Services

The Speech and Language Clinics offer comprehensive speech-language services, in addition to individual and group therapy for fluency, articulation, voice/resonance problems and language impairment disorders.

Common diagnoses include stuttering, childhood apraxia of speech, expressive phonological impairment, dysarthria, cleft palate, cerebral palsy, vocal nodules, autism, developmental delay, down syndrome, aphasia, acquired apraxia of speech, traumatic brain injury, stroke, Parkinson's disease and language-learning disability. Some of these diagnoses relate only to speech-language whereas other diagnoses will be made by related professionals.

General Outpatient Clinic

The General Outpatient Clinic serves clients in an after-school program. Many, but not all of the clients are school-age. Preschool children and adult clients may also be served in this program.

The outpatient clinic is scheduled on Monday between 4 and 7 p.m. Appointments are scheduled once per week for 50-minute sessions. Schedules are based on the needs of the client and family as well as the available openings in the program.

The clinic serves approximately 40 clients each semester. The outpatient clinic also offers specialized programs for autism, stuttering, hearing loss, speech sound disorders, language disorders and pediatric feeding disorders.

Preschool Language Acquisition Years (PLAY) Program

The PLAY Program is a six-week summer program offered at the Wayne State University Speech and Language Clinics during the summer term.

Hours

The PLAY Program meets on Monday and Wednesday mornings between 9 a.m. and 12 noon. Many children continue services in our general outpatient program and others return to school-based programs. The PLAY program groups are designed to address a range of communicative needs of preschool children. The composition and needs of the group vary each summer.

The program serves a total of 12 to 18 children each summer. Interested families should contact Ms. Denise Walker at denise.walker@wayne.edu prior to their child's participation in this program. We generally maintain a waiting list for this program.

Stuttering Program

The stuttering program offers individualized stuttering services for children and adults are available throughout the year.

Diagnostic Clinic

The Diagnostic Clinic provides diagnostic evaluations to most clients seeking speech-language intervention through the Wayne State University Speech and Language Clinics. The clinic is open on selected days and times throughout the year with the exception of August.

Speech Therapy and Education Program for Stroke Survivors Clinic (STEPSS)

The STEPSS clinic serves adult clients who have suffered some type of acquired neurological damage. Common diagnoses may include stroke, traumatic brain injury or progressive neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis.

Specialized small group intervention programs are also offered for clients with chronic long-term communication impairments. Clinicians and clients in the STEPSS program hold an "end of the semester" potluck luncheon each semester. This luncheon provides an opportunity for the CSD faculty and staff to interact with the STEPSS clients and their families. It also offers an opportunity for clinicians to meet STEPSS clients before the start of the winter and spring/summer terms. Our group sessions are designed to address the needs of clients at varying levels of communication recovery.

The STEPSS program serves approximately 40 to 50 adult clients each semester.

Hours

This clinic is scheduled on Mondays and Wednesdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Appointments are scheduled on the hour and are 50 minutes in duration. Large group sessions are offered on Wednesdays.

Client and family information

• Fees/insurance

  The WSU Speech and Language Clinics do not participate in any insurance programs. Fees are based on a semester schedule (one fee for the entire semester).

  Scholarship programs are available but financial documentation will be required for scholarship assistance.

  Clients and their families should always use their insurance benefits if speech-language services are a covered benefit. We can direct families to local agencies that may participate in their insurance plan. Billing is distributed once each semester. Timely payment of fees is a consideration for scheduling clients for subsequent semesters.

• Discharge from therapy

  The expected duration of intervention services may range from a single semester of therapy to several years of treatment. Many factors impact the duration of the services we provide.

  Family conferences are offered at a minimum of one to two times each semester and families will be informed of discharge plans approximately one semester in advance of the anticipated discharge. This rule is not observed in cases when discharge is due to inconsistent attendance or failure to make timely payments for therapy.

  Group maintenance programs are sometimes offered in our STEPSS Program when individual therapy is no longer warranted.

• Client survey results

  Year	Survey
  Spring/summer 2014	Parent Education Program (PEP)
  Spring/summer 2014	PLAY Client
  Spring/summer 2013	General Outpatient Client
  Spring/summer 2013	STEPSS Client
  Spring/summer 2013	PLAY Client
  Fall 2012	General Outpatient Client
  Fall 2012	STEPSS Client

• Cancellations

  Please contact the supervisor's office if you need to cancel a scheduled appointment at 313-993-7430.

  Note: Frequent cancellations may result in a loss of service for your family member. Consistent attendance is required to meet the goals of our clinics. We cannot "hold" a schedule for extended vacations, illness or hospitalizations.

• Parking

  Street parking

  The Speech and Language Clinics are located in the Rands House building directly across the street from the Detroit Public Library/Cass Ave. entrance. There are parking meters on both sides of the street and on adjacent side streets.

  Parking Structure

  Use Parking Structure #6 on Putnam Street (about a five-minute walk) which is across and down the street from our building (located on the south side of the Detroit Public Library). If you use Parking Structure #6, use the visitor entrance closest to Woodward Ave.

  Parking for the Parking Structure# 6 is $2 (first 20 minutes or fraction of) and $1 for each additional 20 minutes or fraction of. The maximum fee is $12.

  You will enter the Rands House on the south side of the building. This is an accessible entrance. Please take the elevator to the second floor and follow the signs to the waiting room.

   

Complaints

Clients are afforded an opportunity to complete a client survey form once or twice each year to provide us with feedback. Family conferences are offered one to two times each semester to all families. This provides an additional opportunity to express concerns as they arise. A suggestion box is available in room 109 and clients and families may leave written suggestions in that box.

Non-discrimination policy

Wayne State University (WSU) is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity in all of its operations, employment status, educational programs and related activities. As part of WSU, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders adheres to this same policy for faculty and students as well as for clients of the department's clinics. Students, faculty, staff and persons served in the department's clinics are treated in a nondiscriminatory manner that is, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national or ethnic origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship or status as a covered veteran.