High Risk Clinic

This interdisciplinary clinic is located in the ETSU Health Pediatric Clinic. Infants are referred to this clinic from neonatal intensive care nurseries across the East Tennessee region. The interdisciplinary team includes audiology, speech language pathology, nursing, nutrition, child development and neonatology/pediatrician. Families travel to this clinic from southeast Kentucky, southwest Virginia, northwest North Carolina and northeast Tennessee.

Under supervision, AuD students will be involved in conducting case medical history reviews, and performing otoscopy and OAE screenings on infants in the clinic. Students will also be counseling and providing educational information with caregivers on need and nature of the tests performed and monitoring developing auditory skills. Students will also have the opportunity to observe other team health professionals woking along with this population. Infants being seen in the ETSU High Risk Clinic have previously stayed in the NICU greater than 5 days and often present with birth history factors that increases the risk of hearing loss. Infants seen in the clinic will be continued to be monitored till age two years.  

Please contact the ETSU Center for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology for any further information:

Phone Number: 423-439-4355

Fax Number: 423-439-4607
E-mail: buckfm@etsu.edu