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Description
Students learn by serving their community. Sacramento State’s 27 Doctor of Audiology students conduct hearing evaluations, hearing aid fittings, balance screenings and cerumen management. The university’s 93 graduate speech-language pathology students provide assessment and therapy for clients ages one and older. Through this work, students develop the knowledge and practical skills they will carry into their future professions.
At the Maryjane Rees Language, Speech and Hearing Center at Sacramento State, care is provided at no fee to people of all ages throughout the region. Community gifts are what keep that care going. The clinics serve approximately 1,200 audiology patients and more than 500 speech and language clients each year, giving students the opportunity to learn through supervised, hands-on clinical experience. That learning extends beyond campus through the College of Health and Human Services Health Hive, where students participated in 15 community events during the past year, bringing hearing screenings to senior centers, nonprofit organizations and other community settings. Speech-language pathology students also screen preschoolers for speech and language concerns and school-age children for hearing concerns.
Your support of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders helps strengthen clinical services through equipment, supplies, and other program needs, including priorities such as:
- Portable screening audiometer
- Portable tympanometer
- Otoacoustic emission screener
- Two wireless video otoscopes
- Clinic diagnostic and cerumen management supplies
- Fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) scope
- Portable ultrasound system for speech sound biofeedback
If the campaign raises less than its goal, support will be used toward complete equipment and supply purchases in the order identified by the clinics, with any remaining funds staying in the account for the same purpose.
Please give today at any level to help Sacramento State students extend clinical learning into the community and prepare to serve Northern California as audiologists and speech-language pathologists. Thank you for supporting the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the future of hearing and speech care.
To mail a donation, please mail to: University Foundation at Sacramento State, PO Box 845004 Los Angeles, CA 90084-5004
Please make your check out to University Foundation at Sacramento State and write "CSAD Department" in the memo line.
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