Clinical Audiology Services

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.

Developmentally appropriate diagnostic audiologic evaluations for children and infants/toddlers are customized to the child’s individual needs, with developmentally-appropriate behavioral and objective measures.

The Northeastern University Speech-Language-Hearing Center is one of the few facilities in Massachusetts to offer central auditory processing evaluations, or CAP assessments. We specialize in determining if students have CAPD. We provide schools, the community, and families with appropriate recommendations to best accommodate the student’s listening needs.

Children need to be at least seven years old to have a CAP Evaluation.

In children between 3 and 5 years of age, hearing screenings can help identify hearing loss that may affect development, interfere with future performance in school, or indicate a medical condition (e.g., middle or inner ear disorder). Northeastern provides hearing community-based hearing screenings to various Head Start and preschool based programs. Please contact us at 617-373-2492 for further 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.