Local Paralympian to Encourage Campers

WHAT: Local Paralympic athlete Matt Brown will visit school-age children from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences’ Listen Up Club.


WHEN:  3:30 p.m., Thursday (July 19)


WHERE:  TTUHSC Speech and Hearing Clinic, 3601 4th St. Room 2A300


EVENT:  Brown, who will compete in the London 2012 Paralympics in the discus event, will encourage the Listen Up Club participants to reach for their goals and persevere through obstacles. He will also sign autographs, teach students about the discus event and award medals.


 The TTUHSC School of Allied Health Sciences’ speech and language camps are designed for children ages 3 to 12 with various types of speech, language and learning disabilities. The Listen Up Club focuses on listening and auditory processing skills.


 Children participate in individual and group speech-language therapy activities while enjoying field trips, socialization and hands-on crafts, projects and experiments. Programs are coordinated and supervised by faculty speech-language pathologists in the TTUHSC Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. Current first- and second-year graduate students in the department provide speech and language therapy.


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