Lyles-Porter Hall invites community to open house

October 28, 2014  


WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The public can visit and tour the various clinics at Purdue University's Lyles-Porter Hall at a community open house on Nov. 8.

The event, which will have a tailgate theme, is 9-11 a.m. and is free and open to the public at the facility, which is located at the northwest corner of Harrison and University streets. In addition to tours, there also will be health screenings and refreshments from Purdue's departments of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Health and Kinesiology; Nutrition Science; Psychological Sciences; and the School of Nursing. The Indiana University School of Medicine – Lafayette regional campus also will be part of the celebration.

"Thousands of people will visit the various services here, and this is an opportunity for everyone to see the new facility and what it has to offer," says Christine Ladisch, dean of College of Health and Human Sciences.

Lyles-Porter Hall opened this fall and was formally dedicated on Sept. 26.  It is named in honor of a $10 million gift from Marybeth Lyles-Porter Seay of Visalia, California, who is a retired speech pathologist and Purdue alumna.

A brief program will begin at 9 a.m., and the event also will rededicate the A.H. Ismail Center for Health, Exercise and Nutrition and kick off the 100th anniversary of the Department of Health and Kinesiology.

The programs that will be featured as part of the open house include:

* The Audiology Clinic provides a full range of diagnostic and rehabilitative services to infants, children and adults. Services include hearing testing, counseling and referrals. The clinic also dispenses hearing aids and assistive listening devices. The department also is one of the state's primary diagnostic centers for infant hearing, seeing about 150 babies a year.

* The Speech-Language Clinic sees almost 1,700 clients per year and offers many programs for people at all stages of the life span. Beginning with a Birth-to-Three Program, the Purdue Preschool Language Program and after-school programs, children and adults participate in individual and group programs ranging from those for treatment of swallowing and voice disorders to the BrainBuilders program for clients with dementia. 

* The Ismail Center, which relocated from Lambert Fieldhouse, is a fitness center operated by the Department of Health and Kinesiology, in which students gain clinical experience in health and fitness testing, exercise prescription, exercise leadership, counseling, and management.



* Nursing Center for Family Health, which will be relocated from Johnson Hall, gives nursing students clinical experience when working with faculty to provide free health promotion screenings for Purdue employees, their spouses, graduate students and university retirees.



* Nutritional Training and Research Center provides clinical experience for nutrition science students, and space also will be available for research studies coordinated by faculty in the Department of Nutrition Science.



* Psychology Treatment and Research Clinics deliver psychological services to adults, children and families in the community. The therapists are qualified psychologists-in-training who are supervised by faculty members from the Department of Psychological Sciences.

* The Indiana University Medical School regional site includes a simulation suite, where medical students practice clinical history and physical examination skills by working with actors trained as standardized patients in modern clinical exam rooms. Students acquire procedural and emergency decision-making skills in a simulated hospital room with a realistic computerized manikin, which is a life-sized model used for educational purposes. The IUSM-Lafayette regional site also has expanded to include third- and fourth-year students who do clinical rotations with area physicians in Greater Lafayette area hospitals.

 

Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, 765-494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu

Source: Casey Dexter, director of donor relations and events for the College of Health and Human Sciences, ccdexter@prf.org  

Related news release:

Purdue dedicates building for health research, training, patient services

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2014/Q3/purdue-dedicates-building-for-health-research,-training,-patient-services.html 

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