Speech, Language, & Hearing Services

Speech-language pathologists and audiologists treat persons with a wide variety of diseases/disorders, including: hearing impairment, autism, cerebral palsy, cognitive impairment (dementia), traumatic brain injury, cancer, laryngectomy, Down syndrome, cleft palate, learning disabilities, other developmental delays, degenerative diseases (e.g., Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), Parkinson's), surgical trauma, infections (e.g., AIDS), inflammatory processes (e.g., encephalitis, meningitis), Guillian-Barre, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and Rett syndrome.

The Communication Disorders and Sciences Program uses the Clinical Center as a training site for graduate students preparing to become professional speech-language pathologists.  A variety of services are provided under the major categories of evaluation and treatment.

Speech-language and hearing services are provided for the following communication aspects:

Articulation – speech sound production, speech intelligibility, dysparaxia of speech, and accent modification.
Language – receptive and expressive language skills in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and manual modalities.  Aspects of language include phonology (sound use), morphology (use of word forms), syntax (grammatical rules), semantics (word use), and pragmatics (social skills).
Voice and Resonance – quality, pitch, volume, respiration, timbre.
Fluency – stuttering, cluttering, speech rate, rhythm, and prosody.
Swallowing – non-instrumental evaluation and treatment of oral and pharyngeal functions, oral function for feeding, and orofacial myofunction.
Cognition – attention, memory, sequencing, problem-solving, and executive functioning.
Pragmatic/Social Language – social language skills (e.g. eye gaze, bodily orientation, conversational speech for topic initiation and topic maintenance, appropriate behavior, turn-taking).
Augmentative and Alternative – oral and manual techniques, assistive technologies.
Hearing – screening (pure tone, air only), acoustic reflex, central auditory processing, and tympanometry.  We do not provide hearing aid fitting or repair.

Evaluation Services

Graduate students under the direct supervision of a licensed and certified supervisor are available to provide assessments of children and adults.  Speech-language assessments are typically 2 hours in length.  We do not provide court ordered evaluations, nor do we provide services to any client involved in litigation or potential litigation or grievance (e.g. worker’s compensation cases, IEP appeals).

Treatment Services

Speech-language services are offered as both individual and group sessions.  Typically, group sessions are offered for accent modification, fluency, and pragmatics; however, availability is dependent upon clients’ needs.  Sessions are scheduled during regular semester hours.  No services are offered on days when classes are not in session.

Have Questions?

Please see our Language and Hearing Services Frequently Asked Questions.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:13