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Kay Armstead Center for Communicative Disorders (KACCD)

The Kay Armstead Center for Communicative Disorders (KACCD) is a non-profit community clinic that has been serving the needs of individuals of all ages, demonstrating a wide variety of speech, language and hearing difficulties and differences, for over fifty years.

The Kay Armstead Center for Communication Disorders is housed within the CDS Department and has a threefold purpose:

  1. to provide a quality clinical education for undergraduate CDS students and graduate Speech-Language Pathology students;
  2. to serve the needs of children and adults with communication and related disorders and differences in San José and the surrounding area; and,
  3. to anchor CDS faculty and students' innovative, clinical research in communication and related disorders.

To this end, the KACCD Clinic offers a full range of clinical services that address pressing community needs. Clinical services are available to people with developmental or acquired communication disorders.

At KACCD, graduate students evaluate and treat clients with various communication disorders under the direct supervision of speech-language pathologists certified by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and licensed in the state of California. Each semester, the clinic provides speech, language, hearing and some swallowing services to hundreds of children and adults from the Bay Area. Further, student clinicians and faculty participate in numerous community outreach activities, such as speech, language, and hearing screenings for preschool children; wellness fairs for  adults; and advocacy activities. Student clinicians in KACCD provide services in specialty areas such as augmentative and alternative communication, aphasia, voice, fluency, and swallowing.

The Kay Armstead Center for Communicative Disorders (KACCD) is committed to providing accessible, equitable services. SJSU, the Lurie College, the CDS Department, and KACCD do not discriminate in the delivery of professional services or the conduct of research and scholarly activity based on age, citizenship, disability, race, ethnicity, gender or gender-identity, marital status, national origin, physical characteristics, religion, sexual orientation, and veteran status.

Clinical Services

Prevention

This clinic offers speech, language, and hearing screenings to help identify potential concerns early and support prevention. Screenings are brief and designed to determine whether a more comprehensive evaluation may be beneficial. Areas of screening include speech, language, and hearing.

Evaluation

The KACCD Clinic provides comprehensive communication evaluations for individuals with a wide range of concerns. Each assessment includes a detailed written report and typically lasts 2–3 hours. Areas of evaluation include accent modification, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), fluency, language, speech sound disorders, voice disorders, and voice feminization or masculinization.

Adult Clinic for Neurogenic Speech, Language, Cognitive, and Swallowing Disorders

This clinic serves adults who have experienced stroke, traumatic brain injury, or degenerative neurological disease. Clients have access to screening and evaluation of communication, cognitive, and swallowing disorders, as well as individual and group therapy. Services may be provided in person or via telepractice to support accessibility and continuity of care. The Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program (ICAP) is offered via telepractice, providing an intensive, structured approach to aphasia rehabilitation.

The adult clinic also features the Spartan Aphasia Research Clinic (SPARC), which follows a Life Participation approach to aphasia therapy. SPARC offers individual or dyad therapy, conversation coaching groups, an aphasia-friendly book club, and an aphasia choir.

Adult Language Clinic

The adult language clinic at Kay Armstead Center for Communicative Disorders (KACCD) provides support to adult clients with communication delays resulting from autism, Down syndrome, intellectual disabilities and various other developmental disorders.  Sessions involve the clients in structured one to one and group activities focused on functional communication and social skills on campus and in the community.

AAC Clinic

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) includes all forms of communication (other than oral speech) that are used to express thoughts, needs, wants, and ideas. Some individuals who have difficulty speaking may require an extensive evaluation to identify an appropriate AAC system that meets their communication needs. We evaluate and provide intervention to help individuals develop the ability to operate and access their AAC system, develop language through alternative means, and navigate conversations while using an alternative means of communication.

Pediatric Clinic

The KACCD Child Speech and Language Clinic provides high quality clinical services to children from ages 2-18, presenting with a wide range of communication disorders. Our program offers individual and small group intervention for children with challenges which may include speech sound articulation, language understanding or use, social communication and the use of augmentative/alternative communication systems.

Intervention focuses on offering motivating and success-oriented activities to actively engage our clients in learning and demonstration of the identified target skills. Our students are supported in providing multiple and varied opportunities to address target skills, resulting in a systematic and thorough approach for supported learning and practice, building understanding and confidence.

Stuttering Clinic

This clinic provides therapeutic services for children, teens, and adults who stutter. Therapy addresses speech fluency along with the social, emotional, educational, and/or occupational impacts of stuttering. The clinic implements a variety of evidence-based contemporary therapy approaches and device-assisted therapy. Services may include individual and/or group therapy based on the client's needs. 

Transgender Voice Clinic (Virtual)

This clinic provides gender affirmation voice and communication services, including feminizing or masculinizing voice, speech, and communication styles to match the individual's gender identity. The Voice Clinic is equipped with advanced technology to provide precise and timely biofeedback to support individual needs. Services are primarily individual sessions, with occasional group sessions as appropriate. 

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