Corewell Health Children’s in Southeast Michigan
Hearing care for a confident, connected life
Audiologists specialize in diagnosing, preventing, and treating conditions that affect hearing and balance. If you’re finding it more difficult to understand conversations, enjoy music, or feel steady on your feet, we can help. Our expert team offers personalized care, from sophisticated hearing tests to advanced treatments like cochlear implants, balance therapy, and aural rehabilitation.
Conditions we treat
Here are some of the common audiology conditions we address:
Auditory processing disorders (APD)
APD can make it hard to interpret sounds or words due to issues with how your brain processes auditory information.
Excessive earwax
Healthy ears are usually self-cleaning. But if you have an excess of earwax, we can remove it easily and effectively.
Hearing loss
Hearing loss can occur at any age. We help you identify the root causes and find the best solutions, such as medications, hearing aids, cochlear implants, surgery, or other methods.
Tinnitus
People with tinnitus hear constant ringing, buzzing, hissing, or clicking sounds in one or both ears.
Vestibular disorders
Several inner ear conditions (such as Ménière’s disease) can affect your sense of balance and cause dizziness and vertigo.
Services we offer
Symptoms like hearing loss and vertigo can have many different root causes. Our audiology team provides a wide variety of diagnostic tools and procedures to identify which part of your ear isn’t working properly. Then, we’ll work alongside ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialists, speech-language pathologists, surgeons, and others to deliver personalized and effective treatments.
Diagnostic tests
Brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER)
Measures brainwaves to detect hearing loss and nervous system disorders.
Hearing tests
We test how well you can hear different sounds, words, and speech using air conduction, bone conduction, and speech reception methods.
Otoacoustic emissions testing
Measures how well your inner ear is working by playing a tone and listening for faint echoing vibrations in the small hairs of the inner ear.
Speech reception testing
Determines how loud words need to be spoken for you to hear and repeat them.
Tympanometry and impedance audiology
This procedure tests how well the middle ear is functioning.
Vestibular assessments
Checking for balance issues using special tests, like electronystagmography, which helps detect inner ear problems.
Treatments
Assistive listening devices
Tools that make it easier to have conversations in noisy or large spaces, such as microphones and personal hearing devices.
Aural rehabilitation
This program helps you adjust to hearing aids and learn to communicate better.
Cochlear implants and hearing aids
Fitting and programming hearing aids (including traditional air conduction and bone conduction devices) or cochlear implants to improve hearing.
Surgery
For some types of hearing loss, surgery may be needed.
Telephone and listening devices
Technologies such as amplified or captioning telephones can help make telephone conversations easier.
Vestibular Rehabilitation Training (VRT)
Uses exercises to decrease dizziness and retrains your brain to build back balance.
Pediatric audiology
We offer specialized care for children, including newborn screenings, child hearing tests, rehabilitation programs, and early intervention to support their growth and development.
Specialized regional clinics
Our audiology centers, located throughout Michigan, provide everything from routine hearing tests to advanced diagnostics and treatment. This includes the Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals Audiology and Balance Center, which specializes in building personalized rehabilitation and therapy plans for balance issues, based on testing from state-of-the-art diagnostic technology.
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