Audiology

The Audiology and Hearing Instrument Program at Advocate Children’s Hospital combines clinical excellence with compassionate care in providing diagnostic, counseling, and hearing aid dispensing services. We will provide early and accurate diagnosis for your child and take pride in promoting a well-organized, high-quality, cost-effective environment.

Why choose us?

Our focus and expertise make us the best place to treat your child's hearing.

• We specialize in providing testing for children who are very young or who have previously been difficult to test. Our success rate in obtaining accurate test results makes us a referral source of choice for primary care providers.
• We participate on many multidisciplinary teams where hearing assessment is performed on children with a variety of medical and developmental needs. We provide care through clinics that include neonatal developmental follow-up, cleft palate, Martha Washington, Down syndrome, and school age clinics.
• We assist families with medical, educational, and financial referrals. We accept state funding from Children and Family Connections, Division of Specialized Care for Children, and Medicaid for evaluations and hearing aids.

Our services

We provide a number of services to improve your child's adjustment to audiology issues.

• Provide follow-up for infants who did not pass their newborn hearing screening.
• We work with the state agencies of Public Health and Division of Specialized Care for Children for tracking and funding assistance.
• Utilize state-of-the-art physiological techniques, including Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR), Auditory Steady State Response (ASSR), Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE), tympanometry, and middle ear muscle reflexes to evaluate hearing disorders.
• Dispense a variety of hearing aids, from entry level to the most advanced signal processing. This allows us to meet your child’s hearing needs and your family’s financial needs.

Referrals

To schedule an appointment for pediatric audiology near you, a written order from a licensed physician is required for all hearing and hearing aid evaluations. Advocate Children's Hospital accepts many forms of insurance.