Pediatric Hearing Loss

Pediatric hearing loss services at UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center in Worcester provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services to evaluate a child's hearing. The service is approved as a high-risk infant screening center for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and is certified by the Professional Service Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Pediatric Hearing Loss Services

  • Routine hearing testing
  • Otoacoustic emission testing
  • Cochlear implant evaluations
  • Specialized pediatric testing
  • Sedated auditory brainstem response evaluations
  • Central auditory processing evaluations
  • Site of lesion testing
  • Baseline audiograms for chemotherapy patients
  • Hearing aid evaluations