Clinical Opportunities

The communication sciences and disorders department at SUNY Plattsburgh offers an extensive range of clinical opportunities to students with a national and international focus.

Your clinical practicum will start in our on-site clinic in your very first semester. By the time you graduate, you will have a broad range of clinical experiences in a variety of settings, and you will be prepared to work in any clinical fellowship position you choose.

Our students have exclusive use of:

iPads
In-room computers loaded with clinical software
Access to comprehensive assessment library
Extensive supply of therapy materials for all ages

On-Site Clinic — SUNY Plattsburgh Speech & Hearing Center
You will work in our clinic, supervised by the same professors that teach you in the classroom. This means that there is continuity between your academic and clinical learning, which helps you to apply your knowledge from the classroom into your clinical work.

Our clinic caters to a wide range of client groups, both adult and pediatric, in a variety of service delivery models.
- Preschool/early-intervention clients
- Alzheimer/memory group
- Stuttering group
- Adult neurogenic communication group
- Aphasia group
- Community preschool and adult screenings
- Audiology clinical experience
- Gender spectrum voice clinic
- Voice evaluations
- Accent modification
- Hospital rotations
Our on-site clinic offers students an opportunity to gain experience in each range of practice. That is, speech, language, swallowing, voice, hearing, alternative and augmentative communication, accent reduction and stuttering.

More information about the Speech & Hearing Center
Externship Opportunities

Your final semester will be spent off campus on your externship placement. This is where you will learn to take on a clinical caseload to prepare you for working life beyond graduation. We place our students all over the USA and even in Canada!