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Hearing, Speech and Vision Services |
Hearing Speech and Vision Services is a public health program of the Utah Department of Health's Community and Family Health Services Division. It provides statewide consultation, education, and clinical services in the areas of communicative disorders (speech-language development and hearing) and preschool vision screening. Clinical facilities are located in Salt Lake City, Ogden, Cedar City and Price. All facilities are staffed by licensed and certified speech/language pathologists and/or audiologists. Clinical and consultation services are also provided in many rural areas individually and through state and local Health Department clinics. The mission of Hearing, Speech, and Vision Services is to assure optimal hearing, speech, language, and vision in Utah children, through a collaborative statewide system of education, prevention, early identification and intervention, diagnosis, referral and care coordination. Who can we help? All children in Community and Family Health Services clinical programs from birth to 18 years of age with suspected or identified hearing, speech or language handicaps are eligible for diagnostic evaluations and follow-up services. All Utah children from birth to five years of age are eligible for screening services. Specific target populations are newborns, infants, preschoolers, children at risk, children in areas lacking alternative care and children of parents needing financial assistance. Families are charged according to ability to pay, utilizing a sliding fee scale. No services are denied because of inability to pay. What do we do?
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HSVS also oversees and supports the legislatively mandated newborn hearing screening in Utah. This includes maintaining a comprehensive (child) database, a statewide child tracking system, an advisory committee that reviews and provides guidance to the program, and a system that provides an annual evaluation of the states as well as the individual hospital/birthing centers newborn hearing screening and follow-up performance.44 N Mario Capecchi Dr * PO Box 144610 *
Salt Lake City UT 84114-4610 Standard Business Hours (Beginning Monday, August 4th) Monday through Thursday, 7 AM - 6 PM |