The space occupied by the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) and its clinical affiliate the Gebbie Clinic, was no longer capable of meeting the program requirements for both instruction and clinical training as required by its accrediting agency, the American Speech and Language Hearing Association (ASHA).  

Immersing ourselves into the clinic, a program emerged that included classrooms, work rooms, student lounge, faculty offices for undergraduate instruction with another program of instructional/clinical spaces for the graduate and doctoral program.  The clinic program included both evaluation and therapy components for speech, language pathology and audiology along with support spaces for staff and supervisors.