The Akron Children's Hospital Audiology team diagnoses and treats hearing loss in children. Our goals are to identify hearing loss as early in life as possible, provide access to hearing aids, and coordinate follow-up services for intervention, monitoring and ongoing evaluation.
Our pediatric audiologists are experienced in an array of diagnostics for infants, children, teens, and individuals with neurological and/or developmental complications who are considered difficult to test, including:
The pediatric audiologists are also integrated into the hospital providing inpatient and outpatient evaluations and special services for the Down syndrome program, cystic fibrosis center, autism diagnostic clinic, infant therapy program and cancer survivorship program.
We provide a complete range of hearing aid types (e.g., digital and bone anchored, etc.), including:
In addition, our EARS (Early Auditory Response Strategies) program helps families and physicians get children with hearing loss back on track with services such as amplification (hearing aids) and listening habilitation, speech and language evaluation and therapy, Early Intervention services, infant therapy evaluations, and assistance with coordinating school services, genetics evaluations, and special imaging
The Audiology Department requires a referral from your primary care physician or specialist prior to scheduling an appointment. If your child is under 18 years of age or has an underlying medical condition, clearance from an ENT physician is required before a hearing aid evaluation and fitting.
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We perform a range of pediatric audiology tests including the following:
hearing loss, auditory processing disorders, hearing aids