Who Can Benefit from the Audiology Service?
Any person who is concerned about their hearing or the hearing of a loved one; is having difficulty understanding conversation in select situations; is exposed to loud noises; has ringing (tinnitus) in the ears; is profoundly deaf and would like to explore the option of a cochlear implant; would like to obtain devices to protect their hearing; or a person who needs an audiologist to speak to a group about current and future technology for the hearing impaired individual, can benefit from our services.

What Does the OHSU Audiology Service Provide?

Patient Care

• Diagnostic hearing tests for children and adults
  
• Infant hearing screening and testing
  
• Inpatient audiometric evaluation
  
• Industrial testing
  
• Hearing aid fitting using "Real-Ear" technology
  
• Hearing aid evaluations
  
• Hearing aid dispensing (The Audiology Service dispenses a full range of both analog and digitally programmable hearing aids. The traditional, or analog hearing aids are available in the behind-the-ear (BTE), in-the-ear (ITE), in-the-canal (ITC) and the completely-in-the-canal (CIC) styles. The digitally programmable hearing aids are also available in several styles and provide more flexibility in fitting individuals with high communication demands in a variety of listening environments.)
  
• Custom earplugs for protection from noise and water
  
• Assistive listening devices
  
• Comprehensive cochlear implantation program
  
• Inpatient audiometric evaluation
  
• Electrophysiological evoked potential evaluation: auditory brainstem response (ABR), electrocochleography (ECochG), otoacoustic emissions (OAE), intraoperative auditory and facial nerve monitoring
  
• Vestibular evaluation: electronystagmography (ENG), glycerine/urea testing, posturography

Education

• Inservices to organizations, schools, health care systems and support groups
  
• Auditory rehabilitation courses

Research

• Clinical-based research in areas of hearing disorders
  
• Cochlear implant research site

An audiologist is a health care professional who specializes in:

• evaluation of hearing ability
• evaluation of vestibular function
• rehabilitation of hearing impairment

How to Contact the Audiology Clinic

For more information or to make an appointment, call the Audiology Clinic at (503) 494-5171 (voice/TDD), 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. You may also contact the following Audiology staff members by email: Dr. Donald Plapinger, Amy Johnson, Jennifer Lane.

How You Can Help

The OHSU Audiology Service accepts financial donations, computers and used hearing aids. The Hearing Aid Program provides used reconditioned hearing aids to those individuals who cannot afford the cost of new aids. You can help us maintain this service by donating your old hearing aids to the Hearing Aid Program. If you are interested in making a donation, please call (503) 494-5171.

Other Audiology Resources
Access Audiology
American Academy of Audiology
Oregon Academy of Audiology
Cochlear Implants at OHSU
Central Auditory Processing Disorders
Oregon Speech-Language and Hearing Association
Healthy Hearing
Deafness and Hard of Hearing Resources
Phonak Hearing Systems
FM's Are Wonderful
Self-Help for Hard-of-Hearing People in Oregon
Drugs with Tinnitus Side Effects - from the American Tinnitus Association.
Directory of National Organizations of and for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management Infant (Newborn) Hearing Site Guide
The Listen-Up Web - Helpful links for deaf and hard-of-hearing
Audiology Links - from the Doctors-Worldwide Association
LEND Audiology Fellowship Opportunites - LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities)
Audiology News
Deafweekly

In the News:
Hearing Experts Warn of Loud Music
OregonLive.com, November 21, 2005
OHSU Receives $1 Million NIH Grant to Develop Optical Instrumentation That Helps Visualize Hearing
OHSU News and Information, December 8, 2004
Ion Channel Protein in Inner Ear is Likely Long-sought Key to Hearing
Focus Online, news from Harvard Medical, Dental, and Public Health Schools, October 15, 2004
A Quiet Revolution, Portland Tribune, August 31, 2004
Management Recommendations for Patients with Tinnitus, August 2, 2004
Tinnitus Patients Need Not Suffer in Silence, July 30, 2004
Pacific Northwest Cochlear Implant Association Newsletter, Summer 2000
Mandatory Hearing Tests at Birth
Drug Prevents Hearing Loss Caused by Brain Tumor Therapy, Science Daily, July 1998