Hearing and Speech
Hearing and Speech
The Hearing and Speech Clinic at Children's Mercy diagnoses and treats a wide variety of concerns related to your child’s hearing and speech abilities. Our expert care team uses the latest technological innovations to provide the best possible care for your child. We provide both inpatient and outpatient services for hearing and speech needs.
Meet our expert hearing and speech staff
Team members in the Hearing and Speech clinic include audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and auditory-verbal therapists. You may work with one or more of our providers depending on your child’s specific needs.
All our audiologists and speech-language pathologists have a master's degree or doctorate in their respective fields. All providers hold certification in their area of expertise in audiology or speech-language pathology.
Teaming up to provide excellent care for your child
Children’s Mercy Hearing and Speech team members work closely with several other clinics and programs across the hospital. These include:
Clinical Services
Audiology
Evaluation
When doing a hearing evaluation, an audiologist picks different tests for each child based on age and developmental level. These tests may include:
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Sound-booth evaluations
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Otoacoustic emission testing
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Auditory brainstem response
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Sedated ABR
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Sleep deprived ABR
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Play conditioned audiometry
Services Provided
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Testing a Child's Hearing
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Hearing Aids
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Early Intervention
Speech and language
Evaluation
Speech-language pathologists at the Hearing and Speech Clinic do many evaluations, including:
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Speech and language evaluation (an audiologist also does a hearing evaluation at this time)
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Chronic cough/paradoxic vocal cord dysfunction evaluation
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Reading/dyslexia evaluation
Services Provided
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Speech Evaluations
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Speech Therapy
Conditions
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Academic language disorders
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Apraxia of speech
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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
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Cognitive disorders
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Developmental delay
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Dyslexia
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Fluency disorders (stuttering)
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Hearing loss--suspected and confirmed
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Language disorders (expressive, pragmatic, receptive)
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Orofacial myofunctional disorders
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Pediatric head trauma or neurological injuries
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Resonance and those associated with cleft palate or velopharyngeal dysfunction
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Swallowing
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Voice disorders
Hearing and speech staff
We have a world-class staff and all audiologists and speech-language pathologists have a master's degree, a doctorate or a Ph.D. in their respective fields. They hold a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in audiology or speech-language pathology, which is granted by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Audiology staff
Audiology is a part of science that works with hearing, balance and related problems. Audiologists are health care workers who diagnose, manage and treat hearing problems.
Speech-language pathology staff
Speech-language pathologists help children develop communication skills and work with problems with speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, swallowing and fluency. They are commonly referred to as speech pathologists.