Hearing Loss Treatments

If a hearing aid is suitable for you, your audiologist will guide you through each step of the process. We help you select a hearing aid and ensure it’s fit and fine-tuned perfectly for you. We’ll give you the training you need, and schedule follow-up visits to make sure you’re happy with your new hearing aid.

We feature hearing aids from several providers, including:

• Phonak
• Oticon
• Widex 
• Resound
• Starkey

We also offer assisted listening devices, including TV ears, caption calling and door, phone and clock alarms. We want you to maintain independence despite background noise or over-distance.

A cochlear implant may be the answer if you have severe hearing loss.

Emory’s board-certified ear surgeons are leaders in cochlear implant placement and research. These small but complex hearing devices have helped thousands of people worldwide with nerve deafness.

A cochlear implant works by stimulating nerves electrically inside your inner ear. All cochlear implants have two main components:

• An internal, implanted receiver and electrode system placed under your scalp, on top of the skull, behind your ear.
• An outside sound processor (microphone) that sits on or near the ear, connected via magnet

The sound processor is a microphone that picks up sounds and sends it to the internal receiver, connected by a magnet.  The internal electrode array that is implanted into the cochlea (hearing organ) receives the sound information and stimulates the auditory nerve, sending the sound to the brain.

A cochlear implant is different than a hearing aid. It stimulates the auditory nerve directly, sending the signals to your brain. Hearing through a cochlear implant is different from normal hearing through the ears and will take months of listening practice before the brain can organize the sound into recognizable speech. We’ll work with you to help you understand speech and recognize warning signals and other sounds.