Speech and Hearing Center: Outpatient Services
Project Description:
As a major resource for speech and hearing in the Hudson Valley Region, the Center provides comprehensive services to outpatients at the Westchester Institute for Human Development (WIHD). Our goals include identification, evaluation, and diagnosis of speech, language, swallowing, and hearing disorders, and provision of prompt, quality intervention. The Speech and Hearing Center is approved by New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) as a Specialty Center under the New York State Physically Handicapped Children?s Program (PHCP). All the speech-language pathologists and audiologists are certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and are licensed by the New York State Department of Education. The Speech and Hearing Center is also the primary clinical site for the graduate program in medical speech-language pathology at the School of Health Sciences and Practice, New York Medical College (NYMC).
The Center provides a full range of services to individuals ranging in age from newborns to senior citizens, and performs over 4500 visits annually. We serve not only individuals with disabilities but the general public. The audiologists specialize in the evaluation, diagnosis and non-medical treatment of both central and peripheral hearing disorders. Services include: comprehensive hearing assessments; full service amplification/hearing aid program ? including digital and programmable aids ? from evaluation and dispensing to counseling and repairs; electrodiagnostic studies (ABR, OAE, and universal newborn/infant hearing screening); electronystagmography (ENG) assessment; auditory processing evaluations; and a cochlear implant program.
Highly qualified speech-language pathologists evaluate, diagnose and treat communication, feeding and swallowing disorders. Clinicians use state-of-the-art techniques and strategies including instrumentation. Services are available for: speech delays, disorders, stuttering; language delays and disorders; swallowing/feeding difficulties; cognitive aspects of communication; non-verbal speech with augmentative communication; cleft palate/craniofacial anomalies; hearing impairment; and auditory processing disorders.
The Voice Care Center is a specialty program of the Speech and Hearing Center at WIHD. The Center offers a comprehensive voice assessment laboratory, and provides assessment and treatment of voice disorders in children and adults, including care of the professional voice.
Key Words
? Graduate training
? Speech-language disorders
? Swallow/feeding disorders
? Hearing disorders
? Hearing aids
? Cochlear implants
? Voice disorders
? Professional voice
Keyword(s):
speech language disorders, swallowing/feeding disorders, hearing disorders,
Core Function(s):
Performing Direct and/or Demonstration Services, Developing & Disseminating Information
Area of Emphasis
Health-Related Activities
Target Audience:
Adults with Disabilities, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Mulit-County
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
