The two-week camp was a university-based preschool language-literacy enrichment sum- mer camp for children with speech and language delays. Program activities were led by six graduate clinicians with undergraduates serving as Therapy Assistants under the su- pervision of clinical teaching faculty, Ms. Colette Edwards and Ms. Lisa McDonald. Pre- schoolers, ages 2 ½ -5 years, participated in 2 ½ hours daily of educational and thera- peutic activities. The camp was designed to enhance children’s speech, language and emergent literacy skills. Parents observed the children through observation windows, participated in activities, and received suggestions of direct and indirect intervention techniques to use at home. Animal World Comes to Summer Language-Literacy Camp 2010 Spring 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011 Annual Report of the Speech and Hearing Center Animal World Camp was a bucket of fun! Puppets shows added to the fun of summer camp. Inside the Annual Report Transgender Conference 2 Cochlear Implant Connections 2 TBI Survivors at Horse Power 3 Collaboration with Beyond Academics 3 Foreign Accent Modi- fication Program 3 Voice and Communi- cation Group 4 Fluency Clients and “The King’s Speech” 5 Brain Injury Associa- tion’s Walk and Roll- athon 4 Voice Disorders Sup- port Group 5 Undergrad Honor Students in Practicum 5 Audiology 6 On-Campus Services 7 Off-Campus Services 8 Speech and Hearing Program at Gateway University Research Park 8 Public School Con- tracts 9 Career Fair 10 UNCG Health Fairs 10 Summary 10 Appendix 1. Services of the Center 11 Comment from a parent: “I don’t think you realize just how fantas- tic your camp is!! So thank you for all of the time and effort I know that goes into it. It is heads and shoulders above anything else being offered.” 300 Ferguson Building
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The two-week camp was a university-based preschool language-literacy enrichment sum-mer camp for children with speech and language delays. Program activities were led by six graduate clinicians with undergraduates serving as Therapy Assistants under the su-pervision of clinical teaching faculty, Ms. Colette Edwards and Ms. Lisa McDonald. Pre-schoolers, ages 2 ½ -5 years, participated in 2 ½ hours daily of educational and thera-peutic activities. The camp was designed to enhance children’s speech, language and emergent literacy skills. Parents observed the children through observation windows, participated in activities, and received suggestions of direct and indirect intervention
techniques to use at home.
Animal World Comes to Summer Language-Literacy Camp 2010
Spring 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011
Annual Report of the
Speech and Hearing Center
Animal World Camp was a bucket of fun! Puppets shows added to the fun of summer camp.
Inside the Annual
Report
Transgender Conference
2
Cochlear Implant Connections
2
TBI Survivors at Horse Power
3
Collaboration with Beyond Academics
3
Foreign Accent Modi-fication Program
3
Voice and Communi-cation Group
4
Fluency Clients and
“The King’s Speech” 5
Brain Injury Associa-tion’s Walk and Roll-
athon
4
Voice Disorders Sup-
port Group 5
Undergrad Honor
Students in Practicum 5
Audiology 6
On-Campus Services 7
Off-Campus Services 8
Speech and Hearing Program at Gateway University Research
Park
8
Public School Con-
tracts 9
Career Fair 10
UNCG Health Fairs 10
Summary 10
Appendix 1. Services
of the Center 11
Comment from a parent: “I don’t think you realize just how fantas-tic your camp is!! So thank you for all of the time and effort I know that goes into it. It is heads and shoulders above anything else
being offered.”
300 Ferguson Building
This event brought healthcare professionals together with the transgender community to discuss voice and communication issues in the unique context of the transgender community. Sponsors included Guilford Green Foundation, The Adam Foundation and Replacements, LTD. Keynote speakers for the conference were Richard Adler, Ph. D., Professor at Min-nesota State University Moorhead and Co-Editor of the text Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender/Transsexual Client and Mara Kiesling, Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) in Wash-ington, D.C. According to the evaluation ratings of partici-pants, the overall conference received an average mean rating of 4.59 on a 5 point scale regarding the effectiveness of the program. This conference was unique in that it was the first one designed primarily for speech-language pathologists
working with people who are transgender.
