LAKESIDE AUDIOLOGY - Key Persons

Dr. Kim Block was awarded Outstanding Audiologist of the Year by the South Carolina Academy of Audiology in 2018. This award is given to an audiologist who... In 2015, Dr. Block opened Lakeside Audiology in response to the great need she observed in her area for evidence-based hearing healthcare for pediatrics and adults. Since then, she has worked tirelessly to build a space where people of any age with hearing loss and hearing concerns can seek the comprehensive and personalized care they deserve. She and her staff provide extensive services in behavioral and electrophysiological hearing evaluation, management of hearing loss through amplification and rehabilitation, cochlear implant evaluation, programming and follow-up care, and contract educational audiology services. She is Board Certified in Audiology and holds Specialty Certification in Pediatric Audiology. Dr. Block is licensed to practice audiology in both North and South Carolina. Outside of her passion for Audiology, her greatest joy is her family. She and her husband, Andrew, are residents of Tega Cay, where they are raising their three daughters.

In 2017 with our move to our own clinic space, we were able to add Dr. Meghan Jensen to our staff. Her professional history and expertise have been the perfect fit for our team. Dr. Meghan Jensen joined the Lakeside Audiology team in 2017. She has extensive experience working with pediatric and adult populations. Her strong background in diagnostics and amplification comes from years of experience working in both medical and private practice settings. A significant amount of her past work experience was gained at Cornerstone Ear, Nose and Throat in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she served as the Director of Audiology Services. Prior to that, she worked in a private practice audiology setting and had numerous internships at larger medical centers in Maryland, where she did her clinical training. Dr. Jensen earned her Master's degree in Audiology from University of Maryland, College Park, and her Doctorate of Audiology from Salus University in Pennsylvania. She holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, and has earned her Specialty Certification in Pediatric Audiology from the American Board of Audiology. Dr. Jensen is licensed to practice in both North and South Carolina. She has proudly served on the Board of Directors for Beginnings of North Carolina, a non-profit organization that serves families of Deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Dr. Jensen resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Matt, and their two young sons.

Shannon Weynand, MS CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVEd is a speech and language pathologist as well as a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS). Shannon grew up in the Charlotte suburbs and earned her Bachelor of Science in Linguistics as well as her Master's of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at Chapel Hill, Shannon spent two semesters training under the guidance of the Children's Cochlear Implant Center at UNC. After graduation, Shannon worked in a unique integrated environment at The River School in Washington, DC, which placed children with hearing loss from preschool to third grade in classrooms with typically developing children. There she provided both parent-coaching through auditory-verbal therapy as well as push-in therapy for the children with hearing loss in both the preschool and school-age classroom settings. For the past two years, she has worked in a private practice setting with children with a variety of speech and language delays. In addition to collaborating with families, educators, and audiologists, Shannon is especially passionate about spreading the knowledge of LSL principles around the world and has helped train educators in India with Ending All Roads to Silence (EARS) as well as in Vietnam and Mongolia with the Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss. In 2019, Shannon sat for her LSLS Exam and earned the designation of Auditory-Verbal Educator (AVEd). As part of her certification, she logged over 900 client hours working with children with hearing loss and their families. Shannon is licensed to practice speech therapy in both North and South Carolina. Shannon currently lives in Charlotte with her husband Bryan, son Robert, and their slightly crazy Australian Shepherd.