The Youngerman Center for Communication Disorders at SUNY Fredonia will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding as a clinic for speech and hearing services on Friday, May 6, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Williams Center Room G-140/141.
 
The Youngerman Center has a long-standing reputation as the best-equipped facility for voice, speech and hearing assessments and treatment in Western New York. A State-of-the-Art diagnostic and treatment technology lab allows for expert diagnostic and treatment regimens for speech and voice disorders.
 
Located in Thompson Hall, the center is operated by the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology and staffed by licensed speech language pathologists, audiologists and graduate student interns. Its primary mission is to serve as a training site for interns completing the Master's Degree and to function as an integral component within the community as a comprehensive service provider
 
The center offers a full range of diagnostic and treatment services to residents in the surrounding communities, as well as college students, faculty and staff. Services are provided to people of all ages in need of speech, language or swallowing evaluations, hearing evaluations, hearing aid fitting and repair, central auditory processing evaluations, as well as comprehensive treatment for all of the communication and hearing disorders.
 
The clinic has served the Early Intervention program of Chautauqua County, Preschool Services through the Special Education programs of local school districts, the Office of Disability Determinations in Buffalo and the Traumatic Brain Injury services for adults through the State Department of Health.