Sir Alexander Ewing-Ithaca College Speech and Hearing Clinic

The Sir Alexander Ewing-Ithaca College Speech and Hearing Clinic is a community-focused clinic offering free speech-language pathology and audiology services. Faculty and students work together under supervision to provide care tailored to each client’s needs. The clinic serves both adults and children with communication needs of all kinds. It combines hands-on training for students with compassionate support for the community.
A student clinician works with a patient in the lab

Our Services

The Sir Alexander Ewing-Ithaca College Speech and Hearing Clinic provides a wide range of services for clients of all ages. Our team of faculty and students works under supervision to provide personalized care for every client.

Speech: 

  • Therapy to improve speech sounds or modify accents. Conditions include articulation disorders, apraxia, and accent modification. This helps clients speak clearly and confidently.

Fluency

  • Support for smooth, natural speech, commonly for children and adults who stutter. Therapy makes speaking easier and less stressful.

Voice

  • Therapy for pitch, volume, and vocal quality. This can include hoarseness, strain, or gender-affirming voice work. It improves vocal health and confidence.

LANGUAGE

  • Support for understanding and expressing language. Conditions include language delays, aphasia, and learning-related difficulties. Therapy helps clients communicate effectively at home, school, or work.

Hearing

  • Evaluation and support for listening and understanding speech. This helps clients with hearing loss or auditory processing difficulties participate fully in daily life.

Cognitive Communication

  • Therapy for attention, memory, problem-solving, and thinking skills. This often helps people recovering from stroke, brain injury, or with dementia, and can greatly improve independence and quality of life.

Social Communication

  • Support for social interaction, conversation skills, and understanding social cues. This often helps children, teens, and adults with autism or social-pragmatic difficulties to build stronger relationships and confidence.

Alternative Communication

  • Support for people who use alternative methods to communicate, including AAC devices, speech-generating apps, or picture boards. This helps clients of all ages communicate effectively and participate fully in daily life.

Services are provided by graduate and advanced undergraduate students under the guidance of faculty who are nationally certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), ensuring expert supervision and high-quality care.

PUTTING LEARNING INTO PRACTICE

At the Sir Alexander Ewing-Ithaca College Speech and Hearing Clinic, services are delivered by graduate and advanced undergraduate students who work closely under the supervision of experienced, ASHA-certified faculty. This hands-on training gives students the opportunity to apply classroom knowledge in real clinical settings, developing their skills in assessment, therapy, and client interaction. Faculty members guide every step of the process, ensuring high-quality care for clients while fostering a supportive learning environment.

See how our clinic gives students hands-on experience, allowing them to practice speech-language pathology and audiology skills with real clients in a supportive clinic setting:

Clinic Hours and Operations

The Sir Alexander Ewing–Ithaca College Speech and Hearing Clinic operates during the academic year, January through May and September through December.

Academic Year Hours:

  • Monday & Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

  • Tuesday & Thursday: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

  • Friday: Available by special arrangement

Summer Session: A limited summer session is offered in June and early July. The clinic is closed in mid-July and throughout August.

The clinic follows the Ithaca City School District’s weather-related cancellation schedule.

As a free, student-run clinic, we strive to respond to calls and emails as quickly as possible; however, response times may be slightly longer during busy periods.

Additional Information

Below is key information for prospective clients, including eligibility, referrals, session schedules, location, parking, and how to get started. All services are free.

The Sir Alexander Ewing-Ithaca College Speech and Hearing Clinic provides diagnostic assessment and treatment services for children and adults throughout the Ithaca community who have a wide range of speech and language concerns, including articulation, language, hearing, voice, and fluency.

The clinic also supports school-age children who experience difficulties in language and literacy, including listening, phonemic awareness, spelling, reading comprehension, and writing.

Student clinicians provide supervised outreach services to preschools and schools in the area.

During the Ithaca College academic year, therapy is offered in weekly 50-minute sessions. Sessions may be individual or small group, based on client needs. Therapy schedules are completed before the start of each semester, and evaluations are scheduled throughout the academic year.

Clients may be referred to the clinic by families, other clinics, physicians, social workers, teachers, or community speech-language pathologists, though referrals are not required.

The clinic provides all services free of charge, regardless of insurance coverage. Individuals are considered for services following submission of the appointment request form. They are then added to our waiting list, and appointments are offered to clients based on our current capacity and the educational needs of our students. 

Client parking is available directly outside the clinic inParking Lot F. You will receive a parking pass at your first session to hang in your windshield during that and subsequent appointments. If you receive a ticket in error, notify your clinic supervisor.

To learn more about obtaining services with our clinic, please call (607) 274-3753 or email ewingclinic@ithaca.edu.

Our Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

The Ithaca College Speech and Hearing Clinic does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or genetic information.

Contact

Any person or agency may initiate a request for services.


202 Smiddy Hall
Ithaca College
953 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY 14850

Fax: (607) 274-3753

(607) 274-3714