Northern Illinois University

NIU Office of Public Affairs


News Release

Contact: Mark McGowan, NIU Office of Public Affairs
(815) 753-9472

August 25, 2004

NIU Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic offers
seminar on hearing loss, hearing aids

DeKalb — Northern Illinois University’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic will offer a free community seminar in cooperation with the DeKalb County Farm Bureau on hearing loss and hearing aids.

This seminar, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, will feature a guest speaker from Phonak Hearing Systems. The event takes place at the farm bureau, 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore.

Please call the farm bureau to register at (815) 756-6361. For more information, call (815) 753-1481.

NIU’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is open year-round and annually provides speech-language assessments and family-based treatment to more than 1,000 patients as well as hearing evaluations and hearing aid evaluations and fittings to more than 1,000 individuals.

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