Gebbie Clinic
Dedicated: November 4, 1972
Architects: King and King of Syracuse
Location: Corner of South Crouse and Marshall Streets ( a wing on the Gordon D. Hoople Special Education and Rehabilitation Building)
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See also The Syracuse University Record, Vol. 3, No. 11, November 2, 1972.
The Gebbie Clinic is the new wing of the Gordon D. Hoople Special Education and Rehabilitation Building at the corner of South Crouse Avenue and Marshall Street. The clinic is a diagnostic screening and referral center created to serve persons with learning and/or communication difficulties, and to provide aid and support to their families. The clinic takes its name from the Gebbie Foundation of Jamestown, N.Y., which was incorporated in 1963 to provide financial support for medical and scientific research to alleviate human suffering.
Faculty members and students providing the service come from all areas of the Division of Special Education and Rehabilitation - mental retardation, emotional disturbance, speech and audiology, rehabilitation counseling and special education administration - as well as from related disciplines within Syracuse University, such as social work, psychology and medicine.
The design of the modern, partially subterranean facility was the work of the Syracuse architecture firm of King & King. It includes classrooms, a children's playroom, interviewing and counseling rooms, a suite of four soundproof audiology chambers used for hearing evaluations, and a lounge and reception area for patients and parents. All clinical space is designed to allow for direct but unobtrusive observation for teaching and supervision, through the use of observation rooms, one-way glass and audio or video recording equipment.
