American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Scholarships

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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation gives scholarships to support graduate students who demonstrate academic achievement and promise. Lizzy Lydon and Shraddha Shende, PhD students in the AANCL lab, received the 2021 Graduate Student Scholarship. Congrats! 







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