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Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders
About the Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders
The Lebanon Valley College Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders is a free clinic available to children and adults with communication and swallowing disorders. Evaluations and interventions are provided by graduate student clinicians who are supervised by highly trained clinical educators with years of clinical experience. The speech-language pathology faculty and clinical educators work closely with graduate student clinicians to create treatment plans that use evidence-based practices.
What Can Students Expect?
The LVC Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders provides graduate speech-language pathology (SLP) students opportunities to evaluate and treat individuals under the direct supervision of ASHA-certified speech-language pathologists and an audiologist. With assistance from the clinical educators, SLP students will select and administer appropriate diagnostic tools, determine realistic and appropriate plans of treatment, and provide intervention services to clients in our center. Clinical educators will provide supervision to the SLP students as required by CFCC guidelines.
Department’s Mission
The mission of the Communication Sciences and Disorders/Speech-Language Pathology (CSD/SLP) program at Lebanon Valley College is to support the critical thinking and reflective capacity of our students through closely mentored relationships which enable all students to grow to their potential. This departmental mission aligns with the student-centered mission of Lebanon Valley College that embraces differences and seeks to empower students with a professional education based upon the liberal arts. We believe in the mission of the College to provide immersive learning experiences that will aid in the development of analytical decision-making skills using reflective practice and evidence-based approaches. We educate students to be clinically and culturally competent clinicians that serve the diverse needs of people with communication and swallowing disorders. The rigorous curriculum offers courses to help students think critically and comply with ethical standards expected by those holding the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Certificate of Clinical Competence. We encourage the students to pursue citizenship and lifelong learning.
The Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders is a free clinic and does not require insurance.
Clinic Days & Contact Info
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Appointment times will vary by semester. Therapy sessions will run in the fall, spring, and early summer and follow the LVC Academic Calendar.
120 Heisey Road, Annville, Pa. 17003
Fax: 717-867-6647
Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic Resources
Summer 2025 Community Groups
LVC’s Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders offers community members of all ages and levels opportunities to learn, bond, and grow. The programs include those endorsed by national bodies and many created by SLP faculty and students.
Summer 2025 Dates: Tuesday, May 13, through Monday, June 30.
Email slpclinic@lvc.edu for more information.
The sessions will focus on participating in social activities with other AAC users.
- Tuesdays, 4:15 p.m. (child)
- Wednesdays, 6 p.m. (adult)
This group is designed for individuals recovering from brain injury who are working on improving higher-level cognitive-linguistic skills. Sessions focus on executive functioning, problem-solving, reasoning, memory strategies, and social-pragmatic communication to enhance daily interactions and independence. Through structured activities, group discussions, and real-world simulations, participants will strengthen cognitive flexibility, organization, and self-regulation in a supportive environment.
- Thursdays, 6 p.m.
Our Adventurous Eaters Group will explore summer vegetables and being brave eaters. Come join us in creating food crafts and cooking activities!
- Tuesdays, 5–5:50 p.m.
Do you have difficulty speaking following your stroke? Come practice speaking in a fun and safe environment! Learn alternative communication strategies. Be encouraged by other with aphasia.
- Mondays, 1:30–3 p.m.
The sessions will focus on improving expressive language for children through fun activities to increase descriptive and narrative skills.
- K–2nd grade: Wednesdays, 6–6:50 p.m.
Our group is specially designed for children who want to build confidence and ease in their communication skills. Children will learn various strategies and techniques to enhance their speech fluency through fun games, activities, and role-playing exercises. They will practice using these strategies in real-life situations, empowering them to speak more smoothly and confidently.
- Wednesdays, 5 p.m.
The 45-minute sessions will provide direct and explicit instruction on phonemic awareness utilizing the LiPS program with children currently in kindergarten who are struggling with reading and writing. Participants will use phonemic awareness skills with literacy tasks of reading and writing.
- Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., OR 4:30 p.m.
The sessions will provide training to caregivers in book sharing for 2–4-year-old children to expand participants’ early language literacy, play, and social development.
- Wednesdays, 6 p.m.
Social groups combine discussions, lessons, activities, and games to encourage social interaction for individuals 3 years of age and older. Our graduate clinicians will provide focused lessons related to pragmatic language and executive functions.
- Ages 3-10: Tuesdays, 6–7 p.m.
- Ages 11+ and adults: Tuesdays, 7–8 p.m.
These small group sessions will focus on speech sound productions using direct instruction with evidence-based approaches.
- Ages 6-8 and 11+: Mondays, 5–5:50 p.m. OR 6–6:50 p.m.
- Ages 4-5 and 9-11: Tuesdays, 5–5:50 p.m. OR 6–6:50 p.m.
The Weekly SPEAK OUT! Group will meet once per week. The focus of these sessions is the maintenance of skills learned during SPEAK OUT! training and is also a source of socialization for its members.
- Thursdays, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
SPEAK OUT! & LOUD Crowd
SPEAK OUT! is a therapy program designed for people with Parkinson’s disease to improve their speech and voicing. This improvement in speech and voice also has a positive impact on swallow function. The focus of this program is to make speech intentional.
Clinic Director
Mindy Nguyen, M.S., CCC/SLP is an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist who also holds a Pennsylvania license and K–12 teaching certification. She joined LVC after 20 years as a speech-language pathologist in an area school district where she specialized in Childhood Apraxia of speech, Autism, and language disorders. Before working with school-aged children, Nguyen worked on a traumatic brain injury unit at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
LVC on Good Day PA
Lebanon Valley College recently opened a free clinic for children and adults with communication and swallowing disorders. Learn about the center from two LVC speech-language pathologists.
