St. Louis

Adult Audiology Clinic

The St. Joseph Institute Adult Audiology clinic provides a complete array of audiology services and hearing aid dispensing to adults. Hearing loss is present in 3 out of every 10 adults between the ages of 50 and 64 and 4 out of every 10 adults over the age of 65.

The Adult Audiology Clinic provides personalized consultation and evaluation, sales and services of digital hearing aids, and assistive device sale. Complete orientation and training on all products is also provided.

Signs that you may have a hearing loss and should get a hearing evaluation:

• Friends and family complain that the television is too loud
• You are missing things you once enjoyed (birds chirping, music)
• You have difficulty hearing females voices or children
• You have difficulty hearing in groups
• You sometimes confuse words or misunderstand conversations

Services and tests available at the SJI Adult Audiology Clinic:

• Tympanometry
• Pure tone audiometry
• Acoustic reflexes and reflex decay
• Otoacoustic emissions
• Speech understanding in quite and in noise
• Real ear measures
• Functional gain testing
• Cochlear implant counseling
• Cochlear implant evaluation
• Hearing aid and cochlear implant programming
• Hearing aid and cochlear implant supplies