebastian presented his research titled, Parent-Child Shared Reading Interactions in Toddlerhood in Relation to Socioeconomic and Language Status. This research explored the quality and quantity of parental language input during shared reading experiences. Therese's project, entitled, Identifying Neural Correlates of Speech Prosody in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, focused on behavioral and neural differences of speech in children with and without autism.
Congratulations to Sebastian and Therese on a summer full of research and wonderful presentations of their work!
Congratulations to the Classes of 2022!
A couple weeks ago, the Boston University community paused to celebrate the graduates of 2022. Congratulations to our lab members graduating from the MS-SLP program and undergraduate programs in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Linguistics!
We are excited to share in celebrating your accomplishments and are thankful to have been a small part of your journey at BU. We are immensely grateful for your contributions to our lab and wish you the best of luck on your next adventures!
Professor Jennifer Zuk Receives Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
It is truly a privilege and honor to receive the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. With this award, we are thrilled to expand our research program to study verbal communication abilities among children with autism, thanks to the support of the Hartwell Foundation. Stay tuned for more on this coming soon!
Professor Jennifer Zuk Receives Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
Congratulations to our 1st Master’s thesis student!
Congratulations to Hannah Stetson on a wonderfully successful Master's thesis defense of her project, "Parent-child conversational interactions during shared book reading in toddlerhood in relation to child language status." This is the first thesis defense in our lab (!), and led Hannah to earn her Master's degree and embark on her profession in clinical speech-language pathology!
Highlights of Fall 2021
Dr. Jennifer Zuk’s ASHA Early Career Contributions in Research Award!
We are thrilled to announce that our lab director, Dr. Jennifer Zuk, has been awarded the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Early Career Contributions in Research Award! This award is granted annually to individuals who have made significant scientific contributions to the field within five years of earning a doctoral degree. Dr. Zuk's award will be formally presented at the 2021 ASHA Convention in Washington, D.C. this November.
Sargent College's announcement with more information can be found here.
Gratitude for our Visiting PhD Students from University of Houston
We have been fortunate to host two visiting PhD students from the University of Houston this past summer: Juliana Ronderos, rising 5th year student, dedicated her summer to brain-behavior analyses to investigate relationships between white matter brain structure and language/reading abilities among bilingual children using a large-scale NIH open source dataset. Michelle Hernandez, rising 2nd year student, spent her summer contributing to retrospective analysis of speech prosody among children with autism spectrum disorder in collaboration with Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg, Dr. John Gabrieli, and Dr. Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel.
We are filled with gratitude for the investment of their time and efforts, and we missing the vibrant energy and enthusiasm these two brought to our lab environment! Wishing them both the best of luck with their return to Houston, and looking forward to their next visit to Boston as we continue to collaborate in the meantime.