Clinics

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The Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic offers therapy services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families experiencing wide varieties of issues relating to individual, couple, and family harmony. Groups and workshops are also available. Please call 516 463-5234 for a listing of times available. The focus is on empowerment and exploration- one that encourages persons to develop effective ways of accomplishing satisfying relationships.

The MFT Clinic is staffed by experienced supervising psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and senior graduate students in the Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Programs who are also available as speakers.

Low cost fees enable the Clinic to provide important marriage and family therapy services to the surrounding community. Scholarships may be available for clients who normally would be unable to afford these services.

The Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic is located in the Joan and Arnold Saltzman Community Services Center on the South campus. Created in 1990, the Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic is an integral part of the Department of Health Professions and Family Studies in the School of Education and Allied Human Services.

The Clinic is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

PERC offers diagnostic, counseling and therapy services to children, adolescents, adults and families exhibiting a wide variety of problems related to learning, job performance, personal adjustment, stress and family harmony. The Clinic is staffed by supervising psychologists and graduate students in the clinical and school psychology and school/community psychology doctoral programs.

Low cost fees enable the Clinic to provide important psychological services to the Long Island community. The Lynn Ann Motta Scholarship Fund has been established to provide psychological evaluations and psychotherapy services for patients who normally would be unable to afford these services. The clinic is also engaged in state of the art research in psychological assessment and psychotherapeutic intervention.

The Clinic is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is located in the Saltzman Community Services Center.

The Clinic is located in Saltzman Community Services Center, provides child-friendly, professional reading and writing evaluations. The evaluation culminates with the development of a literacy profile which provides a detailed appraisal of a learner’s reading and writing strengths. The profile is useful for parents and teachers who wish to understand how a learner makes use of reading strategies and how he/she uses literacy to solve problems. The profile is also helpful when advocating for a learner is necessary in the education decision-making process. The Reading/Writing Learning Clinic also provides a variety of reading and writing courses designed to foster and support literacy growth and to build confidence in a learner’s reading and writing abilities. Services are provided directly by New York State certified literacy specialists, for children, adolescents and adults. Graduate students serve as interns at the Clinic to fulfill practica requirements.

The Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is administered by the department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and provides screening, diagnostic, therapeutic, counseling, and referral services to individuals from infancy through geriatric years. Services are provided to individuals and/or groups of children, adolescents and adults who exhibit a wide range of speech, language and other communicative disorders examples include language-learning disabilities, pragmatic language disorders, voice disorders, fluency disorders, aphasia and other neurogenic disorders, motor speech disorders, and hearing impairment. Comprehensive audiological services include hearing evaluation including central auditory processing, hearing-aid evaluation and dispensing. Aural rehabilitation programs are available.

Low cost services of the Clinic are available to students, faculty and staff from the Hofstra community, and to the community at large. Self-referrals, referrals from faculty and off-campus professionals are welcome. The Clinic is staffed by certified and licensed Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists. Our clinicians provide direct supervision to graduate students who are working toward fulfilling their clinical and academic requirements for certification and licensure.

The Clinic is located in the Saltzman Community Services Center, and is open daily from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Evenings hours (up to 8 p.m.) and Saturday morning hours may be arranged. Please call (516) 463-5656 for further information.