The Cochlear Implant Center provides expanded resources and opportunities for research so that the newest and best devices and services can be made available to our patients.

Cochlear Implant Program Overview - Clinical Services - Audiology

Our team of experts provides comprehensive audiologic services for children and adults, from initial identification and/or confirmation of hearing loss in infants to post-operative cochlear implant follow-up. These services are provided by the collaboration of several departments within Boys Town National Research Hospital: Clinical Audiology, led by Dr. Pat Stelmachowicz, Evoked Potentials services, led by Dr. Michael Gorga, and the Cochlear Implant Program, led by Dr. Michelle Hughes. Audiologic services include:

• Basic Audiometric testing
• Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) testing
• Otoacoustic Emissions
• Vestibular testing
• Earmold and hearing aid services
• Assistive listening devices/FM systems
• Intra-operative cochlear implant testing
• Cochlear implant speech processor programming and follow-up tuning
• Cochlear implant device troubleshooting
• Speech perception testing
• Aided sound-field testing
• Neural Response Telemetry (Nucleus devices)
• Neural Response Imaging (Clarion devices)
• Electrically evoked stapedial reflex testing