Last year the Audiology and Speech Center logged more than 8,000 visits by clients, ranging from infants and adolescents with speech and hearing disorders to adults who have suffered severe head trauma and elderly persons who are experiencing gradual hearing loss.
All faculty members are clinicians as well as academicians, and all are licensed and certified.
Speech-language pathologists provide prevention, assessment, and intervention services to children and adults who have communication disorders that prevent or interfere with effective communication. Audiologists are responsible for the nonmedical management of hearing loss. They test hearing, select and work with hearing aids, counsel individuals about hearing loss, provide auditory rehabilitation, and take noise measurements.