SLAM Lab, University of Delaware

SLAM Lab, University of Delaware The SLAM Lab is part of the Communication Sciences and Disorders program in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware.

The Speech Language Acquisition & Multilingualism (SLAM) Lab at the University of Delaware is a brand-new research lab in the College of Health Sciences. Under the direction of Dr. Giovanna Morini, we study a variety of questions related to how and when children learn language. For more information on our research and lab team, check out our website at udel.edu/slamlab. Our research is made possib

le thanks to families who generously take the time to visit our lab & participate in studies. If you think you might be interested in participating with your child, either now or in the future, please contact us!

Happy SLAMmer spotlight! Today we are introducing Ben, an undergraduate research assistant in our lab.😊Ben is from Wilmi...
02/19/2025

Happy SLAMmer spotlight! Today we are introducing Ben, an undergraduate research assistant in our lab.😊

Ben is from Wilmington, DE and is a junior majoring in Psychology and Neuroscience.🧠 He started in our lab in Summer 2024, and in his free time he enjoys being in nature, running, and reading.🏃‍♂️📚 His favorite UDairy ice cream flavor is Cookie Dough Dynamite and his fun fact is that he plays club water polo here at UD! 🤽‍♂️

We appreciate your continuous hard work in the lab, Ben! 💙

Happy SLAMmer spotlight! Today we are introducing one of our SLM members, Maddy! 🌟Maddy graduated from UD with her BS in...
02/05/2025

Happy SLAMmer spotlight! Today we are introducing one of our SLM members, Maddy! 🌟

Maddy graduated from UD with her BS in Neuroscience with a minor in Sociology in Spring 2024, and currently pursuing her MS in Neuroscience in the PBS Department. 🧠🎓 She started with SLAM in Fall 2022 and her hometown is Wilmington, DE. In her free time, Maddy likes to play with her dogs, listen to podcasts, try new restaurants🍽️, and get coffee with friends.☕️ A fun fact about Maddy is that she is left handed, and her favorite UDairy ice cream flavor is All Nighter!🍨

Thank you for all of your hard work and contributions to the SLAM Lab, Maddy! 💙

Happy SLAMmer spotlight!Today we are featuring one of our undergraduate research assistants, Bing! Bing is a third year ...
12/05/2024

Happy SLAMmer spotlight!

Today we are featuring one of our undergraduate research assistants, Bing! Bing is a third year Psychology major 🧠 with minors in Neuroscience and Chinese. She is from Wilmington, DE and started with us in Winter 2024! In her free time, she enjoys playing video games 🎮, singing and playing the guitar 🎸, and going to the gym, and her favorite UDairy ice cream flavor is cookies and cream. 🍪 Thank you for all the hard work you put into our lab, Bing! 💙

Happy SLAMmer Spotlight!!We are excited to introduce one of our undergraduate research assistants, Brooklyn! 😄 Brooklyn ...
11/19/2024

Happy SLAMmer Spotlight!!

We are excited to introduce one of our undergraduate research assistants, Brooklyn! 😄 Brooklyn is a senior from Wilmington, DE who started with us in Summer 2024. She is majoring in Linguistics with a minor in Computer Science. 💻 In her free time, she likes to draw, read, and crochet 📚🧶 and her favorite UDairy ice cream flavor is vanilla. 🍨 Thank you for all of your hard work in our lab, Brooklyn! 💙

We want to welcome our new undergraduate research assistants who started at the lab this fall! We are so excited to work...
09/24/2024

We want to welcome our new undergraduate research assistants who started at the lab this fall! We are so excited to work with you all and have a great semester. Thanks for all of your hard work so far, keep it up! 🩵🗣️❤️

Welcome back Blue Hens and happy FDOC!
08/27/2024

Welcome back Blue Hens and happy FDOC!

Huge shout out to our amazing summer undergraduate research assistants that helped keep our research moving over the sum...
08/27/2024

Huge shout out to our amazing summer undergraduate research assistants that helped keep our research moving over the summer break! We are SO grateful for you, thank you for all of your hard work💙❤️💛

UD may have been on summer break these last couple months, but the SLAM lab has been working hard this summer📚📖 Congratu...
08/22/2024

UD may have been on summer break these last couple months, but the SLAM lab has been working hard this summer📚📖 Congratulations to SLAM Lab’s PI Dr. Giovanna Morini (Ph.D.) and Emily Frazer-Abel (Doctoral Student) on their recent publication in the APA Division 15 Policy Brief Series.

Special shout out to our wonderful collaborators, Michael Teixido (MD, ENT & Allergy of Delaware, Department of Otolaryngology, Thomas Jefferson University) and Dr. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff (Ph.D., School of Education, University of Delaware)!

To read the full brief, visit https://apadiv15.org/publications/moving-beyond-neonatal-hearing-screenings/ or follow the link in our bio.

A HUGE congratulations to Dr. Mackensie Blair🎉🎓Mackensie started working in the SLAM lab as an undergraduate research as...
06/24/2024

A HUGE congratulations to Dr. Mackensie Blair🎉🎓Mackensie started working in the SLAM lab as an undergraduate research assisstant and stayed at UD for a doctorate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She brilliantly defended her dissertation, “Examining the role of Language-Mixing on Word Learning and Word Recogntiion in School-Aged Children in the U.S. and Spain” and attended the hooding ceremony with Dr. Giovanna Morini (PI) last month. Congratulations Dr. Blair, we are so proud of you💙❤️

2024 end of the year SLAM lab party🎉 We had such a wonderful year and are so grateful for everyone in our lab!! We hope ...
06/18/2024

2024 end of the year SLAM lab party🎉 We had such a wonderful year and are so grateful for everyone in our lab!! We hope everyone has a great summer☀️

Our friends and colleagues at the Language Development Lab, University of Maryland are looking for Spanish-English bilin...
12/13/2023

Our friends and colleagues at the Language Development Lab, University of Maryland are looking for Spanish-English bilingual families with infants to participate in an exciting study. It can be completed fully remote! Please share with anyone you know who might qualify.

Nuestros amigos y colegas del Language Development Lab, University of Maryland están buscando familias bilingües que hablen español e inglés y que tengan bebés, para participar en un estudio de investigación. ¡Se puede completar de forma virtual! Por favor compartir con personas que puedan estar interesadas.

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The Speech Language Acquisition & Multilingualism (SLAM) Lab at the University of Delaware is a research lab in the College of Health Sciences. Under the direction of Dr. Giovanna Morini, we study a variety of questions related to how and when children learn language. We do studies with typically developing kids, monolingual and multilingual kids as well as children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Most of our studies only involve a single visit to the lab. Visits to the lab last generally last between 30-40 minutes, and you stay with your child at all times. We try to make the studies as fun as possible, and at the end your child receives a small gift for participating (i.e. a toy, t-shirt, book, etc.). While we are operate from 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, we do accommodate evening and weekend appointments. For more information on our research and lab team, check out our website. Our research is made possible thanks to families who generously take the time to visit our lab & participate in studies. If you think you might be interested in participating with your child, either now or in the future, please contact us! You can also join our research list by completing this quick survey!