Facilities
Audiology
The audiology unit at the department is actively involved in the identification, assessment, and management of individuals with hearing and balance disorders. The department is well served with the latest technology.
The department caters to people of all ages. Assessment of hearing is carried out through the following specialized tests
- Pure tone audiometry
- Conditioned Play audiometry/ Visual Re-inforcement Audiometry
- Speech audiometry
- Tympanometry
- Newborn hearing screening
- Tinnitus evaluation
- Brainstem Evoked Auditory Response(BERA)
- Otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
- Vertigo and Balance testing
Specific clinical services provided by the unit are as follows:
- Hearing aid trial and fitting
- Hearing aid programming and analysis
- Tinnitus maskers
- Auditory verbal therapy
- Vestibular rehabilitation
Speech-Language Pathology
The speech-language pathology unit at the department is actively involved in the assessment and management of individuals with various speech, language, and swallowing disorders. The speech-language pathology section has multiple specialized units such as professional voice care unit, augmentative and alternative communication, dysphagia clinic, and telemedicine. Detailed assessment and interventions are carried out using instrumentation, test materials, and specialized software.
The speech-language pathology unit provides clinical services to people of all ages.
The unit has expertise and facility to manage children with
- Developmental Delay
- Autism
- Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
- Childhood Aphasia
- Mental Retardation
- Learning Disability Speech disorders
- Misarticulation
- Phonological disorder
- Stuttering
- Voice disorders
- Childhood apraxia of speech
- Similarly, the unit has the expertise to manage adults with Aphasia
- Dementia
- Dysarthria
- Stuttering
- Apraxia
- Voice
- Dysphagia
Speech-Language Pathology
New Born Hearing Screening (NBHS)
The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology runs a Newborn Hearing Screening (NBHS) program aimed at the early identification of hearing loss in newborns. The department provides hearing screening assessment services, including Automated Auditory Brainstem Response (AABR), Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE), Behavioral Observation Audiometry (BOA), and Assessment of Primitive Reflexes, in a dedicated sound-treated testing room established within the hospital’s post-natal wards
Neurogenic Communication Disorders Clinic
The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology has established a special clinic – Neurogenic Communication Disorders Clinic – at the Department of General Medicine to provide much-needed clinical services in the domain of communication disorders for people who suffer from stroke, or who experience head injury or other neurological diseases.
Dysphagia Clinic
The department runs a special clinic for Dysphagia/Swallowing disorders, established to support structured procedures for academic delivery and clinical practice in both neurogenic and oncogenic Dysphagia. The clinic provides bedside swallowing evaluation, clinical swallow examinations, and Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES). The clinic also provides evidence-based swallowing therapy, including VitalStim.
Child Rehabilitation Center (CRC)
The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, in collaboration with the Department of Pediatrics, operates a Child Rehabilitation Center to provide Speech and Language rehabilitation to children with various communication disorders