UofT SLP

🎉 Celebrating student excellence! 🎉

We’re thrilled to share that five of our Speech‑Language Pathology students have received prestigious awards through Speech‑Language & Audiology Canada (SAC), recognizing their leadership, research, advocacy, and academic achievements.

👏 Congratulations to Somayah Al‑Ees, Mahnoor Khurram, Sneha Patel, Anita Sritharan and Aaron Vincent!

From pediatric leadership and doctoral research to lived‑experience‑informed practice, our students are shaping the future of communication health.

🗞️ Read the full story and hear directly from our award recipients: https://slp.utoronto.ca/past-posts/celebrating-the-2025-26-sac-scholarship-recipients/

🎓✨ SLP Research Day is almost here! ✨🎓

On Tuesday, May 5, we’re excited to welcome students, faculty, clinicians, and community partners to SLP Clinical Research Day at the University of Toronto.

Come learn from our Year II SLP students as they present their capstone research covering diverse and timely topics in speech-language pathology.

🔑 The day wraps up with a Keynote Address:

“Access by Design: A System-Level Approach to Transforming Access to SLP Services”

featuring Brendan Whylie-Toal and Caterina Minaudo from KidsAbility.

🗓 May 5, 2026
📍 Medical Sciences Building, U of T
🕙 Presentations: 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
🎤 Keynote: 3:45 – 4:30 p.m.
🥂 Reception: 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

A full day of learning, inspiration, and connection—we can’t wait to see you there!

Grad students—your voice matters! 📢

Take the gradSERU survey and help improve programs, research opportunities, and campus life at U of T.

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🔹You could win one of seven $3,000 bursaries!

Survey closes May 5. Check your email to complete the survey now.

New on the SLP website! 💙

We’re celebrating major research achievements from Dr. Yana Yunusova’s Speech Production Lab, including a newly funded international study on bulbar and pseudobulbar symptoms in motor neuron diseases, and a prestigious fellowship awarded to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jennifer Soriano for her work advancing digital tools in ALS care.

Their work continues to push the field forward and strengthen support for people living with ALS.

Read more: https://slp.utoronto.ca/past-posts/advancing-als-care-recent-achievements-from-the-speech-production-lab-spl/