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Audiology

Children’s – Minneapolis
(612) 813-6709

Children’s - St. Paul
(651) 220-6880

Children’s West
(952) 930-8630

Services

  • Comprehensive hearing evaluations for newborns, infants, children, and teens, including:


- Visual reinforcement audiometry (VRA)
- Conditioned play audiometry (CPA)
- Standard audiometry
- Speech audiometry, including word recognition testing
- Tympanometry and acoustic reflex testing
- Brainstem audiometry (ABR or BAER)
- Otoacoustic emissions (TAOEs and DPOAEs)

  • Hearing evaluations also performed through interdisciplinary clinics, including cleft and craniofacial clinic, developmental pediatrics clinic, and Down syndrome clinic.
  • Consultation and follow-up testing for newborn hearing screening programs in the nursery and NICU.
  • Periodic monitoring of hearing for children on ototoxic medication and for children with chronic illnesses or medical conditions that put them at higher risk for hearing loss.
  • Recommendations and fittings for hearing aids, FM amplification, or other assistive listening devices.
  • Evaluation of hearing aids and FM systems through electroacoustic analysis (real ear and text box) and sound field testing.
  • Family education regarding auditory and communication
    development, hearing conservation, hearing loss, and
    educational programming.