The 2024 ASHA Convention took place from December 5-7 at the Seattle Convention Center, bringing together professionals in the fields of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology. This annual event featured over 2,500 sessions focused on the latest advancements in communication sciences and disorders. Among them current lab students, lab alumni, lab directors, and collaborators from […]

Dr. Lauren Cycyk, co-director of the EDLD Lab, was recently awarded a $1,999,995 grant from the US Department of Education. The aim of this grant is to build upon prior intervention adaptation work with Drs. Heather Moore and Stephanie De Anda to develop and pilot an app-assisted, caregiver-focused early language intervention for Spanish-speaking families

Drs. Stephanie De Anda and Lauren Cycyk traveled to Sydney, Australia this summer to present the EDLD Lab’s research on code-switching at the International Symposium on Bilingualism. We shared data from student research studies by Za’Nya Lyons and Alyssa Rodriguez that have examined code-switching among preschoolers exposed to Spanish at home and their parents during […]

Madeleine Griffin successfully defended her master’s thesis, titled Part C Procedural Safeguards – Assessing the Written Quality, Readability, and Availability to All Caregivers in Early Intervention! The committee was impressed with the significance of Madeleine’s study, the rigor of her methods, and the professionalism of her written thesis. Please join us in congratulating Madeleine for […]

Please join us in congratulating Anayaset Sandino for successfully passing her master’s thesis oral presentation on May 16th, 2023 titled Dual Language Factors and their Associations with Language and Literacy in School-Age Children! The committee was impressed with Anayaset’s presentation and for examining an understudied group of children within bilingual research. We are very proud […]

The EDLD Lab had a great time at the Spanish Safety Forum on May 2nd hosted by the city of Eugene to share resource information with the Latino/a community. EDLD students, Angela and Julisa, got to connect with and meet many families and share about the research the EDLD Lab conducts!  

The EDLD Lab would like to congratulate our undergraduate student, Za’Nya Lyons who was recently awarded UO’s Latinx Studies Experiential Learning Fellowship! This fellowship provides a paid opportunity to work on a supervised research project in any discipline related to Latinx Studies. Za’Nya is researching how preschool-aged children from Spanish-speaking homes code-switch between Spanish and […]

Congratulations to all of our EDLD Lab students who graduated this June from their respective communication disorders and sciences programs: Marlene Andrade and Kenneth Silva Millan with their bachelor’s degrees, Crystal Adame and Giselle Marquez with their master’s degrees, and Lidia Huerta with her doctoral degree! Dr. Lidia Huerta will start her faculty position at […]

The EDLD lab would like to congratulate our doctoral student, Sabreen NoorAli who has received the P.E.O international peace scholarship to support her studies for the upcoming year. This scholarship supports women to pursue graduate study in the U.S. or Canada, and will allow Sabreen to utilize her education to make a positive impact and […]