The SLLAC Lab is currently accepting new research assistants to start in the Spring 2026 semester.
Submit your application through the survey below by December 3, 2025.
Decisions will be emailed to applicants by end of day December 18, 2025.
You will need to provide the following for the application:
- Resume
- Unofficial transcript
- A cover letter answering the following questions:
- Why do you want to join the SLLAC Lab?
- What skills can you bring?
- What do you want to learn?
To learn more about lab requirements and what YOU can gain from the SLLAC Lab, read the descriptions below:
Graduate Students
- Graduate student volunteers (SLHS and related programs)
- Interested Thesis students
Graduate research assistants are expected to gain research experience related to lab activities to support research dissemination. This may include the following opportunities:
- Attendance of lab meetings
- Development of research studies
- Project coordination roles
- Data collection
- Phonetic transcription
- Data coding and/or scoring
- Data analysis and interpretation
- Academic writing
- Academic presentations
- Community outreach and collaboration
- Social Media Coordinator
- Learning more deeply about Speech, Language, and Literacy!
Undergraduate Students
- Volunteer research assistants
- Prepare to commit a minimum of 6 hours per week. It is recommended these be completed in 2-hour increments.
- Required to work for a minimum of 2 semesters.
- If interested in completing an undergraduate thesis, this will need to be further discussed once you have SLLAC Lab experience.
The undergraduates can gain insight in the speech-language pathology profession and gain research experience related to lab activities to support research dissemination. This may include the following opportunities:
- Attendance of lab meetings
- Preparation for data collection
- Data collection
- Transcription of responses
- Simple data scoring
- Community outreach and collaboration
- Support social media coordinator
- Learning more deeply about Speech, Language, and Literacy!
- If completing a thesis, academic presentation and writing experience as well!