Audiology

Audiology provides advanced diagnostic and electrophysiologic testing for adults and children with hearing loss. A full-service hearing aid dispensing program offers a wide range of fully digital instruments as well as other assistive listening devices.

The UCSF Audiology Clinic works closely with a variety of medical departments to provide state-of-the-art audiologic testing for individuals of all ages. Comprehensive evaluation and treatment is provided for hearing loss, hyperacusis, tinnitus and dizziness, vertigo and balance-related disorders.

Cochlear implantation, the electrical stimulation of the inner ear for the rehabilitation of profound deafness, is performed by the Douglas Grant Cochlear Implant Center. In addition, UCSF otolaryngologists — or ear, nose and throat specialists — can provide treatment for other ear and temporal bone disorders.

The audiology clinic offers communication need assessments, assistive listening device evaluation and dispensing, and a wide range of procedures and services including:

• Auditory brainstem, middle latency and late evoked response testing
• Aural rehabilitation
• Balance therapy
• Custom hearing protection and musicians' earplugs
• Electrocochleography (ECochG)
• Electronystagmography (ENG and VNG)
• Hearing aid electroacoustic analysis
• Medical and legal audiologic evaluation
• Listening and communication enhancement (LACE)
• Middle ear function assessment
• Otoacoustic emission testing
• Ototoxicity monitoring
• Pediatric audiology and infant testing
• Real ear probe microphone testing
• Vestibular rehabilitation

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Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Medical Center.
Last updated December 10, 2007