College of Health Sciences

Communication Sciences and Disorders

The Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders offers both a pre-professional undergraduate degree in communication disorders and a master’s degree program in speech-language pathology. Speech-language pathologists are health care professionals who evaluate and treat problems related to speech sound production, comprehension and production of language, voice, stuttering, swallowing, orofacial anomalies, and hearing for individuals across the lifespan. The program provides a student-run outpatient clinic as well as inpatient and outpatient speech-language pathology services for UK Hospital and Kentucky Clinic.

CD Academic Clinic

Location:
Room 110 C.T. Wethington Bldg.
 900 South Limestone St.
Lexington, KY 40536-0200
Phone: (859) 257-7918

Contact:
Donna Morris, Clinic Director
Kimberly Pittman, Staff

Services Offered

Speech services are available for children, adolescents, and adults with disorders of articulation, phonology, stuttering, as well communication problems associated with cleft palate. neurological impairment, apraxia, and dysarthria.

Language services are available for children, adolescents, and adults with communication problems associated with developmental delays, learning disabilities, strokes, head injuries, and cognitive-linguistic impairment.

Accent Reduction and English Communication services are available to adults who are non-native speakers of English or non-standard speakers of English.

Clinical Goals

To provide high quality diagnostic and treatment services to children, adolescents, and adults who have communication differences and disorders of speech, language, and hearing.

To provide a practicum experience for students at the University of Kentucky in the Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders, so that students can develop competence in the diagnosis and treatment of individuals who have speech, language, and hearing disorders.

Professional Staff

The UK CSD faculty and professional clinical staff are highly experienced in working a variety of communication delays, disorders, and/or communication differences. All faculty and staff working in the our Clinic hold the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP or CCC-A) and licensure in the Kentucky Board of Speech/Language Pathology and Audiology.

Clinical Voice Center

Location:
Kentucky Clinic
Room B317, 3rd Floor, Wing C
740 South Limestone St.
Lexington, KY 40536-0284
Phone: (859) 257-0143

Contact:
Joseph C. Stemple, Ph.D., Clinic Director
Kimberly West, Patient Relations Assistant

 

Speech Language Pathology

Location:
Room 110 C.T. Wethington Bldg.
 900 South Limestone St.
Lexington, KY 40536-0200
Phone: (859) 257-7918

Contact:
Sarah Campbell, M.S., CCC-SLP, Clinic Director
Teresa L. Clark, Patient Relations Assistant III

Academic Clinic

Room 110 C.T.Wethington Bldg.
900 S. Limestone St.
Lexington, KY 40536-0200
Phone: (859) 257-7918

Clinical Voice Center

Room B323 Kentucky Clinic
740 South Limestone Street
Lexington, KY 40536-0284
Phone: (859) 257-0143

Speech Language Pathology

Room 110 C.T.Wethington Bldg.
900 S. Limestone St.
Lexington, KY 40536-0200
Phone: (859) 257-7918