The Speech & Language Clinic
Speech & Language Clinic (SLC) is a private speech and language clinic led by Professor Dr. Dalia Mostafa Osman, M.D. Phoniatrics, ASHA CCC SLP. SLC offers an environment that prepares students and adults to a successful life; each within his own potential. At SLC, bilingual services (in both English & Arabic) are provided to help adults and children having communication problems and associated difficulties overcome their difficulties and lead a better life.
Our Vision
To be recognized as an efficient speech and language clinic according to the national, regional and international standards to use evidence-based practice in advocacy, assessment, treatment, and inclusion of children adults with communication difficulties.
Our Mission
- Promoting the health and quality of life of patients with communication disorders by providing them with proper patient-centered rehabilitation programs.
- Imposing effective culture-oriented contribution to the catchable / reachable community.
- Improving the quality of evidence-based services available for adults and children having communication disorders.
Latest Services
Inadequate or inappropriate pragmatics / social communication skills constitute a significant component of language disorders. Pragmatics in children with language disorders may be inadequate or even...
SPEECH SOUNDS ERRORS: ARTICULATORY-PHONOLOGICAL DISORDERS Clear communication with others can be disrupted by one or more variables that can make a child misunderstood by members of his speech...
CENTRAL AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDERS (CAPD): Some children have central auditory processing difficulties despite their intact peripheral hearing. This can, in turn, affect their ability to follow in...
Speech and language acquisition and development require certain pre-requisites including intact sensory channels particularly auditory ones, intact central processing areas in the brain, adequate cogn...
Latest Article
TYPES OF MEMORY: Sensory Memory: lasts for milliseconds Working Memory Long Term Memory: last for decades SENSORY MEMORY Information flows from the outside world through our sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch sensors. The iconic memory is responsible for visual information The echoic memory is responsible for auditory information Sensory memory does not process information It is similar to input devices of the computer It can receive large bits of information WORKING MEMORY Working memory depends on paid attention. It retains a piece of information and lasts for less than a minute and retrieves it during this time....