The University of Redlands Truesdail Center for Communicative Disorders showed off its recent $1 million remodel and expansion at an open house last week.

The building, which hasn’t been remodeled since 1967, now features renovated therapy rooms, more observation space and an additional large therapy room; three new offices for professors; and a new audiology suite with a soundproof booth where hearing testing and screening will be performed.

The audio/video control room now boasts state-of-the-art equipment, including two plasma monitors where faculty can observe activity in the clinic rooms. Information about patients is now Web based and accessible to faculty from anywhere.

The Truesdail Center for Communicative Disorders offers speech and linguistic therapy to infants, children and adults throughout the Inland Empire who are referred by physicians, school officials and other sources.

Chris Walker, chair of the Communicative Disorders department, said the clinic needed more observation space.

“We embrace the participation of the families,” he said.

And the additional large therapy room could allow the clinic, for which there is a waiting list, to help additional patients and provide greater access to the community.

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