AUDIOLOGY CLINIC
ABOUT
The audiology clinic of the Department of Disability studies was established in 2007, together with Ceylon- Direkthilfe e.V. Germany through Sunflower Village. The clinic provides audiology services for a wide range of clients including newborns, infants, toddlers, school children, adolescents and adults .It also functions as a teaching-learning facility for audiology students, where students are given the opportunity to learn on-the-job the clinical skills required to become fully-fledged audiologist.
SERVICES
- Screening for hearing impairment using behavioral and physiological assessment methods
- Diagnosis of hearing impairment using behavioral and physiological assessment methods
- Hearing aid services & aural rehabilitation
- Counselling family/caregivers
- Behavioral observation audiometry (0-6 months)
- Visual reinforcement audiometery (6-24 months)
- Conditioned play audiometry (3-5 years)
- Pure tone audiometry (> 6 years)
- Speech audiometry
- Tests to identify cochlear pathology
- Tests to identify retro cochlear pathology
- Tinnitus evaluation
- Central Auditory Processing assessment
- Otoscopy
- Middle ear analysis/ Immittance audiometry
- Otoacoustic emissions
- Auditory evoked potentials
- Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials
- Hearing aid fitting (with formal/informal hearing aid trials)
- Custom ear mold making
- Auditory verbal therapy
- Auditory training
- Speech reading
- Communication strategies
APPOINTMENTS
Patients are seen strictly on appointment basis on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
Please call +94 11 2958251 Monday- Friday 9 am- 4pm for appointments.
COORDINATORS
| Audiologists: | Administrative Officer: |
| Ms. Dinukshi Ileperuma Ms. Dumini De Silva Ms. Bandini Jayasena Ms. Uvini Colonne Ms. Lakmini Balasuriya |
Ms. Geetha Amarakoon |
