About The Clinic

  1. The University of New Mexico Speech-Language-Hearing Center (UNMSLHC) offers audiology and speech services to the general public.  Clinical services are provided by graduate students under direct supervision of licensed American Speech-Language Hearing Association-certified clinical instructors, with expertise in hearing, speech, language, feeding/swallowing, stuttering/fluency, voice, and early childhood communication.
  2. At the UNMSLHC, clients include all age groups, from infants to older adults.  The Center provides a range of services including accent modification, aphasia, apraxia of speech, articulation, aural rehabilitation, autism spectrum disorders, brain injury rehabilitation, dysarthria due to a variety of neurological disorders, dysphagia/swallowing, language delay, social pragmatic skills, stuttering, voice, and voice and communication therapy for clients who are transgender or transsexual.
  3. The security and privacy of clinical records is protected by professional ethics (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) and federal legislation (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-HIPAA). The UNM Speech-Language-Hearing Center is bound by ethics and law to adhere to HIPAA Policies and Practices. All members of the UNM Speech and Hearing Sciences Department must comply with HIPAA Policies and Practices. Reporting of information loss is to be filed using the incident report/information loss form.
  4. The UNM Speech-Language-Hearing Center adheres to the UNM policy regarding equal opportunity, which forbids unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, sex, sexual preference, ancestry, veteran status, gentic information or medical condition.
  5. Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Services
  6. A focus of our training program is to prepare students in speech-language pathology to address the needs of clients/patients who are bilingual and/or from culturally diverse backgrounds. Our clinic provides services to bilingual clients of all ages.