Western Washington University
📍Bellingham, WA
The Western Washington University Student Academy of Audiology (WWU SAA) is a graduate student–led organization based in Bellingham, Washington. Our members are pursuing their Doctorate in Audiology and share a passion for promoting hearing health and connection within the community. We focus on outreach, education, and advocacy to make hearing care more accessible and better understood. Through collaboration and service, we aim to build relationships, raise awareness, and grow together as compassionate future audiologists.
The Speech-Language and Hearing Clinics at WWU operates on a donation-based, no-fee clinic model which allows a diagnostic freedom that we otherwise wouldn't have with billing and the restrictions of insurance reimbursement. The no-fee clinic increases our patient access. Because we don't use billing as a revenue generator, there are so many community needs that the clinic can meet. Our patients are served by graduate student clinicians, under the supervision of a clinical Audiologist.