Diagnostic Assessments of Hearing for Adults and Children:

• Complete audiological evaluations
• Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)
• Follow-up testing after failed newborn hearing screenings
• Electronystagmography (ENG)
• Central Auditory Processing Evaluation (CAP)
• Tinnitus Evaluation/Hyperacusis Assessment
• Workers Compensation Hearing Examinations
• Immittance Testing (Tympanometry, Stapedial Reflexes)
• Educational Audiology (assessments and recommendations for the classroom)

Speech and Hearing Associates holds a reputation as a leader in diagnosing auditory processing disorders and is known for providing comprehensive, individualized reports that include deficit specific recommendations for therapy.

Over 90% of our referrals come from physicians, school districts (over 60 school districts refer their students to us), and from our own patients. We coordinate care with physicians, and work closely with school based child study teams and teachers to minimize the handicapping effect of a hearing loss or central auditory processing disorder, including suggestions for acoustic modification of the classroom, FM systems, and sample lesson plans specifically targeted to the individual child's central processing issues.

 

Hearing Aid Services for Adults and Children:

• Hearing aid evaluations
• Sales of all major brands of hearing aids including Phonak, Siemens, Oticon, Starkey and Widex
• Repairs on all brands of hearing aids
• Hearing aid adjustments including re-programming of major brand digital hearing aids
• Batteries for all hearing aids and assistive devices
• Aural rehabilitation for hearing loss including computer interactive software
• Hearing in Noise testing for hearing aid candidates
• Custom Ear Molds
• Custom Swim Molds
• Custom Ear Molds for Your iPod,
• Assistive Listening Devices for TV

Should a person demonstrate a hearing loss, we will discuss various options to improve hearing and/or protect hearing.  These options may or may not include a hearing aid, auditory training, assistive listening and amplification devices. Sometimes, all it takes is an understanding of the hearing loss among the person with the hearing loss and significant family members. We spend time with each patient, discussing their habitual listening lifestyles, where they are having the most difficulty (usually it's in noisy or group listening situations) and select and program the most appropriate hearing aid circuitry to solve the problem.

If a hearing aid is indicated, the patient will work with a doctor of audiology only, not a hearing aid technician, thereby ensuring the highest level of expertise and care. We only dispense major brand hearing aids and include 3 years of free batteries and manufacturer's repair and 1 year of lost/stolen coverage. All adjustments, orientation, and follow-up appointments are with our doctor's of audiology.

SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY SERVICES

Our speech language pathologists provide:

 

Evaluations and therapy for adults and children who have communication problems including:

• Voice disorders (such as vocal nodules, chronic hoarseness)
• Articulation (how speech sounds are produced)
• Fluency (stuttering)
• Language (vocabulary, grammar, understanding directions, comprehending stories, expressing oneself, etc.)
• Language Processing (what one is able to do with the information one hears)
• Swallowing (tongue thrust, dysphagia, feeding problems)
• Pragmatics/social language

Our speech language pathologists have experience working with:

• Autism spectrum disorders (PDD-NOS, Asperger's, Autism)
• Neurological conditions (Parkinson's, MS, CVA/strokes)
• Aphasia
• Dysarthria
• Apraxia
• Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
• Selective mutism
• Phonological disorders
• Receptive and expressive language delays
• Developmental articulation disorders
• Oral motor disorders
• Dysphagia
• Stuttering
• Voice disorders
• Auditory and Language Processing disorders

We offer services with speech language therapists who are fluent speakers of:

• English
• Spanish
• Korean
• Russian
• Polish
• Tagalog
• Hebrew

While our treatment approach is eclectic, we do have specialists who are knowledgeable in well known therapy approaches such as:

• PROMPT
• Lidcombe
• PECS
• AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication)
• LSVT

We are also providers of the SpeechEasy and Fluency Master fluency enhancing devices.

Appointments may be scheduled by calling any of our offices. If an evaluation has been completed recently, we may not need to repeat it. Following a review of the evaluation to determine if speech therapy is indicated, and immediately prior to beginning speech therapy, your speech language pathologist will develop a treatment plan specific to the needs of the individual.

We often work in conjunction with other professionals such as physicians and school based therapists. Our goal is to help you gain effective and functional communication and swallowing skills.

OUTREACH AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Our doctors of audiology and speech language pathologists also provide: 

Workshops and Consultations:

• Presentations to school based parent groups of children with special needs
• Consultation with school Child Study Team members and teachers
• Educational presentations to civic and senior groups

Speech and Hearing Associates' professional staff is available to provide consultations, workshops, and seminars to teachers, parents, and community groups. We are an approved provider of continuing education for the NJ Department of Education.

We have been invited to speak at over 100 school districts on topics including classroom management of children with hearing loss and central auditory processing disorder, the use of FM systems in the classroom, the relationship between auditory and language processing, classroom acoustics, signs of central auditory processing disorder, and how to advocate for children with auditory disorder.

In addition, we have been invited to speak to parent organizations, preschools, and at library programs on topics related to typical speech and language development, red flags for communication problems, and language development of bilingual and bicultural children.

We have also been invited to give workshops to government groups such as the New Jersey Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and to speak at group meetings of organizations such as AARP, Lions, Elks, various Senior Center and Assistive Living facilities on topics including:

• What causes hearing loss?
• What is this ringing in my ears?
• What kind of hearing aid is best for you?
• what you can do to improve hearing without a hearing aid,
• the most expensive hearing aid is not always the best,
• when is one hearing aid just as good as two,
• how to control your listening environment to make listening easier.

We are committed to providing education and community outreach; consequently for presentations and consultations up to 3 hours, there is no charge.

SHA has been invited to present at state and national association meetings, including the American Speech Language and Hearing Association, New Jersey Speech Language and Hearing Association, New Jersey Academy of Audiology, and New Jersey Chapter of the Dyslexia Association of America.