UB Speech And Hearing Clinic to Hold Open House

By Lois Baker

Release Date: April 17, 1999 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo will hold an open house from 4-6 p.m. April 23 in the south wing of the Biomedical Education Building on the UB South (Main Street) Campus to introduce the public to the new location of its Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic.

The clinic provides a variety of services to children and adults in the evaluation and treatment of speech-language and hearing disorders. The department and its clinical program moved to its present location in January from the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The open house will include tours of the clinic facilities and the department's research laboratories. Refreshments will be served.

The department educates specialists and conducts research in a variety of areas involving speech production, language comprehension, and the physiology and functioning of the auditory system.

In addition, the following services are offered at the clinic: hearing tests, hearing aid selection and dispensing, aural rehabilitation and counseling, and evaluation and treatment of such conditions as central auditory processing disorders, cleft palate, autism, augmentative communication, phonological development, language and learning problems, aphasia and related neurogenic disorders, voice and laryngectomy, dysfluency/stuttering, and articulation and dialect differences.