Raider Red Supports Tech PALS
WHAT: Raider Red will help cheer on children participating in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Allied Health Sciences’ annual Tech PALS summer language camp.
WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. July 14 (Thursday)
WHERE: Texas Tech Physicians Medical Pavilion, 3601 Fourth St.
EVENT: Tech PALS provides opportunities for school-age children with autism or other social language difficulties to interact with peers and develop valuable social language skills including those needed for play, conversation, non-verbal communication, perspective taking and humor.
This year’s Tech PALS camp theme is sportsmanship. Raider Red will join campers and camp supervisors in the courtyard of the Texas Tech Physicians Medical Pavilion on the last day of the program.
For more information about Tech PALS and other speech and language camps at TTUHSC, contact Hesper Holland, M.S., CCC-SLP, at (806) 283-1456 or email hesper.holland@ttuhsc.edu; or Carolyn Perry, M.S., CCC-SLP, at (806) 743-5660 ext. 233 or email carolyn.perry@ttuhsc.edu.
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