CSS Speech & Language Services
Communication Studies and Services
Speech and Language Services
Overview
The NTID CSS Speech & Language Center is located in Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall, Building 60, Room 3225. If you would like to request speech-language instruction, or would like an invitation to join a weekly communication group, you may sign up using the online form (RIT login required). You may also sign up in person in the Speech & Language Center (LBJ-Room 3225) or at the staff assistant’s desk (LBJ-3850).
Services
Services in the Speech & Language Center are:
- Accessible
- Individualized
- Fun
Instruction Opportunities
The Speech & Language Center is the place to come for communication instruction and activities.
The Communication Studies and Services department provides an array of communication-enhancing experiences that are designed to address your needs and requests. Instructional activities take place in the Speech & Language Center, LBJ Room 3225, an exciting student-centered facility created with your needs in mind. The friendly and supportive atmosphere in the Speech & Language Center will allow you to build confidence using spoken communication. If you prefer to meet remotely, you may also choose to schedule online meetings with your speech-language instructor.
You can schedule weekly appointments for individual speech-language instruction to help you improve your general communication skills as well as job-related communication skills. You’ll have input into establishing goals, setting priorities, selecting activities and measuring your progress. You’ll also have access to computer software programs and mobile applications that provide visual and auditory feedback during instruction.
You can get instruction and practice in:
- Producing sounds that will help improve spoken communication
- Improving vocal quality
- Improving pronunciation
- Using general and technical vocabulary
- Improving grammar in speech
- Practicing conversational skills
- Using communication strategies
- Preparing for job interviews and learning interview techniques
- Accessing current mobile applications on tablet devices to learn independent practice strategies
The CSS Department also hosts several communication groups each week in the Speech & Language Center as well as online to provide a place for you to gather informally and discuss various topics including current events, job interview practice, and communication apps and technology.
Speech-Language Forms
- Speech-Language Services Sign-Up
RIT login required
Speech & Language Center Hours
Speech-Language and Communication Instruction is available Monday – Friday during the RIT Fall and Spring academic semesters, by appointment only.
To request an appointment: Speech-Language Services Sign-Up.
Hours are subject to change during special RIT events, final exam weeks, and break weeks.
Check here to verify RIT breaks and semester dates: https://www.rit.edu/calendar.
Information for Speech-Language Professionals
Speech and Language Professionals Resource (SLPros)
The SLPros site provides information, training, and interactive practice in the following areas:
Sample Case Studies
Case Studies feature students who have enrolled in individual speech-language instruction at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). The focus varies so that readers see the scope of instruction provided at NTID and the diversity of students accessing clinical services.
Assessment
The key to effective intervention is competent and thorough assessment. We focus on spoken English assessment, including segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech, as well as the phonological, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic/social components. Assessment methods include: perceptual, acoustic, and linguistic analyses of spoken utterances, self-reports of communication effectiveness and confidence, and exploration of the pragmatic/social dimensions of communication.
Instruction
Instruction is tailored to maximize each individual students' success. Defining success and establishing goals to achieve it involves collaboration. Together the instructor and student review assessment information and decide on the most appropriate instructional focus. This focus may be narrow or may extend across the range of phonologic, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic/social aspects of communication competence and confidence in academic, social, and career contexts. Instructional decisions should be monitored and reviewed on an ongoing basis, especially as they relate to student motivation.
Interactive Learning
This self-instructional module describes and illustrates parameters that may be assessed and provides practice and evaluation exercises to promote the development of assessment knowledge and skills. This module is set up with three parts: training, practice, and evaluation.
