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Clinical and Community Services

The Hampton University Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic is a non-profit full service facility providing diagnostic and therapeutic services in the areas of speech, language and hearing disorders to persons of all ages.  Services are available by appointment only throughout the university’s academic year as well as during the summer session.  The HUSLHC provides clinical, educational, and consulting services to the greater Hampton Roads community.

As an educational program for the training of future speech-language pathologists, clinical services are provided by graduate students and senior undergraduate students in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders.  All students are supervised by speech-language pathologists or audiologists certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and licensed by the State of Virginia.

Evaluations are offered in articulation language, voice, fluency and aphasia.  Traditional therapy programs are offered in the areas of articulation, fluency, voice, language and aural rehabilitation.  Services are also offered to those persons who wish to reduce their accent, if English is their second language.   Persons who would like to reduce a prominent regional dialect can also be assisted.  During the fall and spring semesters, most clients attend 50- minute sessions twice weekly. 

During the university’s summer session, four specialized five –week speech and language therapy programs are offered.

• The Communication Skills Session (Clinic I) focuses on small group language therapy for 3 to 8 year olds using an experiential approach.  This half day program is conducted four days per week wherein the children receive both group and individual therapy in addition to motor and sensory stimulation, creative play and cognitive development activities.
• Individual Therapy (Clinic II) provides intensive therapy for persons of all age groups.  Each participant receives 50 minutes of intensive individual therapy four days per week, which is designed to meet the needs of the client regardless of the nature of the disorders. 
• Talking Tots (Clinic III) is a language stimulation program for children from 18 months to three years.  Utilizing a guided interaction format two days per week for 90 minutes, “slow talkers” are provided with models for oral communication.
• The Social Skills Session (Clinic IV) is designed to increase appropriate peer interactions, comprehension and listening skills in addition to vocabulary and social language for 8-10 year olds who need improvement in social and pragmatic skills.
• A weekly parent’s group provides information and counseling regarding issues concerning communicative disorders to parents and significant others of clients enrolled in any of the summer clinic programs.  Simultaneously, a sibling group is held to assist siblings of those enrolled in the summer clinic program. The siblings receive information to help them understand their sisters and brothers with communication disorders.

Off campus experiences

The Hampton University Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic extends its outreach services to several preschool programs and private schools in the Hampton/Newport News area.  These programs provide students with experiences in evaluation and diagnosis, remediation, prevention and consultation in a variety of disorder areas.  Graduate student clinicians have opportunities to practice skills with children and adults in local hospitals,  rehabilitation centers and public schools throughout Hampton Roads.