A gift from the California Scottish Rite Foundation will allow University of the Pacific to expand free language and speech therapy for hundreds of Stockton children each year.
Nearly $1 million will support the RiteCare Childhood Language Center of Stockton, where Pacific student clinicians have provided no-cost services to children with speech, language and literacy disorders for more than 40 years.
“This gift will open so many doors for us,” said Ashley Kramer ’10, ’11, clinic director and assistant clinical professor of speech-language pathology. “There are so many speech and language needs in the Stockton community. The foundation’s support will allow us to grow our program, get more clinicians working with families, and get more kids’ needs met.”