How the Audiology Clinic Works

How Western's Audiology Hearing Clinic Works

The clinic provides Audiology graduate students with diverse and unique experiences to transform their future clinical practice, influence their professions, and improve the lives of those living with communication disorders.

Services are provided by students in training, closely supervised by certified and state licensed Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists from the faculty and staff. Students are permitted to work with clients only after completing extensive academic and clinical preparation. The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders' graduate program is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA), meeting or exceeding all academic and clinical standards.

Family members and/or care providers collaborate with clinicians in developing short and long-term treatment goals. Family participation in therapy sessions is highly encouraged.

What is a Donation Based Clinic?

The Western Washington University's Audiology Hearing Clinic is a donation-based community clinic. This “pay it forward” model enables us to serve more community members who are unable to access high-quality communication services otherwise.

While donations are not required to receive services, your gift in any amount supports our efforts to provide clients with the services they need.

  • $5 allows us to provide a packet of hearing aid batteries
  • $10 allows us to provide a patient in need with clinic materials.
  • $20allows us provide a hearing aid care kit
  • $50 pays for hearing aid bank supplies and materials
  • $60 pays for one custom fitted hearing aid earmold
  • $100 pays for one in the ear canal hearing aid receiver
  • $155 allows us to repair a donated used aid in the WWU Hearing Aid Bank (includes a 6 month warranty) and covers the cost of a comprehensive basic hearing evaluation
  • $250 covers the cost of a hearing aid fitting and evaluation for one ear

Consider making a tax-deductible contribution today.

New Clients and Appointments

We always accept referrals for new clients. However, because we are a training facility operating on the academic calendar, we have limited appointments compared to most clinics. As a result, our wait times for services can be long. Clients are added to the waitlist once we receive all necessary paperwork.  

A variety of factors influence our waitlist times, so we are unable to give estimates of our current wait times. It may be many months before we can see a new client.  With the exception of hearing evaluations for newborns who have not passed hearing screenings, we do not expedite any clients.

Policy on providing equal opportunity and prohibiting illegal discrimination

Policy POL-U1600.02 applies to all employees, students, clients, agents, groups, individuals and organizations who use University facilities and other members of the University community to the extent provided by law. Federal and state statutes prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, disability, status as a Vietnam era or disabled veteran, creed and marital status. Western Washington University and a Governor’s Executive Order also prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The Western Washington University Speech Language Hearing Clinic pledges to make every reasonable effort to implement this policy.