The University's location in a metropolitan area of 7,000,000 people provides students with diverse opportunities for clinical experience or practicum in all areas of communication disorders. Individual programs have additional sites for practicum and off-campus institutions including hospitals, nursing homes, developmental centers, and schools. Clients with a wide range of speech and language problems are served by the speech and language clinics held in the Frances Searle Building and on the Chicago campus. The Hearing Clinic in Evanston and Audiology Services on the Chicago campus provide hearing evaluations for children and adults. These clinics are staffed by certified audiologists who dispense a wide variety of hearing aids and assistive listening devices.
Rehabilitative services are available for children and adults with impaired hearing.
The Speech, Language and Voice Service at the Medical School performs diagnostic evaluations and treatment of patients with voice disorders, partial and total laryngectomy and glossectomy, dysarthria, dysphagia and aphasia among other disorders. Clinical placements are also available in schools and private practices throughout the Chicago area. Speech Language Pathology are listed in the Graduate School Bulletin.