Transgender Communication and Wellness
Conference, May 22, 2010
Cochlear Implant Connections Goes on a Fieldtrip
Cochlear Implant Connections (CIC), an adult cochlear im-plant group, supervised by Ms. Lyn Mankoff and Dr. Denise Tucker, which met weekly in both the Spring and Fall Semesters, provided individual and group therapy focused on in-creasing speech percep-tion abilities and provid-ing social emotional support. The purpose of this excursion was to provide communication practice for the clients who were learning to advocate for them-
selves.
“The clients let the guide at the Civil
Rights Museum know
what they needed from him in order
to understand his lecture!
We were very proud of
them.” Lyn Mankoff, May
2011
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CSD faculty and graduate students pose with our two keynote speakers.
CIC visits The Civil Rights Center and Museum
Comments from participants: “Excellent and meaningful. Lots of good information and resources!”
“Wonderful speakers, topics, and suggestions.” “It was an amazing life-changing experience. I had very little knowledge of the transgender
community before attending this conference and I learned so much in just a few hours.”
In the summer of 2010, we collaborated with Horse Power, Inc., a therapeutic riding center, to provide a two week camp for adults who had sustained traumatic brain injuries. Six adult clients were served by ten graduate students su-pervised by three clinical faculty members, Ms. Lyn Mankoff, Dr. Kristine Lundgren, and Mr. Perry Flynn. While learning about the mechanics of riding a horse, our clients also par-ticipated in various cognitive activities to improve memory,
language and social communication.
Our Center offers foreign accent modification (FAM) instruction for those people who are non-native speakers of English and who want to improve their spoken English skills. Those who are stu-dents or faculty at UNCG can enroll in CSD 219-01 and receive a one hour pass/fail credit for their participation in this group pro-gram that meets twice weekly for one hour each time. Areas of focus include pronunciation, intonation, syllable stress, idioms and grammar. Supervisors for the FAM clients this past year were Ms.
Colette Edwards and Ms. Louise Raleigh.
TBI Survivors Saddle up at Horse Power, Inc.
“A Leg Up” with Foreign Accent Modification
Collaboration with UNCG’s Beyond Academics
The Center engaged in a cooperative agreement with Beyond Academics, a UNCG program that provides a residential and academic experience for college age persons with intellectual disabilities. Our Center provided a Social Language Group, su-pervised by Mr. Perry Flynn & Ms. Lisa McDonald, that met weekly, primarily in community settings, for 1 ½ hours and in-cluded seven to nine graduate clinicians and seven clients. Goals were to help clients improve their social-communication skills within functional settings such as an off-campus coffee shop, a restaurant and an art museum. On-campus, clients learned to navigate their way around by ask-ing for directions and interacting with same age peers.
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Horse Power Summer Camp
“My horse’s name was Dixie. I learned how
to take care of my horse, feed my horse, brush down and water my horse. I even had
to learn how to clean up after my horse. Dix-ie was dark brown and had big happy eyes.”
Charles T. Quate, June 2010
FAM group members during an instruc-tional session with graduate clinicians
“Learning to ride the horse helped me improve my balance, follow
multi-step directions, and my overall con-fidence. Horse Power was a great experi-
ence and I would love to do it again.”
Charles Lyons, June 2010
Annual Report of the Speech and Hearing Center
INFO ABOUT WALK
The Voice and Communication Group program serves pri-marily male-to-female trangender individuals who want to develop/improve/increase their feminine voice and commu-nication behaviors. The focus of the program includes vocal hygiene and care of the voice; pitch, intonation and reso-nance; spoken language use; and nonverbal communication. In Spring Semester, 2010, three male-to female transgender clients attended the beginning group held at the Speech and Hearing Program at Gateway University Research Park; in Fall Semester, 2010, four new clients attended a beginning group at our on-campus center. Graduate clinicians were under the supervision of clinical faculty members Ms. Vicki McCready, Ms. Sena Crutchley, and Ms. Colette Edwards. Funds from the Guilford Green Foundation and The Adam
Foundation continued to support this program.
Voice and Communication Group
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Graduate students served food and
volunteered at the Walk and Roll-
athon
Mock “Cocktail Party” during therapy session.
