Our Team Will Partner with Your Family To Treat Pediatric Hearing Loss
Childhood is filled with a variety of sounds, and our providers at ENT for Children are dedicated to ensuring that our young patients can hear them. Hearing aids are small amplifiers that allow a child to hear more clearly by making incoming sounds louder. The primary goal of the devices is to help your child fully engage with the sounds of their world, and ENT for Children will partner with your family to determine if the technology will be a good fit.
Care Is Customized to Your Child’s Needs
Your child’s audiologist at ENT for Children will diagnose the severity and type of your child’s hearing loss with an audiogram or ABR before recommending an appropriate hearing aid. In some cases, two hearing aids will be necessary if both of your child’s ears are affected.
Hearing Treatment Options
If your child has a severe or profound degree of sensorineural hearing loss, hearing aids may not adequately correct their hearing loss. In situations where hearing aids are no longer sufficient to correct your child’s hearing loss, we may recommend a cochlear implant.
We’re Here Each Step of the Way
From the very beginning, our providers will help your child make the most of their hearing aids and ensure they feel comfortable with them.
The Hearing Aid Fitting Process
Your pediatric audiologist will fit your child with hearing aids by making a mold impression of the outer ear and ear canal.
Then, they will send the ear mold to a lab where a high-grade silicone ear mold is made that will later be attached to your child’s hearing aid.
Your child’s ear mold will need to be remade as their ear grows. An indication that your child’s ear mold is no longer fitting properly is if the hearing aid emits a squealing or high-pitched whistling sound (feedback).
Along with the initial fitting appointment, we’ll have several follow-up sessions where we ensure that the hearing aids are working correctly and share strategies for better communication while using them.
Whether you’re just starting out or have questions mid-way, we want to build a relationship with your family that will last beyond the initial fitting.
Healthcare Is Easier as a Team Effort
With ENT for Children by your child’s side, you aren’t just getting a hearing aid. You’re entering a partnership for your child’s care, and our team will be here to support your family at any stage of the treatment process. We’ll ensure our treatment helps connect your child with the sounds of their world.
Call ENT for Children for more information or to schedule an appointment.