Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic
Saint Louis University's Paul C. Reinert, S.J., Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic has served the St. Louis community for over 50 years. Our clinic is housed within SLU's Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. Under the direct supervision of certified and licensed speech-language pathologists and audiologists, our graduate-student clinicians provide services to people with speech, language, swallowing or hearing disorders.
We operate as a no-fee clinic, meaning that clients are not charged for our services.
We are grateful for donations from the public, which partly fund our clinic operations
and allow us to serve a wide range of clients.
Support the Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic
By providing comprehensive evaluation and treatment services, Speech, Language, and
Hearing Science students gain hands-on experience with therapeutic techniques via
supervised learning experiences.
The clinic has four components: speech and language, audiology, early childhood language
and literacy, and community outreach.
Diagnostic and treatment services include:
- Speech sound disorder
- Fluency/stuttering
- Voice and swallowing
- Social communication associated with Autism spectrum disorders
- Language and literacy
- Receptive and/or expressive language associated with developmental disorders or acquired conditions, such as aphasia
- Accent or dialect modification/accent addition
- Speech and language consultations
- SPEAK OUT!® Therapy for people with Parkinson's
Audiology services include the following diagnostic services:
- Diagnostic hearing evaluations
- Hearing screening
- Hearing-aid evaluation
- Hearing-aid dispensing, repair and battery sales
- Assistive listening devices
- Pediatric and adult hearing evaluations
- Immittance and otoacoustic emissions testing
- Auditory brainstem response testing
- Auditory processing evaluations
Saint Louis University’s Early Childhood Language/Literacy Center (ECLC) is a communication-based preschool program within the Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic. ECLC serves young children ages 2.5 to 5 with communication/language impairments. The program also provides graduate students with an excellent in-house clinical practicum opportunity.
A full-time SLHS faculty member serves as the coordinator of the program and provides comprehensive clinical instruction for the graduate students. The curriculum and routine provide a learning environment that is interactive, social, language-and-literacy-rich and play-based. Children learn by doing, talking, listening and acting on objects in the context of meaningful social-communicative interactions with both children and adults.
The Nutrition & Feeding Therapy Clinic is an interprofessional partnership between the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics at Saint Louis University. Graduate students from both departments partner together and receive clinical instruction from a dually credentialed speech pathologist and registered dietitian to diagnose and treat feeding disorders in children and adults.
Diagnostic and treatment services provided for feeding disorders often address issues like the ones listed below:
- Food selectivity
- Limited diet
- Food/drink refusal
- Nutritional deficiencies
- Mealtime behavior problems
- Food phobias
- Feeding and swallowing disorders (dysphagia)
- Oral-motor dysfunction
- Chewing difficulties
- Pediatric feeding disorder
- Tube feeding dependence
- Poor growth (failure to thrive)
Please contact Martha Blaess, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, RDN, LD for questions related to feeding/nutrition concerns.
Email: martha.blaess@health.slu.edu