Students usually provide services in our clinic three to four semesters in their course of study. Speech, language and hearing evaluations are thorough, in-depth sessions used to identify and describe a person's communication problem. Usually, evaluations last three hours. After the client is diagnosed with a speech, language, or hearing disorder, he or she may be enrolled in weekly therapy sessions at the clinic. Clients are typically seen two times a week for 50-60 minute sessions.
All clients have goals personalized to meet their communication needs.
Goals are developed by the student clinician after consultation with the client, the client's family, and the student clinician's supervisor. Therapy sessions are scheduled for 14 weeks with short breaks between semesters. Clients Clients with disorders of all types receive therapy and evaluations including language disorders, voice disorders, fluency disorders, speech sound disorders, and hearing disorders. Both children and adult clients are seen at the clinic. The clinic's caseload is diverse with a large clientele of adults with aphasia and children with language disorders as a result of autism.