Speech-Language and Hearing Clinics

Each week the University Speech-Language & Hearing Clinics, located in the Walker D. Wyman Education Building (WEB) Room B33, provides speech-language, hearing and swallowing evaluations and therapy services to approximately 80-90 individuals of all ages from River Falls and surrounding communities.

Meet Our Clinicians

Meet Our Supervisors
    
Services are offered in the areas of:

• Hearing testing
• Articulation/Phonology
• Foreign accent reduction
• Stuttering
• Voice
• Language
• Feeding & swallowing
• Cognitive aspects of communication
• Social aspects of communication
• Augmentative/Alternative communication
• Speech therapy treatments for clients with Parkinson's Disease
  • The UWRF Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic is proud to offer SPEAK OUT!® and LOUD Crowd® therapy. The SPEAK OUT!® program is a therapy regimen focused on helping individuals with Parkinson’s disease improve their voicing, and their overall speaking abilities. This program typically consists of 12 individual sessions completed over 4-weeks and is then followed by the LOUD Crowd®. The LOUD Crowd® is a weekly group therapy program providing social engagement opportunities, as well as, maintenance for skills obtained during SPEAK OUT!®. For more information about SPEAK OUT!® and the LOUD Crowd® please visit the Parkinson’s Voice Project at: https://www.parkinsonvoiceproject.org/

  In addition to these individual services, the clinics provide:

• support group for individuals with autism - starting October 7, 2021 meetings will be held the first Thursday of the month from 6:30pm to 8pm.
• assistance to the University Preschool language facilitation groups for children in need.
• assistance to local school districts in providing on-site speech and hearing screenings for children in preschool through fifth grade.

Clinical services are provided by graduate students in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Supervision is provided by faculty and staff who are certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
    
Please review the Speech-Language Billing Policy 2022 for further information on fees and billing for services.  We do provide free services for UWRF enrolled students.
    
Call the clinic at 715-425- 3801 or email us at uwrfclinic@uwrf.edu.  For more information please see our flyer.

The UWRF Speech-Language and Hearing Clinics comply with the UW-River Falls Statement of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and do not discriminate against persons regardless of race, religion, creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, or military membership.