The Brain Injury Association of NC (BIANC) ’s 2010 and 2011 Walk & Roll-athon
Center personnel, Dr. Kristine Lundgren and Ms. Lyn Mankoff, along with several graduate student clinicians, helped plan and participated in BIANC’s annual fundraiser for the Triad area during the Spring Semesters of both 2010 and 2011. Our students and faculty solicited door prizes from the community, stuffed registration bags, cooked and served hamburgers and hot dogs, and cleaned up after the walk was over. They also presented information about the services of the Speech and Hear-ing Center. As stated in BIANC’s press release, this event helped “shine the light on brain injury” and supported the mission of the organization to “offer help, hope and a voice for people with brain injury
and their families.” Several of our clients attended this event.
This program “has helped me realize my true vocal potential, in an environment that protects my vocal health while teaching me to extend my vocal range to a more natu-
rally feminine one…there’s more than just pitch: inflection, tempo, and verbal choices.” Group Program Client, April 2011
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Voice Disorders Support Group
The Voice Disorders Support Group for people with spasmodic dysphonia met bi-monthly at the UNCG Speech and Hearing Center. Volunteer stu-dents in CSD attended the group that was advised by Dr. Ginger Hinton and made presentations on current speech treatments.
Four undergraduate Honors students joined CSD 571, Beginning Clinical Practicum, in the Fall Semester of 2010. They participat-ed on Clinical Teaching Teams and worked with a graduate clini-cian and supervisor providing services to a variety of clients. In addition to their clinical work, they participated in Grand Rounds presentations and completed a special clinical project, e.g., a notebook on fluency materials and literature sources.
Our Clients Find Their Voices through “The King’s Speech” and
Fluency Therapy at UNCG
The award winning movie “The King’s Speech,” which premiered in the spring of 2011, not only in-creased the public’s awareness of stuttering but it also increased the self-confidence of our clients. They participated in interviews with a reporter from WFMY TV news and in a “mock” therapy session that was also filmed and broadcast. At the 2011 Annual Convention of the North Carolina Speech-Hearing-Language Association, our UNCG Speech and Hearing Center fluency team supervised by Ms. Vicki McCready received the Public information Award for Special Achievement. Clients from both the com-
munity at-large and from UNCG can receive both individual and group fluency therapy at our Center.
This group of clinicians and clients who stutter received the 2011 NCSHLA Public Info Award for Special Achievement, “Stuttering Makes Everyday Life Diffi-
cult.”
“Therapy at UNCG is not just learning techniques to man-age your stuttering but also to help you realize and accept yourself as a person who stutters.” Zeb
Perrell, April 2011.
Graduate Class of 2011 with Clinical Faculty
Undergrad Honor Students Join Clinical Practicum
Doctoral Student Training
UNCG Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
Clinic
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UNCG Speech and Hearing Center served as a fourth year externship site for two doctor of Audiology (AuD) students from other universities during 2010-2011. Emily Beasley from James Madison University (2009-2010) and Christianne Robert-son from Texas Tech University (2010-2011) worked full-time as clinical providers in audiology, providing both diagnostic and rehabilitative services to patients of the Center. Dr. Lisa Fox-Thomas provided clinical supervision. Ms. Robertson also en-rolled as a PhD student at UNCG during Fall 2010 and Spring 2011, completing 12 semester hours with Dr. Fox-Thomas that included two independent studies and two directed research
projects.
Celebrating its ten year anniversary in 2010, the UNCG Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Clinic continued to serve patients from across North Carolina and the surrounding area. Patients report significant improvement in tinnitus disturbance and/or sound sensitivity using Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) or Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment. A clinical dissertation on TRT outcomes was completed by AuD student, Emily Beasley, under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Fox-Thomas and Dr. Denise Tucker. Results were presented by Dr. Fox-Thomas at the Ruth Symposium held at James Madison University in October 2010. Other highlights include the publication of the second issue of Tinnitus Times, a newsletter sent to patients of the Center with important updates in the area of tinnitus. A research team also was formed to investigate the future role of Teleaudiology in tinnitus treatment. This team of faculty and students at UNCG began work on a series of papers it plans to
publish in the upcoming year.
