Language Center at Nave
The Center provides comprehensive language and eating therapies to increase communication and social skills and improve eating and nutrition.
Our Mission...
We are dedicated to improving the quality of life of our clients and their families using a comprehensive approach to language and feeding therapy. Our intervention is up to date, researched based, and collaborative between Speech-Language Pathologists, students, families, the community, and other professionals.
The East Tennessee State University Center for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the Nave Center underwent extensive renovations this year, expanding services offered at the interdisciplinary, interprofessional clinic located in Elizabethton.
This facility has served as an academic space for ETSU since 1976 and has transformed over the years into an interdisciplinary clinic with multiple areas of practice that serves community health care needs and educates ETSU students who are pursuing a variety of careers in the rehabilitative and diagnostic health sciences.
During the summer, former classrooms and lab spaces were transformed into additional SLP examination and observation suites so that ETSU’s SLP clinics could move from ETSU’s main campus to the Nave Center.
The ETSU College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences (CCRHS) celebrated the completion of the work and the grand reopening of the facility this fall.
The audiology services offered at the Nave Center include comprehensive hearing evaluations for all ages (newborns to geriatric patients); electrophysiologic testing, such as Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR); central auditory processing evaluations for school-aged children; hearing aid fittings and repairs; cochlear implant candidacy and mapping; hearing conservation and prevention; tinnitus assessment and management; and audiologic rehabilitation for all ages.
The center also offers comprehensive SLP services for pediatric and adult SLP diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic intervention services for individuals with communication and swallowing issues.
Other specialty programs at the Nave Center include the Positive Eating Program, designed for children with behavioral and sensory-based feeding challenges; the Social Communication Skills program, offering evaluation and treatment for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT) intervention for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; and aural rehabilitation services.
To learn more about the services offered at the ETSU Center for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, contact us at navecenter@etsu.edu.
See our video about the recent renovations of the NAVE Center!
The NAVE Language Center- ASD Clinic
The Language Center is a program for children with Autism spectrum disorder and related
communication and social pragmatic disorders. The program is available for preschoolers
through elementary school. The services include comprehensive assessment and intervention
for receptive, expressive and pragmatic communication challenges. Children typically
receive intervention twice weekly during the fall and spring semester. During the
summer semester, group programs are provided that focus on building communication
and socials skills in peer interactions. The treatment methodology of Enhanced Milieu
Teaching in conjunction with visual strategies is used to facilitate communication
development.
The Positive Eating Program (PEP) is designed for children with behavioral and sensory based feeding challenges including
children with and without specific medical diagnosis. The goals of the program are
to increase food awareness, decrease anxiety to new food textures and types, provide
consistent and appropriate mealtime behaviors and for comprehensive parent training
and collaboration to facilitate generalization of new feeding behaviors across context.
Additionally, participation in cultivating a vegetable garden exposes children to
different sensory experiences and foods. The program is appropriate for infants to
elementary school and meets one day per week for 2 hour sessions. A program for older
children is being developed.
The Summer Language Institute is a "day camp program" for children with a variety of academic, language or social
needs. The program is available for 6 weeks; meeting four days per week from 9:00-2:00.
Each week a new theme is explored with individual participants goals addressed during
art, music, play, book reading and experimental activities (science and math). A variety
of community based activities are provided that facilitate learning of goals in new
ways. Weeks are available for children 3 to 8 years and 8 to 12 years.
Parent Training Programs
Parent training programs provide parents and caregivers information on and training
in building speech and language skills through their daily routines and are offered
several times each year.
This website was created to highlight our children and their families, share information about upcoming events, and celebrate our success! Thank you for visiting!