DC Audiology is equipped to handle all of your audiological needs.  Click to learn more about the field of Audiology and the role of an Audiologist; browse the topics below to learn more about the services we provide.

Evaluation Center

DC Audiology is also the first digital testing and diagnostic center in the Washington, DC area.  The Audiology staff can provide complete diagnostic evaluations of your hearing, balance and brainstem, with the ability to forward your test results almost instantaneously to your referring physician.  In concert to providing "digital" services, the Audiology staff dispenses several types of hearing aids including aids that utilize fully digital technology. 
 

Audiology

Audiology is a health care profession concerned with the study of both normal and disordered hearing. The profession evolved from closely related fields such as speech-language pathology, medicine, special education, psychology, and hearing instrumentation.  The term Audiology, in the most literal sense, refers to the science of hearing.
 

Hearing Evaluation

Pure-tone audiometry is completed in a soundproof booth- a room with special treatment to the walls, ceiling, and floor to ensure that background noise does not affect test results. Only those sounds that the audiologist introduces into the room, either through earphones or through speakers located in the room, will be heard.

Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR)

Unlike a hearing evaluation, which evaluates how well you hear sound, an auditory brainstem response test (ABR) evaluates how well the sounds travel along the hearing nerve pathways to a particular part of the brain called the brainstem.