Our Speech & Language Services

UW Speech & Hearing Clinic provides comprehensive speech and language services grounded in evidence-based practice, clinical expertise, and patient-centered care across the lifespan. We provide assessment and treatment of the disorders described below, unless otherwise noted. If you are uncertain if we provide the services you are seeking, please feel free to contact us.

    • Acquired language disorder affecting speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. Intelligence is not affected.
    • Common difficulties include word-finding problems, trouble understanding complex speech, and difficulty reading/writing.
    • Assessment uses formal/informal tests and interviews.
    • Treatment focuses on improving communication and providing strategies.
  • We do not provide diagnostic evaluations for autism (i.e., we will not provide an initial diagnosis of autism). However, autistic children or children with suspected autism can receive evaluations and services in our clinic.

    • Neurodevelopmental condition involving social communication challenges and restricted/repetitive behaviors.
    • Assessment includes speech/language evaluation and family input.
    • Services include individualized supports, visual aids, and multimodal communication.
    • Motor-planning disorder characterized by vowel and consonant distortions and slow, segmented speech.
    • Treatment uses motor-based practice and focuses on intelligibility.
    • Result from neurological conditions such as TBI, stroke, brain tumor, and other acquired conditions, and affect attention, memory, reasoning, and social communication.
    • Assessment includes testing and interviews.
    • Treatment emphasizes functional strategies and participation.
    • Primary Progressive Aphasia (including PPA Group)
    • Alzheimer's
    • Stuttering involves repetitions and prolongations; cluttering involves rapid/irregular rate.
    • Assessment examines fluency, language, motor skills, and emotional reactions.
    • Treatment depends on age and goals, addressing fluency, confidence, and communication strategies.
    • Involve difficulties understanding or expressing language.
    • Assessment includes comprehensive language evaluation.
    • Treatment focuses on functional communication improvement.
    • Include dysarthria and apraxia, impacting speech planning and muscle control.
    • Dysarthria involves muscle weakness; apraxia involves impaired planning.
    • Assessment evaluates speech movements; treatment targets intelligibility and communication.
    • Occur when sound errors persist beyond age expectations (articulation, phonology, CAS).
    • Assessment examines speech patterns and oral movements.
    • Treatment is individualized and family-centered.
    • We currently only treat children and teens with speech sound disorders.
    • Include hoarseness, breathiness, strain, or fatigue caused by vocal fold or tract issues.
    • Assessment may include stroboscopy.
    • Treatment includes vocal hygiene and reducing inefficient patterns.

Augmentative and Alternative Communications (AAC)

We do not provide initial evaluations to “fit” or prescribe AAC devices. However, an individual with an AAC device can be evaluated or treated at our clinic.

Communication for Life (CFL)

The CFL group runs Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters, with evaluations occurring in the Summer quarter. Young adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities age 18-30 to work on communication skills for life, work, and leisure.

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Download Adult Speech & Language Intake Form 
Download Pediatric Speech & Language Intake Form