Speech and Hearing Services

Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)
Visual Reiforcement Audiometry (VRA)

Additional location 

Aquidneck Hearing Center

567 Metacom Ave., Unit 6

Bristol, RI 02809

Otoacoustic Emissions ( OAE)

Visual Reinforcement Audiometry ( VRA)

Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)

Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)
Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)

Martin R. Papazian MD

John M. Tarro MD

Douglas F. Emery MD

Thomas F. Della Torre MD

David S. Bick MD

Zachary J. Quay-de la Vallee MD

allergy

audiologists

otolaryngologists

Multiple office locations:

New Patient Fax 401-727-1979

Providence 401-728-0140

Cumberland 401-333-8664

Johnston 401-272-2457

Cranston 401-228-6450

Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)
Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)

Children ages 6 months through high school are welcome to be screened at no charge.

School districts should contact Jaime Lyn Knight (jlknight@rideaf.net) to set up an outreach consultation for any student with hearing loss that may need support to thrive in the mainstream school.

Otoacoustic Emissions ( OAE)
Sedated Auditory Brainstem Response ( ABR)
Unsedated Auditory Brainstem Response ( ABR)
Visual Reinforcement Audiometry ( VRA)

Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)

COVID-19 ~ Temporary Change

Our office is open and we are seeing patients by appointment only. 

Please call the office at 401-789-1906 to schedule an appointment or to arrange pick up of supplies. We check voice mail often, please leave a message and we will return your call.

Anyone entering the office must be wearing a face mask.

Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)
Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)

Pediatric

Developmentally appropriate diagnostic hearing evaluations for children and infants/toddlers over the age of 8 months

Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)

Speech and Language Evaluations https://web.uri.edu/speech-hearing/speech-language-services/
Speech-Language Therapy

Adult Neurogenic clinic and specialized programs

The URI Speech and Hearing Centers provide comprehensive clinical services, both at the Kingston campus and our Pawtucket facility. The centers offer a broad range of speech-language and hearing services to clients of all ages, who receive treatment from qualified professionals, with the assistance of trained graduate students in speech-language pathology and audiology.

Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)

See website for covid-19 notice

Multiple locations:
University Otolaryngology
830 Eddy Street
Providence, RI
(401) 274-2300


University Otolaryngology
116 Main Street
Wakefield, RI
(401) 782-4400

Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)
Unsedated Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) 0-3 months
Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)

The Department of Audiology at Women & Infants Hospital offers hearing services for children and adults of all ages. Our team works closely with the Newborn Nursery and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) medical providers to coordinate audiology services for newborns, particularly infants with multiple medical challenges. We work closely with Early Intervention and various school systems to provide quality services for toddlers and school-aged children. We have extensive training and experience in the diagnosis and management of hearing loss resulting from middle ear disease, noise exposure, aging, and many other causes.

Gallaudet Regional Center East will send a deaf or hard of hearing tutor into the family’s home once a week to work with the family. The goal of this program is to introduce family members to Sign Language, enabling them to communicate with their child at the earliest age possible.

The Gallaudet University Regional Center-East (GURC-East), hosted at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Massachusetts, is one of Gallaudet’s four regional centers devoted to providing services, programs and resources for deaf and hard of hearing individuals and their communities.
Rhode Island Sign Language Initiative
contact: Adrianna Neefus
Gallaudet University Regional Center Administrative Assistant
978-556-3701 voice
978-556-3703 fax
978-241-7417 VP/VRS
Adrianna.neefus@necc.mass.edu

Northern Rhode Island Collaborative’s Auditory Oral Foundations was developed to capitalize on improving and expanding technologies for the hearing impaired – in particular the very young. Our students, using technologies such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, learn techniques to better communicate. 

For additional information on NRIC's Auditory Oral Foundations, please contact the Program Coordinator, Sarah Rosendale at:

401-952-8025

The Auditory Oral Foundations program is part of the Northern Rhode Island Collaborative (NRIC). Our commitment is to prepare children for an education in their community schools by providing them with the tools they will need for successful inclusion and achievement.

There is an additional directory listing for NRIC Foundation programs.

Telecommunications Relay Services permit persons with a hearing or speech disability to use the telephone system via a text telephone (TTY) or other device to call persons with or without such disabilities.

To make using TRS as simple as possible, you can simply dial 711 to be automatically connected to a TRS operator. No cost.

A diagnostic and education center for young children with hearing loss. Offers worldwide family services, local family services, professional education, preschool, and hearing testing. 

Online Resources Include:

• [http://www.infanthearing.org/states/index.html information about state EHDI programs]
• Resources for professionals and families.
• Information about national and state legislative efforts.