Facilities

The Speech and Hearing Lab in Room 012 Davison Hall includes an audiometric sound booth and audiometer for conducting hearing testing, and a tympanometer for evaluating the function of the middle ear. Students learn about the sound booth, audiometer, and tympanometer in undergraduate and graduate courses in both speech-language pathology and audiology. The lab houses the Pentax Medical Computerized Speech Lab (CSL™), which is considered to be the “gold standard” hardware/software package for capturing and playing back acoustic signals of speech and voice production. Students use the CSL to evaluate voice and resonance disorders with samples from such programs as the CSL Multidimensional Voice Program and Database. They learn to evaluate their own speech and voice output to compare to individuals with cleft lip/palate disorders and vocal pathologies. The CSL can also display critical information for individuals with articulation disorders including apraxia of speech. Additionally, students learn to use Praat software for spectrographic analysis of speech and voice. For coursework in resonance disorders, the lab includes the KayPentax Nasometer for measurements and assessment of nasalance and abnormal resonance in cleft palate and velopharyngeal insufficiency.

For graduate students in audiology, the Speech and Hearing Lab II in Room 011 Davison Hall contains state-of-the-art equipment for evaluating balance disorders related to the vestibular system/inner ear. This equipment allows students to practice the assessments of Videonystagmography (VNG) and Electronystagmography (ENG). The lab also includes a rotary chair that allows students to make assessments of clients in a seated or supine position.

The Anatomage Lab is a 3D anatomy system of a real human. Students can use the digital cadaver lab in their undergraduate and graduate studies.