Speech-Language Pathology
Uva Speech Language Hearing Center is a Speech-Language Pathology practice in Charlottesville, VA
with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in preventing, assessing, diagnosing, and treating speech, language, cognitive communication, and swallowing disorders arising from illness, injury, deficiency, or congenital birth defect.
Speech-Language Pathologists at Uva Speech Language Hearing Center perform
testing, evaluation, and treatment of disorders relating to how patients form words, communicate, and process the speech of others. Speech-Language Pathology is
a medical specialty that deals with disorders related to how patients form words, speak, and understand what others are saying to them. Significant diseases and conditions treated at
Speech-Language Pathology practices include speech disorders like stuttering and dysarthia, language disorders like articulation and phonological processing disorders, social communication disorders, cognitive-communication disorders, voice disorders, and swallowing disorders that may arise from conditions like stroke, dementia, brain injury, multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease, autism, hearing loss, or congenital birth defects.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Speech-Language Pathology
practices include speech and language assessment, hearing assessment, developing treatment plans based on assessment and test results, developing communications strategies for patients and caregivers, working with patients to achieve communication goals, and providing patient and parent education.
The speech-language pathologist is the professional who engages in clinical services, prevention, advocacy, education, administration, and research in the areas of communication and swallowing across the life span from infancy through geriatrics. Speech-language pathologists address typical and atypical impairments and disorders related to communication and swallowing in the areas of speech sound production, resonance, voice, fluency, language (comprehension and expression), cognition, and feeding and swallowing.
Speech Language Pathologists in Charlottesville, VA
Audiology
Uva Speech Language Hearing Center is an Audiology practice in Charlottesville, VA
with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in diagnosing, treating, and preventing conditions and injuries that affect the sense of sound and balance.
Audiologists at Uva Speech Language Hearing Center perform
diagnostic tests to detect issues with hearing and balance, and provides preventative and treatment options to address them. Audiology is
the field of medicine concerned with the sense of hearing and how it affects the rest of the mind and body. Significant diseases and conditions treated at
Audiology practices include hearing loss, balance issues, tinnitus, vertigo, barotrauma, and auditory processing disorder.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Audiology
practices include conducting hearing assessments, providing hearing aids and cochlear implant, and teaching methods of speech like lip-reading.
A specialist in evaluation, habilitation and rehabilitation of those whose communication disorders center in whole or in part in hearing function. Audiologists are autonomous professionals who identify, assess, and manage disorders of the auditory, balance and other neural systems. Audiologists provide audiological (aural) rehabilitation to children and adults across the entire age span. Audiologists select, fit and dispense amplification systems such as hearing aids and related devices. (2) An audiologist is a person qualified by a master's degree in audiology, licensed by the state, where applicable, and practicing within the scope of that license. Audiologists evaluate and treat patients with impaired hearing. They plan, direct and conduct rehabilitative programs with audiotry substitutional devises (hearing aids) and other therapy.
Audiologists in Charlottesville, VA
Assistive Technology Practice
Uva Speech Language Hearing Center is an Assistive Technology Practice practice in Charlottesville, VA
with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in providing technology to help maintain and enhance the quality of life for patients with disabilities.
Assistive Technology Practitioners at Uva Speech Language Hearing Center perform
assistive device instruction for patients with disabilities. Assistive Technology Practice is
assessing patients' technology needs and prescribing and instructing patients on how to use assistive devices. Significant diseases and conditions treated at
Assistive Technology Practice practices include sensory, learning, and physical disabilities.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Assistive Technology Practice
practices include screen readers, hearing aids, and wheelchairs.
Assistive Technology Practitioners in Charlottesville, VA
Audiology (Hearing Aid Fitting)
Uva Speech Language Hearing Center is an Audiology (Hearing Aid Fitting) practice in Charlottesville, VA
with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in evaluating, diagnosing, treating, and managing hearing loss and balance disorders in adults and children.
Hearing Aid Audiologists at Uva Speech Language Hearing Center perform
exams on ear anatomy and physiology, then prescribes and manages amplification devices, cochlear implants, and auditory rehabilitation. Audiology (Hearing Aid Fitting) is
the treatment and management of hearing loss and balance disorders. Significant diseases and conditions treated at
Audiology (Hearing Aid Fitting) practices include hearing loss, balance disorders and tinnitus.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Audiology (Hearing Aid Fitting)
practices include hearing exams, hearing aid fittings, treatment for balance disorders and tinnitus, as well as hearing and speech rehabilitation.
An audiologist/hearing aid fitter is the professional who specializes in evaluating and treating people with hearing loss, conducts a wide variety of tests to determine the exact nature of an individual's hearing problem, presents a variety of treatment options to patients, dispenses and fits hearing aids, administers tests of balance to evaluate dizziness and provides hearing rehabilitation training. This classification should be used where individuals are licensed as "audiologist-hearing aid fitters" as opposed to states that license individuals as "audiologists".
Hearing Aid Audiologists in Charlottesville, VA
