Helping people communicate through world-class education, research, treatment, and outreach.
Outstanding Education
Our nationally and internationally recognized faculty educate incoming students to become clinicians, scientists, and teachers of the future. Our top-ranked programs in speech-language pathology and audiology offer a variety of didactic and hands-on educational opportunities, so graduates are fully prepared for the rigors of the profession.
Real-world Research
Our faculty perform cutting-edge research that has clear health relevance. Faculty have been issued patents, created spin-off companies, and developed technology that benefits people in Wisconsin and the nation.
Comprehensive and Affordable Clinical Care
Our faculty and staff run the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic, which offers evaluation and treatment of communication disorders. The clinic serves Wisconsin residents across the lifespan, and offers low-cost services and partial scholarships for individuals and families in need.
Community Outreach
Our faculty and students provide outreach services and consulting, often at no cost, to families, school systems, and other organizations in need.
News & Events
Department News
Michelle Ciucci Selected for UW Exceptional Service Award
Congratulations to Michelle Ciucci, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, for being selected for a 2020 UW Exceptional Service Award. In addition to her high level of research and teaching activities, Michelle’s work on program review and accreditation, as …
Faculty and Students Move to Online Instruction
This week, UWSHC clinical professors met with our speech-language and audiology graduate students remotely via WebEx. This amazing and resilient group of students is continuing their clinical education virtually.
Emily Lorang Selected for the 2020 CAPCSD Ph.D. Scholarship
Congratulations to Emily Lorang, M.S., CCC-SLP, for being selected for the 2020 CAPCSD Ph.D. Scholarship. The Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD) scholarship program is for students pursuing a research doctoral …
First Year MS-SLP Student Elizabeth Evans Wins Best Poster Award
Elizabeth Evans, first-year graduate student in Communication Sciences and Disorders, won the Best Graduate Student Poster Award at the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Research Day. Held at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, there …
Rebecca Willer Receives WSHA 2020 Student Leadership Award
The Wisconsin Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Association (WSHA) has awarded Rebecca Willer the 2020 Student Leadership Award. Rebecca is a Graduate Student Clinician at University of Wisconsin – Madison. The WSHA Student Leadership Award recognizes …
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Department Events
Cancelled – Day of the Badger
Cancelled – Hearing and Donuts (Brain and Bagels) Seminar
Hearing and Donuts (Brain and Bagels) Seminar
Prosem Lecture: TBA
Cancelled – Dogs on Call
Student Advising
Undergraduate Advising – General Session (Starfish)
Undergraduate Advising – General Session (Starfish)
Featured Initiatives
Audiology Takes on Rural Noise
UWSHC audiologists and Au.D. students travel to rural Wisconsin each summer for a unique goal: to prevent hearing loss at the Tomah Truck and Tractor Pull. Tractor pulls are motorsports with powerful, modified engines, and they are LOUD!
Reach Dane
The UWSHC provides the hearing and middle ear screenings for over 1,000 children who attend Reach Dane each year. The clinic also provides speech and language screenings for children whose teachers have identified speech or language concerns.
WISHES Program
The Wisconsin Infant and Children’s Statewide Hearing program provides hearing instruments for a six month period to newly identified deaf and hard of hearing children who are not Medicaid eligible and don't have other hearing aid insurance coverage.
We Welcome Everyone
We support the equal treatment of all people. No individual shall be discriminated against based upon race or ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, sex, gender identity, ability, or sexual orientation.