Miller Speech & Hearing Clinic
TCU's Miller Speech & Hearing Clinic provides clinical services to individuals facing challenges in speech, language, hearing, or swallowing, including members of the Fort Worth community and surrounding areas.
Services are led by a team of licensed clinical professionals and instructors who guide undergraduate and graduate students at TCU in assessing and treating individuals facing challenges with speech, language, hearing, or swallowing.
Referrals to the clinic may come from physicians, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, psychologists, educators, other health professionals or via self-referral.
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Hearing
Offering diverse diagnostic audiological services for clients of all ages, from infants to adults, including hearing screening, audiological evaluations, immittance and otoacoustic emission testing, and speech audiometry.
This clinic offers therapy services for children and adults with hearing loss. For children, the services include training in listening and spoken language; for adults with hearing loss, the focus is on listening, lip reading, and communication skills training. Clients who use hearing aids, cochlear implants, or other listening devices participate in audiological rehabilitation services.
This clinic provides educational support for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Speech and Language
Clients undergo a thorough assessment of speech, language and cognition. The assessment results guide the creation of personalized treatments tailored to individual strengths and weaknesses—treatment, whether individual or in small groups, is based on the client's needs. Additionally, clients may be assigned home activities to improve communication further.
Offered by both monolingual and bilingual individuals, services include assessment and treatment for Spanish-speaking and bilingual adults with speech, language and/or cognitive issues, as well as services for those seeking to modify their regional or foreign accent. While an accent is not considered a speech or language impairment, our speech-language pathologists use their expertise to adjust articulation and language intonation to change an accent.
Unlike traditional methods for correcting speech errors, biofeedback provides real-time feedback on both correct and incorrect aspects of sound production. This is achieved by visually observing your tongue's movements inside your mouth.
This clinic offers services to help individuals correct speech sound errors. We collaborate closely with our research lab, B.E.S.T. Lab, to gather research data on speech sound production and treatment. Using biofeedback technologies such as ultrasound imaging and electropalatography, we provide personalized feedback to clients to accurately correct speech sound errors.
Assess and treat children aged 18 months to 18 years with speech, language, neurological, and cognitive impairments through a range of comprehensive interventions, including individual and group sessions.
Services for adults, children and their families include evaluations and treatment for stuttering. After an initial assessment, personalized treatment options are determined to meet individual needs.
The Voice Clinic specializes in helping people with speaking or singing voice difficulties. Individuals undergo a thorough evaluation, including laryngeal function studies and imaging. After the assessment, patients receive a summary of the findings with recommendations for voice therapy, if needed. If not previously seen by an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat specialist), a referral is required before starting therapy. Treatment is tailored to the patient's diagnosis and issues, using both traditional techniques and modern computerized equipment to improve voice function and quality.
Classrooms
Camp Leaps is a free language and literacy summer program for early elementary children (Pre-K through 4th grade) with identified speech, language and/or reading delays.
Thanks to the generous contributions of the Fort Worth Scottish Rite Foundation and the Chapman Family Foundation, we're bringing children's literature to life through interactive learning stations and special thematic events.
- Pre-Readers Group is for children who need to develop early literacy skills crucial to kindergarten success.
- Emerging Readers Group is for children entering 1st and 2nd grade and focuses on improving reading fluency and decoding.
- Reader Group is for children entering 3rd grade and focuses on enhancing reading comprehension and written composition.
The Early Childhood Speech & Language Classrooms serve children who need more focused therapy than individual sessions can provide. Customized treatment plans address each child's communication needs. The clinic also includes parent meetings linked to preschool groups, which provide valuable information and guidance to support continued efforts at home. Two class levels are available:
Level I
This classroom is for three- to four-year-old children with emerging language skills. It includes both group and individual therapy,
with play-based group sessions focusing on vocabulary, phonological awareness, literacy,
play and social skills.
The classroom meets on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, 9:30-11:00 a.m., with a 1:1 or 1:2 clinician-to-client ratio.
Level II
This classroom is for four- and five-year-old children. It includes both group and
individual therapy to prepare children for kindergarten, featuring a one-hour systematic
curriculum focused on emergent literacy and language skills, with the remaining 30
minutes allocated to individual treatment.
The classroom meets Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1-2:30 p.m.
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Location
Texas Christian University
Miller Speech & Hearing Clinic
3305 W Cantey Street
Fort Worth, TX 76109
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Contact
For more information about clinical services at the Miller Speech and Hearing Clinic, contact:
Sheila Speak
Clinical Administrative Assistant
817-257-7620 (office)
817-257-5692 (fax)
s.m.speak@tcu.edu