Join us for our weekly professional seminar, commemorating the lasting impact of the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center. Topics range all dimensions of communicative studies and disorders (Audiology, Hearing Science, Speech Science, Speech Pathology, Language Acquisition, etc.). Noon to 1 p.m., Fridays at the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center, 250 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA Presentations are in-person with some also simultaneously streamed on Zoom. (https://uiowa.zoom.us/j...

Title: "Morphological Development in Developmental Language Disorders" Speaker: Elizabeth Ancel, PhD Candidate, CCC-SLP, University of Minnesota In the process of developing language, children learn to use small units of meaning (morphemes) to construct words. Using morphemes to form grammatical utterances is an area of particular difficulty for children with developmental language disorder (DLD). In this talk, we will discuss different approaches to characterizing morphological development in...

Understanding Our Multiple Voices in 21st-Century Communication In recent decades, the human voice has undergone a massive revolution, from the crucial individual teachers voice in the classroom to the frontiers of technology. How we create, protect, understand,convey, and amplify our multiplicity of voices in learning and sharing ideas and discoveries continues to transform. Professors Fan and Hunter will explore how voice is a powerful communication tool with major impacts on classroom...

Ritwik Banerji is an experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, and improviser. He is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Iowa State University. His scholarship appears in Jazz and Culture, Anthropology in Action, Jazz Perspectives, The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, and Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, among other venues.

In a world full of noise, we often try listening to something: conversations with colleagues and family, music in our headphones, videos blasting from our smartphones. We hear all these things daily, but what does it mean to truly listen? In what sense do devices also listen to us? What is the role of silence in listening? How has listening changed over time? Can political tensions be solved through “listening”? How is listening both an art and a science? This Wide Lens event brings together...

Save the Date! Join us for a day of events to commemorate the lasting impact of the Wendell Johnson Speech & Hearing Center! More info to come.