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• Improve the care and quality of life for children with hearing impairment by providing optimal and innovative medical and surgical management.
• Advance our understanding of the biological basis for normal hearing and deafness through cutting-edge molecular research.

Auditory Genetics
Hearing impairment represents the most common sensory deficit in children. Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) or "nerve deafness" represents the most...More>>

Cochlear Implants
Cochlear implants represent one of the greatest advances in medicine in the management of children with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss...More>>

Genetic Testing
After hearing loss has been identified in a child, a comprehensive evaluation is begun to seek the cause. Most cases of hearing loss are from an obvious cause...More>>

Normal hearing depends upon transmission of sound through the ear canal, eardrum and the three bones (ossicles) located in the middle ear space: the malleus, incus and stapes. Due to problems such as chronic ear infections, cholesteatoma, congenital defects or even trauma...More>>