Bill Wilkerson Center

June 21, 2022

Evaluation of hearing brochures

Most brochures given to parents about newborn hearing screening results need to be modified to make them more understandable, Vanderbilt hearing researchers found.

By Emily Stembridge
November 18, 2021

Vanderbilt Audiology offers 20% discount on hearing aids through Jan. 31

By VUMC News and Communications
January 21, 2021

Special Olympics honors Wilkerson Center, Hearing and Speech Sciences

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Bill Wilkerson Center, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, has been awarded the Special Olympics’ Golisano Health Leadership Award for Tennessee. The award is the highest honor health partners can receive from the Special Olympics.

By Emily Stembridge
Joyce Jackson, right, established a fund in honor of her parents, Hazel and George Fellendorf, to support programs that benefit children with hearing loss.
February 13, 2020

Jackson’s gift to help children with hearing loss

In honor of her parents, Joyce Jackson established The Hazel J. and George W. Fellendorf Childhood Deafness Fund at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center to support programs that benefit children with hearing loss.

By Kelsey Herbers
A study participant at Emory University School of Medicine watches a video while an eye tracker records when and where she looks at the screen.
November 6, 2019

Autism study tracks musical rhythm as possible treatment

Researchers are partnering to study musical rhythm synchronization as a part of social development and how it’s disrupted in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in hopes of developing music interventions for improving social communication.

By Kelsey Herbers
July 2, 2014

Tennessee-based congressional staff spend day at Vanderbilt

Tennessee-based congressional staff members spent the day on campus June 25 to learn firsthand about Vanderbilt services and resources.

By VUMC News and Communications