The Center offers an ongoing series of weekly classes called the Better Hearing and Communication Workshops developed to help patients learn to opti-mize use of instrumentation and improve their com-munication. Faculty and doctoral students at UNCG present information on hearing loss and hearing aids, assistive listening devices, speech reading, nonverbal communication, communication strategies, and asser-tiveness training. Special “5th Tuesday workshops” also are offered twice yearly on a variety of topics. Patients have reported these workshops to be both extremely interesting and helpful. In Fall 2010, a one-hour seminar was presented to UNCG employees as part of the Human Resources Wellness series. A semi-nar for UNCG alumni also was developed and presented at the Alumni House. In Spring 2010 and 2011, members of the community were invited to attend an educational seminar on hearing loss and
hearing aids hosted by UNCG and Siemens Hearing Instruments.
“I appreciate your efforts to help me improve my communication skills . . . This workshop experience makes me realize I can cope better and feel better about myself—encouraging!” Workshop
Participant
Audiology
Audiology team working together: Ms. Robertson and Dr. Fox-Thomas
Group Workshops and Seminars
Better Hearing and Communication Workshop
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On-Campus Services
During the spring, summer and fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011, The University Speech and Hear-ing Center provided services to 682 children, adolescents, and adults (speech and language services to 240 and audiology services to 442) at our on-campus center. The Center also provided services to 830 children, adolescents, and adults (speech and language services to 272 and audiology services
Our on-campus referrals came from students and faculty on campus and from parents, agencies, physicians, and educators in Greensboro and surrounding areas. The number of client visits to the on-campus center for evaluations (including separate visits for reporting conferences) and therapy
during the past year is summarized below:
UNCG Clinical Supervisors: Perry Flynn, Lisa McDonald, Colette Edwards, Vicki McCready, Lyn Mankoff, and Louise Raleigh
UNCG student working on articulation with a graduate clinician
Reading therapy with a first grader UNCG Speech and Hearing Center/ CSD Office Staff: Car-oline Pittman, Mitzi Lorenz, Olga Olejarczyk, and
In addition to the evaluation and therapy services at our on-campus center, we provided evaluations and therapy in the community-at-large. In the spring and fall of 2010 and spring of 2011, through con-tractual agreements with Guilford County Public Schools, Rockingham County Schools and Phoenix Academy, we provided assessments and weekly therapy for preschool, elementary school, middle school and high school students. In the spring of 2010 we conducted speech and hearing screenings at Mount Zion Church, New Light Baptist Church and Caldwell House. In the fall of 2010 we also conducted hearing screenings at Phoenix Academy, Duke Energy and Emmanuel Senior Enrichment Center. In the spring of 2011, additional screenings of children were conducted at UNCG Daycare, Moses Cone Children’s Corner and CTCC Children’s Center. Screenings of senior citizens were completed at Dorothy Bardolph Senior Center, The Caldwell House, Hall Tower, Gateway Plaza and
Adult Center for Enrichment.
The following figures are the number screened and evaluated and the number of therapy sessions
from all these off-campus activities:
Group therapy session at Bethany Elementary School in Rockingham
County
At our affiliated Speech and Hearing Program located at the Gateway University Research Park, directed by Mr. Mike Campbell, Mr. Campbell supervised three graduate students who treated clients with Parkin-son’s disease and other types of voice disorders while Ms. Sena Crutchley supervised one graduate clini-cian who conducted telepractice therapy for two elementary schools in eastern North Carolina.
Speech and Hearing Program at the Gateway University Research Park
Annual Report of the Speech and Hearing Center
Our Center continued our contract to render speech and lan-guage services to elementary school students at Phoenix Acade-my in High Point, NC. Phoenix Academy is a Kindergarten through fifth grade North Carolina Charter School, a tuition free public school of choice. Ms. Lisa McDonald, a UNCG clinical edu-cator, honored the contract and supervised four different gradu-ate student clinicians each semester. The graduate student clini-cians planned and provided pull-out and inclusion services to stu-dents in the school who had Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). In addition to the provision of speech and language ser-vices, screenings and diagnostic testing were conducted through-out the school year as well. Ms. McDonald and Ms. Kim Nor-cross, the Principal of Phoenix, presented a report of our collabo-ration entitled “Mission Possible” at the Blueprint for Excellence
Conference in Orlando in December of 2010.
