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The George Washington University Speech & Hearing Center has been serving clients since 1946. The Center provides a full range of speech, language, voice, accent modification and hearing services for individuals with communicative disorders. As an educational facility for graduate students entering the field of speech-language pathology, the Center maintains high standards in its delivery of comprehensive evaluations and therapy. The Center serves persons of all ages.
Evaluations and therapy treatments are administered by graduate student clinicians who are supervised by certified Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists. Since this is a teaching center, students and supervisory staff may observe sessions directly or through one-way observation windows. Clients may notify their clinician if they would prefer not to have student observers at a particular session.
Individual sessions are available for those with:
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Articulation Disorders
Fluency Challenges
Cerebral Palsy
Parkinson's Disease
Aphasia (often from Stroke Complications)
Developmental Delays
Reading and Spelling Delays
Hearing Loss, including Auditory Therapy to improve Listening and Speaking Skills
The Center offers additional services to those listed that make us unique in the field, specifically,
Therapy for the Transitioning Voice
Training in the areas of Professional Speaking Skills
Treatment for congnitive-linguistic issues
Programming for Cochlear Americas and Advanced Bionics cochlear implants
Group Therapy options for individuals with:
Clients with Transition Voices
Adults with Aphasia
Adults with Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke complications
Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Intensive Therapy options for individuals with:
Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Transitional Voices
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices
Accent Reduction Assistance
Summer Camps for individuals with:
Childhood Apraxia of Speech
The Center is located within walking distance of the Foggy Bottom Metro Station allowing for easy access from the DC, VA and MD areas. The state-of-the-art Center has sixteen multifaceted treatment, training rooms and conference rooms, four audiologic quarters dedicated to comprehensive hearing testing, and fitting and programming hearing aids and cochlear implants. There are seven speech-language pathologists and two audiologists on staff supervise the graduate clinicians.
Our excellent support staff can assist you in obtaining an appointment with the speech-language pathologists and audiologists. The Speech, Language and Voice portion of the Center operates on a semester basis while the Audiology portion of the Center operates year round. The Audiologists work with numerous brands of hearing aids and amplification products and also participate with the Audient/EPIC hearing aid program.
As a University-based Center, we are committed to providing our graduate student clinicians with a variety of disorders that will prepare them for future independence. As a result, in order to properly provide them with a meaningful education, the number of clients per semester is limited. Therefore, acceptance to our program cannot be guaranteed, however placement on a waiting list is available. If accepted into the program, clients are expected to maintain regular and punctual attendance. If frequent absence or tardiness occurs, we reserve the right to dismiss the client from the program.
We look forward to continuing to serve the needs of the community.
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