Speech-Language Clinic
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (Ï㽶ֱ²¥) Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic serves the general population of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. The Clinic is a primary training site for graduate students in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. Graduate students provide comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services to individuals with speech, language, and hearing disorders under the direct supervision of faculty who are certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and licensed by the State of Texas as speech-language pathologists and audiologists.
Clinical Services
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center integrates state of the art services with cutting edge research in order to provide comprehensive evaluations and/or therapy services for individuals with a wide range of communicative impairments including:
- Articulation & Phonology
- Developing Language & Literacy
- Stuttering
- Voice
- Aural Rehabilitation
- Central Auditory Processing
- Augmentative/ Alternative Communication
- Aphasia
- Apraxia
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Pragmatics
- Memory
- Feeding and Swallowing
- Auditory Verbal Treatment
Speech Language Clinic Programs:
STROKE & APHASIA RECOVERY (STAR) PROGRAM
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic aphasia therapy is provided in a small group conversational setting. The goal is to maximize speech and language abilities and reduce the effects of aphasia on communication. The group is designed for those who have reached the point of medical discharge and are looking for more long-term rehabilitative options. Group members meet once a week for an hour. Members may discuss past and present life experiences, current events, and common interest topics. Group activities may be used to target specific communication skills and life participation. Members are invited to determine activities as well as set individual and group goals.
Individual therapy is also available to complement group services.
SUMMER THERAPY PROGRAMS
Tech Tasters is a specialized feeding group for children who experience feeding aversion and/or oral- motor difficulties. Our program includes activities centered around food preparation, encouraging positive food exploration and oral-motor exercises. We promote social modeling during mealtime tasks and provide educational resources for parents to help integrate these strategies into family meals (ages 3+).
Tech Tykes targets building social skills and improving speech and language skills through active, hands-on activities for young children (age 3-1st grade).
Reading & Writing Raiders is a literacy group designed to enhance a variety of essential skills for academic growth and achievement. Our focus includes auditory listening, vocabulary development, reading fluency and comprehension, and foundational writing skills (2nd-5th grade).
Chatty Champions is designed to improve intelligibility in children with diagnoses related to speech sound disorders (apraxia, articulation/phonology disorder). Chatty Champions will learn by talking and discovering in an engaging environment that is speech sound based. (ages PK-5th grade).
Might Matadors is a program for elementary-age children who stutter. The program will include education about stuttering, stuttering advocacy, and learning strategies for being an effective communicator. Our program will also include parent and family education in order to learn the best ways to support your child who stutters (1st-5th grade).
PLAY Group Preschool Language and Articulation for Young Children (PLAY) Group is a group therapy program for preschoolers ages 3 – 6 years old. This 2-hour program on Friday mornings is designed to provide intervention for a variety of speech-language goals in a natural, play-based setting during individual, small group, and large group themed activities. Explicit instruction in articulation/phonology and expressive/receptive/pragmatic language is given during creative and age-appropriate learning opportunities. Intervention is provided by graduate students from the Department of Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences and the Department of Occupational Therapy and supervised by licensed speech-language pathologists.
WEE READ
Wee Read is a program that serves families with young children ages 12 months-3 years. This toddler story time is designed to provide engaging, developmental learning opportunities for the children and explicit instruction in language, literacy and behavior development for the caregivers. Wee Read utilizes age-appropriate books, songs, and various activities like crafts and sensory experiences to support early literacy and provide a framework for instruction regarding strategies that facilitate interaction and communication. Wee Read is available to all community members free of charge and is located at the Science Spectrum (2579 S. Loop 289, Lubbock, TX. 79423)