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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Episode 6 of HELLO Lab Presents: How does screen time affect language development? youtu.be/CCTOS3yxyM8

Screen Time: Will It Hurt My Kid's Language Skills?

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Screens or real life? What's better for infant learning? Here's our take: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hsd...

How Do Babies Learn Best?

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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In Episode 4 of HELLO Lab Presents, we try to distill some of what we know (or think we know) about word learning for parents. youtu.be/jJCP69FkNWM

How Does My Baby Learn Words? (Early Words & Ideas - Part 2)

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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In Episode 4 of HELLO Lab Presents, we try to distill some of what we know (or think we know) about word learning for parents. youtu.be/jJCP69FkNWM

How Does My Baby Learn Words? (Early Words & Ideas - Part 2)

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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Know any parents excited/concerned about when their child will say their first words? This video brings to life the early communication milestones that lead to the first words. youtu.be/7Uv8kLz_Xq4

When Will My Kid Say Their First Word? (Early Words & Ideas - Part 1)

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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Know any parents excited/concerned about when their child will say their first words? This video brings to life the early communication milestones that lead to the first words. youtu.be/7Uv8kLz_Xq4

When Will My Kid Say Their First Word? (Early Words & Ideas - Part 1)

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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"Is learning multiple languages confusing my kid?" Check out the new YouTube video from HELLO Lab Presents. If you think our videos could be helpful for providing evidence-based info to the public, please like, subscribe, and share. This will help us make more. TY! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq-P...

HELLO Lab Presents | EP. 2 - Is Learning Multiple Languages Confusing My Kid?

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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Children growing up in bilingual households have... 1️⃣ larger vocabs than monolinguals 2️⃣ smaller vocabs than monolinguals 3️⃣ it's complicated 📊 Show results

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

HELLO Lab Presents | EP. 2 - Is Learning Multiple Languages Confusing My Kid?

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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I'm excited for our second episode to be released tomorrow. "Is Learning Multiple Languages Confusing My Kid?"

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 06/12/2025

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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...

HELLO Lab Presents | EP. 1 - Is 'Baby Talk' Bad?

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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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...

HELLO Lab Presents | EP. 1 - Is 'Baby Talk' Bad?

UConn Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences @uconn-slhs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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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!

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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.

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Martina Firefly @martina22.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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!

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UConn Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences @uconn-slhs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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!

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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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.

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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.

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UConn Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences @uconn-slhs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

⭐ 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...

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Alumni Spotlight: Emma Sked, MA, CF-SLP | Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Meet Emma Sked, MA, CF-SLP! Emma is an alumna of the UConn SLHS Undergraduate program, as well as the Master’s program in Speech-Language Pathology (Go Husk ...

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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UConn Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences @uconn-slhs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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

Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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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

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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 09/02/2025

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

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As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: time is everything. If you don’t stand up now—if you don’t protest, resist, disrupt, and refuse to comply—you may lose your country forever. Authoritarianism thrives on silence, hesitation, and fear. The longer people wait, the more entrenched the regime becomes, making resistance exponentially harder. Every moment of inaction is a moment the regime uses to tighten its grip. History has shown that those who act early have the best chance of reclaiming their freedom. The time to fight back is now.

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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.

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We are stronger than we think

Federal workers, faith leaders, unions and ordinary Americans are showing the power of collective defiance and how to make cruelty backfire.

Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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.

Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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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

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UConn Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences @uconn-slhs.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

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!

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UConn Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences @uconn-slhs.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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...

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Derek Houston @derekhouston.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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