Audiology
No child is too young to have his or her hearing evaluated. Advances in technology have helped the pediatric audiologists in the audiology program at the Nemours Children’s Clinic in Jacksonville reduce the age at which hearing loss can be identified, thus enabling them to provide prompt and appropriate treatment.
Comprehensive services available include behavioral audiometry, tympanometry, auditory brainstem response testing (ABR), and auditory processing testing. Universal newborn hearing screenings are performed at the Wolfson Children’s Hospital/Baptist Medical Center and other area hospitals. Advanced programmable hearing-aid services are available with an on-site earmold and swimmold lab. Counseling and therapeutic intervention are available for the hearing impaired child to maximize benefit from their hearing aid or cochlear implant to develop communication.
Services Available:
- Newborn Hearing Screening Program
- Diagnostic audiologic evaluations - all ages up to the age of 18 years old.
- Tympanometry (middle ear analysis)
- Auditory brainstem response (ABR) test (also known as BAER, BEAR, or AEP)
- Otoacoustic emission testing
- Auditory processing disorder evaluation
- Hearing aid evaluation
- Hearing aid fitting
- Hearing aid supplies (batteries, earmolds, tubing)
- Counseling (relative to hearing loss)
- Custom-made swim molds and plugs
- Noise protection
Typical Diagnoses/Problems:
- Conductive hearing loss
- Sensorineural hearing loss
- Mixed hearing loss
- Central hearing loss
- Auditory processing disorders
- Tinnitus
- Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Dizziness
- Speech delay
- Cerumen impaction
