Pediatric Audiology at Wellstar Children’s Hospital of Georgia

Specialized Care for Children with Hearing Disorders

If you have concerns about your child’s hearing or auditory development, we are here to help. Our pediatric audiologists work with pediatric otolaryngologists (ENT), pediatricians, pediatric oncologists, neurologists, speech pathologists and school audiologists to offer diagnosis and treatment for children with a range of hearing disorders.

Families count on our highly trained team to perform audiological testing on children with genetic or acquired hearing loss through comprehensive screening and evaluation. When it comes to treatment, we are the only specialists in the CSRA that can provide hearing aids, bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA) and cochlear implants.

Conditions we treat

We support and care for infants and children with various hearing disorders, including:

• Conductive, mixed and sensorineural hearing loss
• Tinnitus
• Cholesteatoma
• Balance disturbance/vertigo

We also have experience in evaluating and treating children with craniofacial or genetic disorders, including:

• Down syndrome
• Goldenhar syndrome
• Treacher Collins syndrome
• Microtia and atresia
• Cleft lip/palate
• Pendred syndrome
• Kabuki syndrome
• Noonan syndrome

Our services

At Wellstar Children’s, we use state-of-the-art screening tools to conduct hearing evaluations and recommend the best treatment for pediatric patients.

Evaluation and testing

• Audiological/hearing evaluations
• Sedated and natural sleep auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing
• Evaluation for BAHA and cochlear implants, which are surgically implanted devices that can help with hearing loss
• BAHA programming and cochlear implant mapping
• Ototoxic monitoring

Treatments

• Hearing aids
• BAHA
• Cochlear implants

Newborn screenings

We perform hearing screenings for newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Wellstar Children’s Hospital of Georgia. If a child did not have their hearing screened in the hospital or did not pass their newborn hearing screening, they are seen for follow-up testing by our pediatric audiology team.