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Meet the HELD Research Team
Undergraduate Research Students

The Team
2026 - 2027
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
Ph.D., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT
Lab Director
Interim Chair & Tenured Associate Professor , FIU

Teya William
Lab Coordinator
MS - SLP, FIU

Jannabel Ameen
Ph.D Student, FIU

Alexa Capote
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU


Cassandra Sanchez
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU

Brittney Nisbett
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU

Natalie Falls
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU
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