SERVICE

Faculty members in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders embrace UCF’s goal of becoming the nation’s leading partnership university. In this spirit, they give back to the greater Orlando community in many significant and real ways.

In all of the department’s partnerships, students have opportunities to assist with much-needed community services, or they benefit from community partners’ willingness to assist with their professional education and development.

The following partnerships illustrate how the department and the community join together in mutually beneficial ways:

  • Service-learning opportunities for students, services for constituents, and consultations for teachers, families and other professionals at ATEN, Birth Defect Research for Children, Brevard County Public Schools, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Children’s Medical Services-Rockledge, Down Syndrome Association, Einstein Montessori Charter School – Cocoa, Orange County Public Schools, Howard Phillips Center for Children and Families, Orlando Day Nursery, Seminole County Public Schools, St. Lucie County Public Schools, Share the Care and United Cerebral Palsy
  • Practicum placements at the UCF Communication Disorders Clinic, serving the greater Orlando community for some 35 years through evaluations and treatment for children and adults of all ages with language, speech, fluency, voice and swallowing disorders; hearing problems; and reading disabilities. The clinic also fits and dispenses hearing aids and provides cochlear implant mapping and auditory processing assessments
  • Practicum placements with adults who have developmental disabilities at Quest, Inc., pre-school children with severe communication disorders at United Cerebral Palsy, school-age children and adolescents with language and literacy disabilities at Orange County Public Schools, and individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication and other assistive technology at the Florida Assistive Services and Technology Atlantic Region Demonstration Center located at UCF’s Communication Disorders Clinic
  • Clinical externship sites for graduate students in communication sciences and disorders at over 200 sites throughout the Greater Orlando Region and the State of Florida
  • Monthly voice evaluations at the David B. Ingram Voice Care Center located at the UCF Communication Disorders Clinic with Ear, Nose, Throat and Plastic Surgery Associates
  • Vocal Health and Prevention Program for UCF vocal performance majors, including video-stroboscopic evaluations
  • Free or low-cost hearing screenings at Lake Highland Preparatory School, Redlands Christian Migrant Association, the Winter Park Health Foundation Back-to-School Fair and the annual WFTV Channel 9 Blood Drive and Health Fair.
  • In-service education for Osceola County bilingual diagnosticians
  • Consultations with Osceola County school district Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program
  • Coordination with Florida Department of Education’s Project Central to cultivate speech-language pathologists (SLPs) as professional developers in their school districts relative to the language basis of reading and the implementation of literacy-related roles and responsibilities by SLPs in schools
  • Resources and outreach to the Central Florida Dystonia Group, the Central Florida Huntington Disease Support Group, and the Central Florida Multiple Sclerosis Association
  • In-service staff education on memory disorders at Easter Seal Daybreak, Winter Park Towers, Pine Hills Group Home and Arden Court
  • Coordination of the Orlando Chapter of the National Stuttering Association Support Group
  • Consultation at the Children’s Medical Services Cleft Palate Clinic
  • Informal talks on communication and associated disorders as requested to community groups such as Kiwanis and the Greater Orlando and North Florida Alzheimer’s Association


 
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