Our Center continued a cooperative contractual agreement with the Guilford County Schools. At Grimsley High School each semester three graduate students served students with communication dis-orders under the supervision of Mr. Perry Flynn. Graduate students provided speech and language ser-vices embedded in classroom instruction in two classrooms for students with intellectual disabilities and one for students with autism. In addition to these inclusive services, a few pull out therapy sessions were conducted each week. These pull out sessions served students with mild intellectual disabilities
who participated in the Occupational Course of Study. In the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011, our Center entered into a collaborative agreement with two speech-language pathologists (SLPs), Lori Jones and Emily Praster, working at Alamance Elementary and Bluford Elementary. These two SLPs supervised a total of four first year graduate clinicians and in return received ten hours of training, for one CEU, in supervision from our clinical faculty. The joint team pre-sented this model at a session in April, 2011, at the Annual Conference of the North Carolina Speech-
Hearing-Language Association.
Phoenix Academy
Guilford County Public Schools
Rockingham County Public Schools
Our Center continued a contract with Rockingham County Public Schools. In the Spring Semester of 2010, Ms. Colette Edwards supervised two graduate students working in Rock-ingham County Middle School with middle school children who were in sixth through eighth grade. In the Fall Semester of 2010 and Spring Semester of 2011, Ms. Edwards supervised two graduate students working at Bethany Elementary in a pre-school classroom and in individual therapy with elemen-tary school children. The team conducted speech-language
evaluations and provided therapy.
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Clinician working with a preschool student in Rockingham County
Annual Report of the Speech and Hearing Center
Summary
The year 2010 and the spring of 2011 were productive and rewarding for the UNCG Speech and Hear-ing Center. We continued to serve many clients, we helped train many students, and we collaborated
with many community programs and public school systems. It was a very good year!
Submitted by: Vicki McCready, M.A., CCC-SLP APT Professor and Director, UNCG Speech and Hearing Center
May 26, 2011
Graduate Class of 2012.
UNCG Health Fairs: 2010/2011
In the Spring Semesters of 2010 and 2011The Center participated in the annual health fairs at UNCG, one for University employees and one for the greater Piedmont Triad Community. The Center’s display highlighted the various services we provide in order to increase the community’s awareness of available
resources.
Career Fair A Career Fair, sponsored by UNCG’s chapter of the National Student Speech-Hearing-Language Association (NSSHLA) was held on Friday, February 19th in spring of 2010 and Friday, February 11th in spring of 2011. Approximately 30 speech-language pathologists and audiologists from various job settings set up booths to provided information about their settings as future employment sites for
students.
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General Description: The UNCG Speech and Hearing Center, in operation since 1967, provides a comprehensive service program for diagnosis and therapy in language, speech and hearing for adults, ado-lescents and young children. The Center is a modern, handicapped accessible facility on the UNCG cam-pus. The Center has eight therapy rooms and observation suites, a large pediatric language room with an observation suite, and two diagnostic suites for hearing evaluations and hearing aid fittings. In the spring of 2010, the Center became a Medicare approved provider. Services at the Center are provided by graduate student clinicians in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, who are carefully supervised by faculty members who are state licensed and na-tionally certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Faculty supervisors are responsi-ble for the diagnosis and management of all clients assigned to graduate clinicians. Faculty have many years of experience and expertise in the field of communication disorders. Services: The following services are available to community members of all ages:
• Evaluation of hearing, auditory processing, speech, language, reading, fluency and voice
• Auditory evoked potential evaluations
• Therapy for disorders of motor speech, articulation, language, reading, cognition, voice and fluency
• Summer preschool and early elementary school language groups
• Transgender Voice and Communication Group
• Assistance in accent modification for speakers of English as a second language
• Assistance for persons wanting to code-switch between standard English and a dialect
• Hearing aid consultation and fitting
• Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)
• Group and individual therapy for adults with cochlear implants Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
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