The Audiology Clinic at the pediatric rehabiliation clinic in Burnsville helps children with hearing loss identify and maximize their communication potential. Children are tested with age-appropriate methods including auditory brain stem testing for newborns and infants. Play-based testing is used for toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children.

Our licensed audiologist has advanced expertise in evaluating and treating a wide range of hearing impairments and prescribing and programming hearing instruments, including cochlear implants.

Cochlear Implants
For children with severe to profound hearing loss who receive limited benefit from hearing aids, our Cochlear Implant Program provides expert clinical care. Cochlear implants are electronic devices designed to restore some degree of hearing in severely-to-profoundly hard-of-hearing people. Unlike hearing aids, which amplify sound and require use of remaining hair cells in the cochlea, cochlear implants bypass the damaged hair cells in the inner ear by using electrical impulses to directly stimulate the auditory nerve fibers.

Services include evaluation of patients for implant, surgical implantation by ENT surgeons, programming of the device and aural rehabilitation with a speech-language pathologist with expertise in hearing loss. Care is provided by a multi-disciplinary team of experienced audiologists, ENT physicians, speech-language pathologists, psychologist and pediatric behavioral pediatrician. Fairview Audiology Clinic offers a support group for cochlear implant patients and their families.