In addition to various kinds of hearing testing, Audiology addresses patients' long-term needs by helping them to understand and effectively use assistive listening devices, including hearing aids, warning devices, and other tools to assist communication in their daily lives. The Balance Disorders Clinic examines patients with problems of dizziness, abnormal eye movement, and delayed motor development. Because disorders of this kind can cause problems in a child's personal and educational development, early detection and resolution are important. The goal of this center is to help hearing impaired and normal hearing children to communicate to the best of their ability. Audiologists, speech and language pathologists, teachers of the hearing impaired, and family specialists work together with parents and their children in support of that goal.
Professionals also provide therapy in voice and stuttering.
Hearing Research The Center for Hearing Research conducts one of the largest hearing research programs in the world. Scientists in this program perform research on the nervous system, hearing, speech, and language. Discovering how these systems work and moving that knowledge from the lab to the clinic is an important part of improving patient care. This center studies genes that are associated with communication problems such as hereditary deafness. An extensive research program is devoted to the mapping and cataloging of genes that affect human hearing.