The DuBard School for Language Disorders at The University of Southern Mississippi brings the gift of oral and written language to individuals with severe communication disorders through the use of the DuBard Association Method®.
The DuBard School for Language Disorders was established in 1962 and is a clinical division of The University of Southern Mississippi's Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences.
The school was designed to serve children with severe language-speech disorders, including developmental aphasia and childhood apraxia of speech, deafness and hearing impairments, as well as those with the written language disorder of dyslexia.
Guidance and counseling for parents and families of the children also are provided.
The school is a practicum site for university students majoring in speech-language pathology, audiology, or deaf education. It also serves as an observation and practicum site for those in nursing, human performance and recreation, science education, music and social work.
The enrollment program serves 80 students each year. Students range in age from three to 13 years and have a variety of severe language-speech disorders and/or hearing impairments. Students may enter the full time program between the ages of three and nine. Approximately 80-100 students are on the waiting list at any given time.
The outclient program expanded in 1996 and serves students from other schools with mild to moderate speech-language disorders and/or dyslexia. Approximately 40 students attend both one-on-one and small group sessions two to four times a week.
Led by nationally certified speech-language pathologists or master’s level academic therapists, outclient sessions are conducted at the DuBard School. During the summer sessions, local students are often joined by children seeking services from across the country.
The outclient therapy program provides fee-based individual and small group therapy for clients ages birth through adulthood who have a diagnosed language, speech or hearing disorders or a combination of these disabilities. Included are those whose learning differences are in oral language, reading or a combination of oral and written language deficits, including dyslexia. Therapy is conducted in 50-minute sessions two to four times weekly over an 11-month period.
People often turn to the DuBard School as a referral service. More than 400 referral calls are received by the school each year.
To speak with a staff member about resources available in your community, call (601) 266.5223.
The mission of the DuBard School for Language Disorders is to bring the gift of oral and written language to individuals with communication disorders and reading disabilities, including the written language disorder of dyslexia, through use of the DuBard Association Method® in direct clinical services and professional training.
