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Meet the HELD Research Team
Undergraduate Research Students


The Team
2024 - 2025
Our Research Center
The HELD Lab is dedicated to pursuing research on speech and language communication and auditory processing/hearing by connecting these ideas with culture and diversity. To do so, our HELD Research lab team is passionate about growing our knowledge in these areas in order to be able to teach the community ways to embrace their diversity and benefit the speech, language, and hearing community.

Dr. Alliete Alfano
Lab Director
Assistant Professor, FIU

Jannabel Ameen
Lab Coordinator
MS - SLP, FIU

Kaitlyn Saari
Graduate Research Assistant

Jessica Gomez
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU

Sarah Conway
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU

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