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Physical Facility
The department is housed in a spacious, modern facility. It is well equipped with clinical instrumentation that enhances training and experience in procedures not available at many other programs. The department has an active, in-house Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic. The clinic is located in the down-town area, is easily accessible and provides free parking to our clients. A list of its unique features follows:
a clinic waiting room with brightly painted mural of New Orleans icons
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a medical records room adjoining a student work area
thirteen carpeted speech-language treatment rooms with two-way observation rooms. One large room contains preschool furnishings for large group treatment.
an augmentative and alternative communication diagnostic-treatment room that houses a computer with peripherals for a variety of alternative input methods and specialized software; numerous switches and mounting devices; voice output communication aids (digitized and synthesized speech options); Equipment and materials reflect both state-of-the-art and older items that are currently used by AAC consumers around the nation.
a voice diagnostic-treatment room with VisiPitch II and Speech Viewer and Computerized Speech Laboratory (CSL). The CSL has the following additional components: Multi-dimensional Voice Profile, Motor Speech Profile and Voice Range Profile
a comprehensive inventory of speech-language assessment tools, including video
equipment and over 175 tests across life-span and disorders. Clinic Waiting
Room/Office Medical Records
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a speech-language room complete with
extensive treatment materials across disorders, etiologies and
life-span; clinical reference materials and video observation tapes
available for check-out
- a psychoacoustic and evoked potential (brain mapping) lab
with state-of-the-art equipment for assessing central hearing disorders.
- a language research laboratory with advanced video editing equipment
- a speech perception/production research laboratory
- three double-walled sound rooms surrounding a central audiological
clinic, which includes brightly painted child-friendly murals
- a hearing aid laboratory for hearing aid modifications
- a hearing aid counseling area
- an auditory brainstem response (ABR) laboratory for patient
testing and research
- an electronystagmography (ENG) laboratory for
patient testing and research
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electrophysiology lab for evoked-potential research
- a pediatric audiology research laboratory with a
double-walled sound room
- a student computer laboratory
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