Evergreen Speech and Hearing Clinic

September 8 is an international celebration campaign on literacy. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced this vacation in 1964. Throughout the year UNESCO strives to make literacy capacity an important part of domestic, regional and international agenda. Through the literacy program, UNESCO aims to create a world that can read and write and promote literacy abilities for all people.

Today, one in 5 adults (about 796 million people) does not have the minimum literacy ability, two-thirds are women. There are 67.4 million children who lack fundamental education fundamentals despite not attending school in the world.

"Literacy skills are human rights, tools for personal empowerment, a means of social and human development, educational opportunities depend on cultural literacy.

Literacy is the center of basic education for all people, it is essential for eradicating poverty, reducing child mortality, restraining population growth, achieving gender equality, sustainable development, ensuring peace and democracy. Literacy is the center of education (EFA) for all, and there is a just good reason.

With high quality basic education, students can acquire lifelong reading and writing skills and further learning skills, and culturally motivated parents are more likely to bring their children to school. . "

We invite you to celebrate this international conscious day by reading your children, visiting the library, and spending time donating books! If you are looking for a way to give back to the community, we will send you a book or time to Page Ahead a local nonprofit reader, who distributed their 2 million books to the children you are in need of We encourage you to donate!

Teresa L. Wolfe, MS, CCC - SLP is a clinical professor of linguist pathology at the University of Memphis. She has a certificate of clinical ability from the American Language Hearing Association. Her areas of clinical interest include collaboration with sounds, pronunciation, and cultural and linguistically diverse people. She introduces the theme of working with interpreters nationwide and is a coauthor of several journal publications. She is currently a collaborator funded by the Ministry of Education in the United States and focuses on the development of graduate students working with interpreters in the field of language pathology.

The GU Listening & Speech Center is part of the HSLS department and is an education and training clinic. Services are provided primarily by graduate students supervised by official language pathologists and audiologists. Services from certified clinical staff with expertise in auditory rehabilitation, speech, aphasia and cognitive communication, cochlear implants, balance and auditory processing, listening, language and communication expertise are also available. Gallaudette used to be a graduate of hearing impaired or hearing impaired. One of our missions is to make hearing and language science experts as convenient as possible for hearing impaired and hearing impaired. Gallaudet 's graduates have opened up new perspectives of hearing and conducted pathological studies on hearing, language and linguistic science. Regardless of the hearing state, all students follow the same standards and requirements.