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During the Summer 2017 semester, the Communication Disorders (CD) Program will be hosting a summer camp for 2^nd - 4th grade students at EKU’s Perkins Conference Center.  The purpose of “Word Detective Camp” was to improve students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

Under the direction of 

Kellie C. Ellis, Ph.D., CCC/SLP is an Associate Professor and the Communication Disorders Program Coordinator at Eastern Kentucky University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in language intervention and assessment, articulation and phonological disorders, and research methods.

Graduate students in the Communication Disorders program at EKU are partnering with a local preschool to provide speech-language-hearing screenings and classroom based intervention services.  After completing the speech-language-hearing screenings, graduate students planned whole-group lessons targeting the specific deficits found on the screenings.