Tests and Treatments at the Children's Hearing Center

We offer gene testing when the cause of the hearing loss is unknown.

We take a blood or saliva sample from your child and can alert you to a health condition that may need treatment.

Our audiologist decides what hearing tests are best for your child's age and hearing problems.

We often do more than one hearing test to get a full sense of your child's hearing loss.

The tests may involve devices or sensors on your child's head or playing tones of varied volumes and pitches.

All tests are completely safe, and you can stay with your child for the testing.

Your child's ear, nose, and throat (ENT) doctor may order an MRI or CT scan.

These scans can detect an abnormality, a tumor, or another problem in the small ear bones.

Our speech pathologists can tell if your child's hearing loss is affecting their speech and decide if speech therapy would help.

We offer a range of these devices. The most common is a microphone for your child's teacher.

We program your child's cochlear implant or hearing aid to amplify the teacher's voice and reduce background noise.

Our hearing experts use high-tech and innovative methods to help children train their brains to ignore certain sounds.

Research shows this treatment works well for children who have ringing in the ears.

Implants help children with hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea or hearing nerve.

The device skips over the damaged parts of the inner ear and sends signals directly to the hearing nerve.

During surgery, the surgeon implants an internal device to your child's skull bone and positions the electrode to stimulate the nerve. Your child will be under anesthesia for the surgery and can go home the same day.

Your child will need to come back in a few weeks so we can fit the outer part of the device. It sits on the scalp behind the ear — much like a hearing aid — and converts sound to signals.

We'll also book follow-up appointments to make sure your child has the best possible hearing outcome.

Hearing aids treat mild to severe hearing loss in children. We offer in-ear, behind-the-ear, and bone-anchored hearing aids.

Our hearing experts will:

• Talk to you about your child's needs and choose the best option.
• Program your child's hearing aid to heighten the tones your child has trouble hearing.
• Schedule follow-up visits to retest your child's hearing and adjust the hearing aid as needed.

Our speech therapists work with kids of all ages and abilities to help them communicate using engaging techniques.

Depending on your child's hearing problem and needs, they may have 1 to 4 sessions a month. Most speech therapy sessions last an hour.