Speech and Language Clinic
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The Hardin-Simmons University Speech and Language Clinic (HSUSLC) serves the general population throughout Abilene and the Big Country. The clinic provides diagnostic services and intervention for both pediatric and adult clients with a variety of speech, language, and swallowing disorders. Its primary goals are to provide high-quality speech and language services to clients of all ages and to be a central training site for the graduate level students within the HSU Department of Speech-Language Pathology.
At the clinic, HSU graduate student clinicians work with clients under the direct supervision of licensed and certified speech-language pathologists. Our students have access to the latest research in the field of speech-language pathology and work hand-in-hand with their expert supervisors to identify clients’ needs within the assessment process and then provide the best possible intervention.
Following a comprehensive assessment focused on determining clients’ specific strengths and challenges, intervention may be recommended. Intervention will target the identified areas of communication challenges, beginning with the identification of appropriate goals. Treatment plans are individualized for each client, depending upon the unique communication strengths and weaknesses.
The mission of Hardin-Simmons University is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by Christian faith and values. To that end, the HSUSLC is committed to providing high-quality speech and language services at no cost.
Speech and Language Clinical Services
The HSUSLC is focused on providing exceptional services by integrating evidence-based practice and current research into both assessments and treatments for populations with a variety of impairments, including:
- Articulation (difficulty pronouncing sounds)
- Voice
- Fluency (stuttering)
- Developing language
- Literacy
- Aphasia (acquired language disorder)
- Apraxia and dysarthria (motor speech disorders)
- Feeding and swallowing
- Pragmatics (social communication)
- Cognitive communication (attention, memory, organization)
Physical address:
HSU SLP Clinic
2200 Hickory St.
HSU Box 16172
Abilene, TX 79698-6172
Phone: 325-670-1014
E-mail address: slp@corpshort.com