Youngerman Center to Offer free Hearing and Speech Screening

Free testing for hearing, speech-language and ambliopia (lazy-eye in children) will be offered to the public on Saturday, April 29 from 9 a.m. till 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 Lion's Club are jointly sponsoring the free clinic. Clinical supervisors and graduate student interns will be on staff to provide the testing.

A participant with many 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 and therapy; augmentative evaluations for speech generating devices; central auditory processing evaluations and therapy; and a preschool group language enrichment program.

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.

Learn more about the Youngerman Clinic and the Dept. of Speech Pathology and Audiology at SUNY Fredonia