The University of New Mexico Speech and Hearing Sciences Department will celebrate the grand opening of its new facility on Friday, March 12, 2004, from 6 to 8 p.m. The department is located at 1712 Lomas Blvd. N.E., on the southeast corner of University and Lomas.
As part of the ceremonies, the department will dedicate its new audiology booth and will also showcase new offices, labs and therapy rooms. Food, music, demonstrations and prizes will all be a part of the open house celebration.
The open house will be held in conjunction with 13th Annual Southwest Conference on Communicative Disorders, on March 11-12, at the Wyndham Albuquerque Hotel.
The conference, hosted and presented by the UNM Chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association and the UNM Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, will feature a number of speakers from throughout the country presenting a variety of speech and hearing related sessions.
The seldom heard about, often utilized UNM Speech-Language-Hearing Center recorded more than 2,000 client-related visits last year. Clients of all ages are seen at the center and treated for a variety of speech and language disorders including accent modification, aphasia, apraxia of speech, articulation, auditory processing disorders, aural rehabilitation, autism spectrum disorders, brain injury rehabilitation, dysarthria due to Parkinson’s Disease and other neurological disorders, language delay, stuttering, and transgender speech and voice disorders.
For more information or to RSVP for the reception, contact Diana Gourlay at dgourlay@unm.edu or call 277-4453.
Contact: Steve Carr (505) 277-1821