Free testing for hearing, speech-language, glaucoma, and amblyopis will be offered to the public on Saturday, April 30, from 9 a.m. to noon at SUNY Fredonia. The Henry C. Youngerman Center for Communication disorders, located in Thompson Hall will conduct the screening in honor of Better Speech and Hearing Month celebrated throughout May.
 
The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology and the Dunkirk-Fredonia Lions Club are jointly sponsoring the free clinic.
 
Staffing the clinic will be Youngerman Center Director Michele Notte, Clinical Audiologist Marc Wilcox, and Speech Language Pathologist Timothy Overbeck. Graduate students in the master’s degree program in speech and hearing will be assisting as student interns.
 
As part of its sight-saving work, the Chautauqua Blind Association will provide screening for glaucoma. In addition, trained members of the Lions Club will use up-to-date equipment to screen for amblyopis or "lazy eye" in young children.
 
A participant with most of the private health insurance companies, the Youngerman Center provides a full range of diagnostic and treatment services for people of all ages. The center also participates with Medicare for its audiology services. It regularly provides hearing evaluations, hearing aid fittings and sales, speech-language, voice evaluations, central audiology processing evaluations, therapy and a language enrichment program for preschool children.
 
Individuals and parents are encouraged to attend the free testing service if they have any concerns about their own or a family member’s speech-language, hearing, or vision.