Clinic Overview
During a 12 month period the Clinic provides:
- Speech-language assessments and treatment to over 1000 individuals
- Audiological services to over 1000 individuals
- Outreach speech-language and hearing screenings to over 2000 individuals
- Clinical education for 125 graduate students
- In-service learning Activities for 120-140 undergraduate students
- Services to individuals from DeKalb, Dupage, Kane, Ogle, McHenry, Winnebago, Boone, Lee and Stephenson counties
Assessment Services
Services and clinical education provided include:
- Hearing screenings
- Hearing testing for adults and children
- Neonatal audiological diagnostic testing
- Hearing aid evaluations, fittings, and repairs
- Auditory processing evaluations
- Electrophysiologic assessment of the auditory system
- Otoacoustic emission testing
- Assessment of children and adults for language, speech, voice, stuttering, swallowing, feeding, or aphasia
- Interdisciplinary team assessments
- Language-Literacy assessments
- Aural rehabilitation evaluation
Treatment Services
- Assistive listening device demonstration and dispensing
- Hearing aid orientation - group or individual
- Comprehensive aural rehabilitation for individuals with acquired or congenital hearing losses including: auditory training, speechreading, speech and language therapy, and communication strategy training
- Auditory-Verbal therapy
- Aural rehabilitation following cochlear implantation
- Treatment of children and adults for language, speech, voice, stuttering, swallowing, feeding, or aphasia
- Interdisciplinary team treatment
- Family-based treatment services during evening hours
Groups
- Baby sign groups
- Parent-Infant-Toddler groups
- Social skills groups for children with autistic spectrum disorder (late afternoon-early evening)
Outreach
- Home-based speech-language treatment for medically fragile infants and toddlers
- Swallowing, feeding, and speech-language assessment and treatment for Kishwaukee Community Hospital, DeKalb County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, the Unlimited Performance Outpatient Center, and Rockford Memorial Hospital
- Speech-language and hearing screenings and services to area and regional schools, hospitals, and community service groups
- Consultation and in-service education to schools, hospitals and rehabilitation facilities
- Neonatal hearing screenings at Kishwaukee Community Hospital
