Speech-Language and Hearing Center
Audiology Clinic

Diagnostic hearing evaluations identify hearing loss and give your audiologist important information to help determine the best course of action for treatment. Some types of hearing loss can be treated medically or surgically, so it’s important that these types of hearing losses be ruled out before hearing aids or other treatments are considered.

The diagnostic hearing evaluation consists of a variety of tests to determine the unique aspects of your hearing loss, as well as the level at which you can detect and understand speech.

Audiological evaluations are customized for clients aged 4 years and older using developmentally-appropriate, subjective and objective measures.

Aural Rehabilitation (AR) is provided to help diminish or eliminate the negative impact of hearing loss on one’s life. 

AR helps individuals to adjust to living with hearing loss by teaching communication strategies, speechreading and lipreading skills, auditory training, self-advocacy skills, and use of hearing assistive technology. 

Our center is one of the few facilities in Massachusetts that offers central auditory processing (CAP) evaluations. We specialize in diagnosing and treating individuals with central auditory processing disorder (CAPD). We provide recommendations for academic and work environments to support the success of the individual with CAPD.

Please complete the intake form below and send it along with the most recent individual education plan, academic testing, and speech and language evaluation to [email protected]. Once the application package is reviewed and approved for testing, you will be contacted, and your evaluation date will be scheduled. Please note that children under the age of seven years old may not be approved for testing.

Hearing screenings are a vital tool to identify undiagnosed hearing loss in children. Unidentified and untreated hearing loss will negatively affect a child’s development and school performance. Northeastern provides community-based hearing screenings to various school programs for children aged 4 years old and older. Please contact us at 617-373-2492 for additional information.

Musicians need to protect their hearing, but they also need to be able to hear their own music clearly, as well as hear other musicians’ music and voices while performing.

• Musicians face nearly four times greater risk of developing hearing loss and are 57% more likely to develop tinnitus due to exposure to loud noise.
• Almost any instrument can harm your hearing, if played loud enough over a long period of time. They can be just as damaging as power tools.

• We offer Custom Musician’s Earplugs with a choice of ER9, ER15, or ER25 dB filters.
• One set of filters comes with the custom earplugs; however additional filters can be purchased separately to protect all your listening needs.

Designed for musicians who perform for large audiences, in-ear musician monitors are the current standard in musician technology. They allow the musician to clearly hear the music they are making as the audience would hear it while still protecting the musician’s ears from extremely loud amplification systems and audiences.

There are many steps that are part of a hearing aid evaluation. If you suspect that you might need a hearing aid, you will first need to have a hearing evaluation. The audiologist will review the type of hearing loss as well as how it is affecting a patient’s life and recommend the “best fit” with the patient’s medical condition, lifestyle, and budget from a variety of hearing aid models.

When the hearing aid arrives, a patient will return to work with the audiologist to fine tune the incoming sounds using a special computer program.

Significant technological advances have been made to improve digital amplification. Many of the new digital aids can be easily adjusted for background and environmental noises, improving patient satisfaction.

We carry full lines of Phonak, Oticon, Widex, Starkey and Siemens hearing aids.