UNT Speech & Hearing Center

Summer 2025 Speech Camps are now available for registration!

• Adventures with AAC and Caregiver Coaching
  • This group will focus on socialization with similar aged peers who utilize augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Participants will have the opportunity to build meaningful and effective conversations through practice with peers. Optional caregiver education will be provided at the same time as a separate group. Attendees need to currently use and have
    possession of personal AAC systems, be independent with toileting, and be able to safely participate in and attend the group activities. Documentation of current skill level through
    most recent evaluation and treatment goals is required.
• Articulation Bootcamp
  • Children will participate in individual and group speech therapy activities while enjoying socialization, hands-on crafts, projects, and games. Camps will be coordinated and supervised by staff speech-language pathologists in the UNT ASLP Department. Speech therapy will be provided by current first- and second year graduate students in the department. Attendees must be independent with toileting and other self-management skills
    and have a documented articulation disorder from school or other speech therapist. They will also attend a baseline appointment prior to their camp.
• Eagle Eat
  • Kids aged 5–8 will bring in their own lunch and work with supervising speech-language
    pathologists and graduate students to build confidence around eating. Through peer interactions, sensory strategies, and food play, children will explore new textures, tastes, and smells in a pressure free environment.
• Eagle Express
  • This camp combines STEM activities, literacy-building exercises, gross motor games, and individual therapy to help kids strengthen their communication skills. Each day is filled with hands-on projects, reading adventures, and group activities designed to support language development. Camps will be coordinated and supervised by staff speech-language pathologists in the UNT ASLP Department. Speech therapy will be provided by current graduate students. Attendees must be independent with toileting and other self-management skills.

• ImpAACtful Eaglets and Caregiver Coaching
  • This camp is for kids ages 4–8 who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices! The camp offers a fun, supportive space for kids to practice communication skills through personalized speech therapy approaches, AAC device practice, and peer interactions, led by experienced speech-language pathologists and graduate student clinicians. Caregivers will also receive valuable support and resources during optional simultaneous group meetings. Eaglet campers must currently use and bring to camp an AAC system, be independent with toileting, and be able to participate in group. Documentation of current skills and goals is required.
• Lunch Bunch
  • Join our lunchtime social communication group and build your child’s confidence in communicating with others. The program focuses on teaching effective pragmatic skills by giving your child the opportunity to practice and use the skills taught in a more natural setting. Conversational skills, such as turn-taking, maintaining topic of conversations, initiating/participating, and asking/answering questions, will be targeted. Other possible pragmatic skills of active listening, expressing feelings, perspective taking of others, making friends, compromising, etc. may be targeted. Lunches will be provided. Attendees must be verbal (may consider use of AAC device) with no history of significant behavior difficulties that could affect the overall group dynamic.
• Read to Succeed 
  • Does your child have difficulty reading or lack confidence with comprehension? Join this one-week summer program that focuses on building word decoding skills to improve reading fluency and develop strong comprehension of age-appropriate texts while boosting their vocabulary skills.
• Ready Set College
  • Attendees will rehearse social language skills and social thinking skills with high school seniors with high-functioning autism as they prepare for college. Students will participate in
    tasks and practice social encounters to help ready them for the university experience.
• Stuttering Success 
  • An in-person camp that will explore stuttering facts and knowledge in a theme-based setting! The fun activities will encourage learning and rehearsing age-appropriate strategies, techniques, and methods that aim to enhance fluency, increase the opportunities for modifying stuttering, and increase acceptance of moments of stuttering. The tasks
    will be experiential, active, and engaging and will be based on current evidence-based practices.
• Virtual Teenage Talk Team
  • This virtual camp has theme-based activities, social skill building, and interactive games. Attendees must be able to independently attend the virtual session and engage verbally
    with others. Documentation of current skill level through most recent evaluation and/or treatment goals is required.