Our Services

Our expert staff of Audi­gyC­er­ti­fied™ pro­fes­sion­als pro­vide ser­vices to those from new­born to over a hun­dred years old. These include basic behav­ioral tests and sophis­ti­cated com­put­er­ized otoneu­ro­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions. When appro­pri­ate, the lat­est dig­i­tal hear­ing instru­ments may be uti­lized to help com­pen­sate for a hear­ing impair­ment. For indi­vid­u­als who work in high noise areas, we admin­is­ter Hear­ing Con­ser­va­tion Pro­grams in accor­dance with OSHA guidelines.

Diag­nos­tic Test­ing
If a hear­ing loss is sus­pected, an appoint­ment with one of our cer­ti­fied Audi­ol­o­gists should be made for the pur­poses of test­ing and evaluation.

After the age of 50, a reg­u­lar hear­ing test should be con­sid­ered as impor­tant as one’s yearly phys­i­cal checkup.

Test­ing is pain­less, com­fort­able and safe. Basi­cally, it con­sists of answer­ing ques­tions about your hear­ing health, rec­og­niz­ing every­day words at dif­fer­ent vol­ume lev­els, and iden­ti­fy­ing dif­fer­ent sounds.

Your abil­ity to hear each tone, or fre­quency, pro­duces a unique hear­ing pat­tern which is recorded on an audiogram.

The test is com­pleted in a sound booth using ear­phones and bone con­duc­tion oscil­la­tor. The Audi­ol­o­gist then uses the audio­gram to deter­mine the type and sever­ity of hear­ing loss. These tests should help deter­mine whether a hear­ing loss is best treated med­ically or with hear­ing aids.

ENG Test — Electronys­tag­mo­gram
The ENG test is prob­a­bly one of the most use­ful tests to diag­nose “dizzy” com­plaints in which other obvi­ous causes such as ear infec­tion, head injury or cer­tain med­ica­tion “side effects” are not involved.

The ENG is a series of tests designed to eval­u­ate the inner-ear’s vestibu­lar mech­a­nism. This test elec­tron­i­cally deter­mines the responses of the bal­ance mech­a­nisms of the vestibu­lar sys­tem. These responses are expressed through eye move­ments which are recorded by elec­trodes applied to the skin of the face.

This test is per­formed at our offices.

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Tin­ni­tus Eval­u­a­tion and Treat­ment
For patients suf­fer­ing with tin­ni­tus (“ring­ing in the ears”) we offer sev­eral diag­nos­tic tests and self-assessment sur­veys to deter­mine the cause of the tin­ni­tus and its psy­cho­log­i­cal impact. Tests are per­formed to deter­mine if the cause of the tin­ni­tus is related to mid­dle ear or inner ear prob­lems as well as pos­si­ble audi­tory nerve abnor­mal­i­ties. The tone or pitch of the tin­ni­tus as well as its vol­ume is also deter­mined to help assess the best man­age­ment option. These options may include dietary changes, med­ica­tion review, mask­ing devices, hear­ing aids, or Tin­ni­tus Retrain­ing ther­apy (TRT).

Dis­pens­ing of Dig­i­tal Hear­ing Aids
All patients undergo a com­pre­hen­sive hear­ing exam prior to receiv­ing hear­ing aids to deter­mine the cause and extent of the loss. A detailed case his­tory is also com­pleted. Once a patient becomes a can­di­date for hear­ing aids based upon their hear­ing hand­i­cap all options are dis­cussed with the patient includ­ing style of the hear­ing instru­ment and tech­nol­ogy level required to meet their com­mu­ni­ca­tion goals. The hear­ing aids are then pro­grammed to match their unique hear­ing loss. At this point every patient under­goes com­pre­hen­sive instruc­tion on how to lis­ten again. Empha­sis is placed on how the brain must relearn to focus on spe­cific sounds that the indi­vid­ual wants to pay atten­tion to and ignore irrel­e­vant noises. All patients are also instructed on use and care of the hear­ing instru­ments and follow-up tests are per­formed to assure opti­mal pro­gram­ming of the aids.

Hear­ing Aid Checks and Ser­vic­ing
The cor­ner­stone of our cus­tomer ser­vice is the follow-up our patients receive once fit with hear­ing aids. Most patients ini­tially require 3–4 office vis­its to under­stand how to once again lis­ten and how to take care of their new hear­ing aids. Sub­se­quent hear­ing aid adjust­ments or trou­ble shoot­ing is always avail­able at no charge for the life of the hear­ing instru­ments. In fact, most patients can be seen for hear­ing aid related prob­lems the day they call. In addi­tion, all patients receive our quar­terly newslet­ter to keep them informed of the lat­est research into hear­ing dis­or­ders and tech­no­log­i­cal improve­ments. Finally, all patients are sched­uled for an annual hear­ing exam to retest their nat­ural hear­ing and clean and check the hear­ing aids.

Assis­tive Lis­ten­ing Devices (ALDs)
When a patient has a hear­ing loss some­times an assis­tive lis­ten­ing device (ALD) is required in addi­tion to or instead of a hear­ing aid. ALDs can be ampli­fied tele­phones, TV enhancers, visual smoke and door­bell alarms and a vari­ety of other items designed to keep the hear­ing impaired in touch with their envi­ron­ment. We have a num­ber of these items in our office for demon­stra­tion where their ben­e­fits can be quickly observed. Because this tech­nol­ogy is so quickly evolv­ing we always have access to the lat­est infor­ma­tion and can spe­cial order any ALD.

Hear­ing Screen­ing for Infants
We are proud to be one of the cer­ti­fied sites for infant hear­ing eval­u­a­tion. Uti­liz­ing state-of-the-art tech­nol­ogy and a highly trained staff we offer new­born hear­ing screen­ing and follow-up as needed. We work closely with local pedi­a­tri­cians to deter­mine if a hear­ing loss in an infant is present and the extent and cause of the impair­ment. When needed we also pro­vide hear­ing aid coun­sel­ing and fit­ting and have fit chil­dren as young as 5 months of age.