SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPY UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences |
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Clinics
A clinic for people with acquired communication disorders is run by two specialist speech & language therapists and students on Mondays and Thursdays. It provides long-term therapy for clients on a group or individual basis, and provides opportunities for students to have supervised clinical experience, as well as to carry out research projects. Clinical activities take place in a purpose-built accessible suite of rooms in Chandler House. The large majority of supervised placements of students on the Speech and Language Sciences degree programmes are provided by speech and language therapy services in the London and South-east areas. The supervising therapists work closely with academic staff in facilitating the development of the student's clinical skills. The department is at the forefront of developments in clinical teaching in the area of speech and language therapy, including the use of video and the use of innovative types of supervised placement.
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While the main activities of the department are concerned with education and research, staff also provide specialist consultation and therapy on a wide range of disorders. In addition to the national reputation of individual staff members, the department is known for its collective expertise in certain areas, for example children's speech, language and hearing disorders (including written language difficulties), and cognitive neuropsychological approaches to language disorders in adults. Clients are referred from a variety of sources, mainly speech and language therapists, medical consultants and teachers. 