Hearing and Speech Clinical Services
Hearing and Speech Clinical Services

Services Offered

 

Hearing Evaluation

When doing a hearing evaluation, an audiologist picks different tests for each child based on age and developmental level. These tests may include:

  • Sound-booth evaluations
  • Otoacoustic emission testing
  • Auditory brainstem response
  • Sedated ABR
  • Sleep deprived ABR
  • Play conditioned audiometry
  • Hearing aid services

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Speech and Language

Speech-language pathologists at the Hearing and Speech Clinic do many evaluations, including:

  • Speech and language evaluation (an audiologist also does a hearing evaluation at this time)
  • Chronic cough/paradoxic vocal cord dysfunction evaluation
  • Reading/dyslexia evaluation

Children may also get speech and language treatment. Individual or group therapies include:

  • Articulation/phonology
  • Language
  • Voice
  • Fluency
  • Resonance
  • Parent education
  • Early literacy

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