As the pandemic shut people out of speech therapy options, a quick switch to teletherapy allowed a vital community clinic at the UO to stay open and kept the students who staff it on track for graduation.
“We remained the only lifeline for some clients who had services in other areas stop or shut down, and we didn’t decrease volume at all,” said Jennifer Meyer, the director of clinical education at the HEDCO Clinic’s Speech-Language-Hearing Center. “In fact, we’re serving more clients than before the pandemic hit. As things were shutting down, we were ramping up.”