The UGA Speech and Hearing Clinic provides hearing screenings for the Georgia Special Olympics Winter Games in January every year. Holly Kaplan, PhD, CCC-A, UGA Clinical Audiologist, serves as the Healthy Hearing Coordinator for Georgia. Hearing screenings, consisting of otoscopic checks, tympanometry, otoacoustic emissions, and puretone testing, are available as part of a total health screening program entitled “Healthy Athletes.” Screenings are provided for vision, dental, and hearing with results being given to each athlete and medical referrals being made as necessary. Funding for the program is provided from a variety of national and international grant sources and in-kind contributions from audiometric equipment manufacturers. For more information contact The UGA Speech and Hearing Clinic at 706-542-4598.
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