About UsAmerican Family Hearing Center has been serving the Jersey Shore's communities for over 40 years, originally in Asbury Park and later moving to its present location at 402 Main Street in Allenhurst.
Jennifer Schaal-Sampson, AuD, CCC-A has owned American Family Hearing Center since 1995. She completed her Doctorate in Audiology in August, 2000. She is a New Jersey licensed audiologists and hearing aid dispensers. Through the years, American Family Hearing Center has helped thousands of patients with achieve better hearing and we are committed to providing the highest possible patient satisfaction.
Dr. Schaal-Sampson was one of the first Audiologists in the State of New Jersey to complete the Doctorate of Audiology through the University of Florida. She is member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association and fellow of the American Academy of Audiology. Dr. Schaal-Sampson attended Douglass College at Rutgers University for her Bachelor's degree in Speech and Hearing Science and received her Master's in Audiology from George Washington University. She received her clinical doctorate in Audiology from the University of Florida in 2000. She has been working as an Audiologist and Hearing Aid Dispenser since 1993 in a variety of clinical settings. In March 1995, she purchased American Family Hearing Center in Allenhurst. As the owner of American Family Hearing Center, she has upgraded the facility and added advanced diagnostic and hearing aid fitting techniques including: central auditory processing testing and digital hearing aids. She provides audiology and hearing aid services to several area nursing homes and has had a satellite office at Seabrook Village Medical since 1999. She has also be an adjunct faculty member at the College of New Jersey.
Dr. Shelley Hamilton has been practicing audiology since 1992. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Hearing and Speech Sciences from the University of Maryland in College Park, her Master’s degree in Audiology from Trenton State College and her Doctor Of Audiology from Arizona School of Health Sciences. She is licensed as a hearing aid dispenser by the states of New Jersey and New York. Shelley worked for five years as an educational audiologist, working with deaf children at Hearing Education Services in New York City. During her college days, she chose to combine the fields of speech and hearing sciences with audiology in order to better understand and provide treatment and care for the needs of those persons who are hard of hearing. “There are many gratifying experiences working with patients in private practice,” she says. “I’ve also been fortunate in my career to work with and help deaf students in New York City in the communication process.” Shelley’s area of expertise is in hearing aid dispensing and educational audiology, with emphasis on classroom amplification systems and assistive listening devices. She is a member of the American Academy of Audiology and a certificate holder of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Shelley was raised along the shoreline in Wall Township, New Jersey and has returned to the area to raise her own family. |
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