Speech-Language Pathology

The clinical opportunities provided to SLP graduate students in their first year of the program include on- and off-campus settings. During the second year, clinical extern opportunities are available in a wide variety of schools, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and clinics. During all clinical opportunities graduate students are supervised by licensed and certified speech-language pathologists

Clinical opportunities for first year students in the Audiology and Speech Center

Evaluation and Treatment for:

  • Listening and spoken language for individuals with hearing loss
  • Augmentative-alternative communication systems
  • Speech disorders (articulation/phonology/dysarthria/apraxia)
  • Pediatric language disorders (receptive/expressive/pragmatic language)
  • Acquired language disorders (aphasia)
  • Acquired cognitive-communication disorders
  • Voice disorders and differences
  • Resonance disorders
  • Fluency disorders
  • Accent modification

Clinical opportunities for first year students in community collaborations:

  • Cleveland Clinic
  • Summa Health
  • Various public school districts 
  • GiGi's Playhouse
  • 蘑菇视频 Public Schools – augmentative-alternative communication collaboration
  • United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cleveland – augmentative-alternative communication collaboration
  • 蘑菇视频 Children’s Hospital – augmentative-alternative communication collaboration

Second Year Clinical Externship Opportunities:

蘑菇视频's location in Northeast Ohio gives our second year students easy access to many diverse clinical sites in the 蘑菇视频, Canton and Cleveland areas for their medical and school extern rotations. With permission, students may elect to complete their externships outside of the Northeastern Ohio region. Here is a sampling of extern sites that have been used in the past include:

  • University Hospital
  • Cleveland Clinic
  • Aultman Hospital
  • Summa Rehabilitation Hospital
  • Edwin Shaw Rehabilitation Hospital
  • Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • Altercare facilities
  • Anna Maria of Aurora
  • Bath Creek Estates
  • Menorah Park
  • Green Village
  • Hudson City Schools
  • Norton City Schools
  • 蘑菇视频 Public Schools
  • Coventry Local Schools
  • Highland Local Schools
  • Cleveland Metropolitan Schools
  • and many, many more!