Children's Hearing Center

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Palo Alto
1000 Welch Road
Suite 10
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Phone: (650) 498-HEAR (4327)
Fax: (650) 736-HEAR (4327)

The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Children's Hearing Center provides a full range of services for children from birth to age 21 with hearing problems. We evaluate, diagnose and treat the entire spectrum of hearing conditions in newborns, infants and children.

Comprehensive Care and Services to Meet All of Your Child’s Hearing Needs

A child and doctor at the Children's Hearing Center

The Children’s Hearing Center provides all of the hearing-related services and products your child may need:

Multidisciplinary, family-centered care
Due to the complex nature of hearing loss in children, our services are provided by a team of pediatric specialists. Our care extends beyond diagnosis and treatment of your child’s hearing loss. It also includes identifying other health problems that may exist, and identifying other family members at risk for hearing loss.

Our team takes a family-centered approach to caring for your child. We work closely with you to provide the hearing-related care that you and your child desire.

Diagnosis
Most children see one of our pediatric audiologists as the first step in diagnosing a hearing condition. Our audiologists are specially trained to assess hearing conditions in infants and children.

The audiologist will perform a comprehensive series of tests to better understand your child’s hearing. The Children’s Hearing Center team reviews the results of those tests to recommend further medical testing if needed and/or determine the most appropriate treatment for the hearing loss.

Treatment
Our highly-skilled pediatric ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeons can provide a full range of treatment options, from ear tube placement to cochlear implantation. These doctors have all had specialized training to perform pediatric ear surgery. They are also faculty members in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University.

Our audiologists are specially trained to provide non-medical/surgical treatments for hearing loss in infants and children. They can provide state-of-the-art hearing instruments and devices as part of your child's comprehensive, individualized hearing (re)habilitation plan.

Ongoing support and monitoring
We work with you and your family to make sure that you understand the information about your child’s hearing loss and the treatment, educational and communication choices that are available for your child.

Throughout your child’s life, we partner with your family and your child’s primary care provider and educators to monitor your child’s progress.

Learn More

For more information, download the Children’s Hearing Center brochure.