The UW Speech and Hearing Clinic partners with Reach Dane, Dane County’s Head Start program, to provide comprehensive hearing, middle ear, and speech‑language screenings for children in our area. Each year, the clinic conducts hearing and middle ear screenings for children ages 3-5 enrolled in Head Start and ages 0-3 years through the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach (ECHO) Initiative. The clinic also offers speech and language screenings for children whose teachers have identified communication concerns.
This collaborative relationship, established more than 30 years ago, supports early identification of children who may benefit from audiologic, speech‑language, or medical follow‑up. Screenings are completed by graduate student clinicians in audiology and speech‑language pathology within the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, under the direct supervision of UWSHC audiologists and speech‑language pathologists.
