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Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
The UNCG Speech and Hearing Center
Hours of operation: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and early evenings
when possible.
Ages seen: ALL
General Description: The UNCG Speech and Hearing Center, in operation since 1967, provides a comprehensive service program for diagnosis and therapy in language, speech and hearing for adults, adolescents and young children. The Center is a modern, handicapped accessible facility on the UNCG campus. The Center has eight therapy rooms and observation suites, a large pediatric language room with an observation suite, and two diagnostic suites for hearing evaluations and hearing aid fittings.
Services at the Center are provided by graduate student clinicians in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, who are carefully supervised by faculty members who are state licensed and nationally certified by the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association. Faculty supervisors are responsible for the diagnosis and management of all clients assigned to graduate clinicians. Faculty have many years of experience and expertise in the field of communication disorders.
Services: The following services are available to community members of all ages:- Evaluation of hearing, speech, language, fluency and voice
- Hearing aid consultation and fitting
- Evaluation of central auditory processing (CAP/APD)
- Auditory evoked potential evaluations
- Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)
- Language-literacy evaluations in the areas of reading, written language, and phonological awareness
- Evaluation of severely speech impaired or non-speaking persons
- Therapy for disorders of central auditory processing, hearing, articulation, language, language-literacy, voice and fluency
- Preschool language groups
- Group and individual speech reading programs
- Transgender voice and communication group
- Assistance in accent reduction for speakers of English as a second language
- Assistance for persons wanting to code-switch between standard English and a dialect
Fees: Fee schedules for evaluations and therapy are available upon request. Payment methods include third-party reimbursement, cash, personal checks, and Mastercard or Visa. Clients may contact Olga M. Olejarczyk, our Patient and Clinic Accounts Administrator, who will assist them in making financial arrangements on an "as needed" basis.
Clinical Aspects of the Graduate Program
Before beginning practicum, students must complete 25 supervised hours of observation of speech-language pathology and 25 hours of observation of normally developing children. With this accomplished, as well as completion of the prerequisite courses, graduate students are ready to begin clinical practicum at the university under the close supervision of ASHA certified faculty.
Audiology:The UNCG Audiology Clinic is part of the University Speech and Hearing Center and provides CSD graduate students with opportunities to work with adult and pediatric clients with hearing disabilities. The Audiology Clinic is open to the public throughout most of the calendar year and offers a wide range of diagnostic and aural rehabilitation services. Associate Professor, Dr. Susan L. Phillips and Associate Professor, Dr. Denise A. Tucker, provide clinical instruction and supervision on a rotating basis, along with adjunct supervisory faculty.
Speech-Language Pathology: The initial registration for practicum is CSD 571: Beginning Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, followed by CSD 678: Advanced Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, which usually occurs in the second semester of the first year of graduate school. Graduate clinicians are assigned clients at either the UNCG Speech and Hearing Center or an off-campus site that we serve on a contractual basis. In addition, students must enroll in CSD 672: Minor Area Clinical Practice to complete their 20 hours in Audiology.
After finishing approximately 100 hours of clinical training during the first year, second year students in speech-language pathology and audiology register for CSD 677: Internship in Communication Disorders and are placed at two different sites, one per semester, under the supervision of a licensed, ASHA certified speech-language pathologist at that site. The CSD program at UNCG has contractual arrangements with many school systems, hospitals, and agencies in the region, including Guilford county Health Department, the Developmental Evaluation Center, The Guilford County School System, Moses Cone Hospital, Forsyth Memorial Hospital, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, and others. Students usually spend one semester in an educational setting and one semester in a medical/rehab setting.