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About the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic

What does the clinic have to offer?

The purpose of the Elmhurst College Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is to provide the highest quality care for all clients. The Elmhurst College Clinic provides speech, language, and audiological evaluations, as well as therapy for individuals of all ages with communication problems associated with the disorders listed below. Intensive infant and early childhood speech and language stimulation also is provided. Parental involvement is encouraged through ongoing consultation with clinical staff, in-session activites, and observation from behind one-way mirrors.

• Language Disorders
• Phonological Disorders
• Articulation
• Learning disabilities
• Voice/alaryngeal speech
• Aphasia—strokes
• Fluency/stuttering
• Hearing impairments
• Speech-language delay
• Autism
• Foreign accent/dialectal differences
• Behavior disorders
• Oral facial muscle imbalance/tongue thrusting
• Downs, Cornelia de Lange, fetal alchohol and other syndromes

Services are primarily provided by undergraduate speech-language pathology majors, supervised by the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic staff. All clinical staff members are certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and licensed by the State of Illinois. Private therapy with a clinical staff member also is available. For additional information, call (630) 617-3555.

Each member of the faculty has had extensive education and experience in the field of communication disorders.

In addition to providing clinical services for individuals with speech, language, and hearing problems, Elmhurst College offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees with a major in speech-language pathology.