Lydia and FanTing attended the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association 58th Annual Convention to present their work. Lydia gave an oral presentation as part of the Student Initiated Research & Clinical Application (SIRCA) series entitled “Effects of Strategy-Based Cognitive Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment”. FanTing presented a poster entitled “Language Output in Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease”.

On October 7, the Alzheimer’s Association hosted a Walk to End Alzheimer’s here in Champaign (for more information about the Champaign walk click here or about the walks in general click here). Members of AANCL walked at the event to show our support for the cause! It was uplifting to see how many people care about ending this […]

As part of the Saffran Student Scholar Award that Lydia received, she attended and presented a poster at the 12th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA). Her poster was titled “Cognitive and Neural Alterations in Age-Associated Hearing Loss”.

Lydia, a PhD student in the lab, received the Saffran Student Scholar Award for the 12th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders at Temple University. The award will include: registration to the conference, lunch with Dr. Lana Shekim, attendance at a pre-conference dinner with the speakers, travel support […]

Shraddha, a PhD student in the lab, received an Audiology/Hearing Science Research Travel Award which includes complimentary registration to attend the 2017 ASHA Convention in Los Angeles, California in November 2017.For more information, please visit the SHS page here. 

FanTing, an undergraduate research assistant in the lab, received another award for her summer research. The Students Preparing for Academic-Research Careers (SPARC) award aims to garner student interest in pursuing a PhD and academic careers, particularly in communication sciences and disorders. For more information about the award and the work FanTing will complete over the […]

Andrew and Meghan, undergraduate research assistants in the lab, graduated from UIUC with degrees in Speech and Hearing Science! We are so proud of them and will miss having them in the lab. Good luck to you both on your future endeavors!

Congratulations to Lydia on her first first-author publication! The paper is titled “Theta and Alpha Alterations in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment in Semantic Go/NoGo Tasks”. AbstractGrowing evidence suggests that cognitive control processes are impaired in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI); however the nature of these alterations needs further examination. The current study examined differences in […]

Andrew, Stephany, Meghan, and FanTing made us proud by all presenting posters at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in April! They did a great job of explaining their work to the judges, students, faculty, and professors who attended the event. Congratulations to all of you! Andrew: Portable Listening Devices: Listening Habits, Hearing Health, and Cognition Stephany […]

FanTing, an undergraduate research assistant in the lab, received the Campus Honor Program’s Summer Research Award which will allow her to spend the summer researching a topic of her choice. FanTing will be exploring functional communication in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. At the end of the summer she will submit a research report of her […]