Two in-house clinics in CSD department
Audiology Clinic
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| Katherine Marchelletta Au.D., Director |
Our on-campus Audiology Clinic provides students with early practi-cal experience and audiology services to WSU and the Detroit metro community. The clinic is located in Rackham building and is free to patients of all ages. Clinical services are provided by one third-year and 10 first-year Doctor of Audiology graduate students, supervised by Dr. Marchelletta, Dr. Jessica Messer, and Dr. Ashley Deeb, who are licensed audiologists from Henry Ford Health System. Clinic Director Dr. Marchelletta earned the Doctor of Audiology degree from Indiana University, and has extensive clinical and supervisory experience as a Senior Staff Audiologist at Henry Ford Hospital.
The clinic offers complete hearing evaluations for both pediatric and adult patients, and is on the rescreen and diagnostic follow-up facilities list for Michigan Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Newborn Hearing Screening program. Auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing equipment enables the clinic to provide complete electrocochleography testing, diagnostic electrophysiology, and auditory steady state response testing.
Initially funded in part by a gift from the Carls Foundation to our department, the clinic offers audiology graduate students clinical experience from their very first semester of the program. For appointments call 313-577-0631 or email wsuaudiology@gmail.com.
Newborn Hearing Screenings
Michigan and U.S. laws mandate newborn hearing screenings for all babies, but many children "fall through the cracks" and do not receive timely follow-up diagnostics or intervention. Untreated hearing impairment in young children has a devastating effect on speech and language development and progress in school. We are working to raise awareness of the needs of hearing impaired individuals and to try to find solutions. We have set a goal of increasing our staff and resources so that we can expand our services to children and provide more parent education. Audiology research has enormous potential for application to clinical problems facing children and adults with hearing loss.