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Opened with an official ribbon-cutting on May 26, 2022, within The Hub community resource center in North St. Louis City, the Walker Scottish Rite Clinic has a new collaborative site for City residents in need of care. An outreach of the Maryville University-based headquarters, this satellite location at The Hub features a speech therapy room and…

ST. LOUIS – May is Better Hearing and Speech Month. It’s a time to teach the value of early therapeutic intervention when needed. Jacob Gutshall, director of The Walker Scottish Rite Clinic, explained the importance of early intervention. View the full segment here.

“When I see other kids with speech issues I have shared our family’s experience at Scottish Rite. Speech therapy gave Kennedy the confidence she needed to recite her poems, communicate her needs and to live her life proudly with the ability to speak in a way that others could understand her! Thank you!”   ~ Kennedy’s…

Steve Potter interviews two directors from Maryville University. On the first segment, Maryville University's Ebonee Shaw explains how the Kids Rock Cancer program aids children by way of music therapy. In the second segment, Jacob Gutshall of the Walker Scottish Rite Clinic, talks about their Maryville University sponsored program that offers speech-language therapy for children…

The Clinic's speech-language pathologists are hopeful that recently enacted federal funds will be used to improve internet access, so that services like the Walker Scottish Rite Clinic, which is part of Maryville University and assists with speech and language disorders, can reach rural families. All of our experience and research underscore the importance of early…

Pediatric Audiologist Gayle Santucci, PhD, will be honored at this year’s KidTalk Celebration. As the longest practicing pediatric audiologist in the St. Louis region, Santucci has worked as an audiologist for 46 years and with the Walker Clinic for nearly 30 years. Click here for the full story

Our 2021 Clinic Ambassadors are two great kids who now have a brighter future thanks to the help they received at the Walker Scottish Rite Clinic. Meet Ava and Logan! Ava began speech therapy at the Walker Scottish Rite Clinic in 2019. When she first started therapy, she had trouble forming her words to ask…

Maryville Magazine highlights the significant outcome of increased telecommunications and the thought leadership role the Walker Scottish Rite Clinic has taken nationally. Traditionally, a professional speech-language-literacy conference has been held in-person every two years, and it was scheduled to take place in St. Louis during Fall 2020. In lieu of that conference, the Walker Scottish Rite…

During Better Hearing and Speech Month in May, Fox 2 News interviewed the Walker Scottish Rite Clinic's director, Jacob Gutshall, to help spread the word about childhood communication disorders. Click here to view the full interview: Walker Clinic featured on Fox 2 News

¡Muchas gracias a la Cámara de Comercio Hispana! La patóloga bilingüe del habla y el lenguaje, Ellie Richter, ayudó a difundir los trastornos del habla y el lenguaje en la infancia. Los servicios de la Clínica Walker Scottish Rite se promovieron durante el Mes de la Mejora Auditiva y del Habla. Haga clic aquí para ver…