Comprehensive audiological evaluations are provided for inpatients and outpatients of all ages. In addition, complete hearing aid services are performed, including the dispensing of programmable and digital signal processing instruments. Our students are often selected by the Tucson VAMC to complete paid or unpaid internships in their busy audiology department. Students gain practical experience providing audiological services, including hearing aid selection and fitting, with an adult population. Given the hospital setting, there is an emphasis on patients with neurologic involvement.
Most referrals come directly from primary care physicians.
Mexico Clinic faculty from The University of Arizona and Tucson area audiologists have been providing audiological services at The School for Hearing and Language in Hermosillo, Sonora Mexico since 1988. The Hermosillo Project is an outreach program that provides hearing assessments and hearing aids to approximately 120 hearing impaired students in Hermosillo a city of 750,000 people 300 miles south of Tucson. Fall and Spring trips to Hermosillo each year provide 2-3 graduate students in the audiology program with practical experience in the areas of hearing aid selecting and fitting. Considerable experience is also gained in troubleshooting hearing aid problems and minor repairs.