Speech and Hearing Centers
The University of Rhode Island Speech and Hearing Centers provide comprehensive clinical services, both at the Kingston campus and our Pawtucket facility. These centers offer a broad range of speech-language and hearing services to clients of all ages. Those accepted for diagnostic and/or therapy services receive treatment from qualified professionals, with the assistance of trained graduate students in speech-language pathology and audiology.
We enjoy a very positive reputation for delivery of excellent professional services in our local community and well beyond. Our referrals come from all over the state of Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts. Clients may be self-referred or referred by educators, physicians, and other healthcare professionals. During the fall and spring semesters of AY 2008-2009, students completed 1,992 client contact hours.
Services include (but are not limited to) diagnostic hearing tests, hearing aid evaluations and dispensation; aural rehabilitation; assessment of and treatment for voice, articulation, fluency, and language disorders; communication and cognitive therapy for adults with neurological disorders resulting from strokes or traumatic brain injuries; and programs to improve fluency for ESL clients.
Elizabeth Connors, Director of Clinical Services, and the teaching faculty within the CMD Department are routinely involved in clinic supervision/teaching and research. Students enrolled in their senior year clinical methods course (CMD 465) have opportunities to observe graduate students and faculty providing therapeutic and diagnostic sessions in both speech-language pathology and audiology and accrue their ASHA-required 25 observation hours as a prerequisite to graduate-level clinical training. Speech and Hearing Center clients or their guardians sign a release indicating consent to being observed by qualified practicum students and, in some instances, for therapy sessions to be used for classroom instruction purposes via audio/video tapes.
Modest fees for clinical services are generally reduced for members of the URI Community and are adjusted for others consistent with ability to pay.
The Kingston Speech and Hearing Center is located in Independence Square at 25 W. Independence Way just off Kingstown Road. For directions to this location from Mapquest.com, click here.
The Pawtucket Speech and Hearing Center is located in Pawtucket's Independence Square at 500 Prospect Street. For directions to this location from Mapquest.com, click here.
For more information and/or to schedule an appointment at either of our centers, telephone (401) 874-5969 weekdays between the hours of 8:30 A.M. and 4:30 P.M.
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Welcome to spring semester, 2012!
National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NSSLHA) MEETING: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 from 7:15 to 9 p.m., White Hall, Auditorium (Room 113)
At our upcoming meeting we will be voting on our new by-laws (pick up a copy in Suite H, INSQ in the lounge if you were not at our last meeting) and voting for officers for next year. Special Program: Advocacy for SLPs, presented by Ellen Connery, President of the Rhode Island Speech and Hearing Association!
Thanks to our former students: Lauren Carey, Christine Schiemer, and Ashley White, who spoke with our NSSLHA group about working as an SLP in the real world at our l;ast meeting on March 28th!
Check out our updated table of graduate student student outcomes: PRAXIS examination, graduation, and employment rates by linking to:
Why CMD at URI? - Communicative Disorders - University of Rhode Island
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