Fairview Audiology and Aural Rehabilitation Clinic at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview  helps individuals with hearing loss identify and maximize their communication potential.

Our audiologists have Master’s or Doctoral degrees in Audiology to ensure the highest level of diagnostic and rehabilitative hearing services. Our licensed audiologists have advanced expertise in evaluating and treating a wide range of hearing impairments, as well as prescribing and programming hearing instruments and cochlear implants. Our audiologists are exceptionally experienced professionals, averaging 15 years of service to our patients. Our audiologists are leaders in providing the most up-to-date hearing health care and technology in the community.

Services  we offer:

• Diagnostic hearing evaluations for all ages 
• Otoacoustic emission testing
• Auditory brainstem testing 
• Facial nerve testing (electroneuronography)
• Electrocochleaography
• Stacked auditory brainstem response testing, CHAMPs evaluations and
  steady-state potentials
• Prescribing, fitting and dispensing hearing aids 
• Adult hearing aid orientation classes 
• Tinnitus evaluations
• Cochlear implants for adults and children 
• Auditory processing evaluations
• Aural (hearing) rehabilitation

Comprehensive Hearing Evaluation
Fairview Audiology and Aural Rehabilitation Clinic provides comprehensive hearing evaluations for children and adults. Children are tested with age-appropriate methods including otoacoustic emissions and auditory brain stem testing for newborns and infants. Play-based testing is used for toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children.

Hearing Aids
We offer comprehensive hearing aid evaluations; fitting of a wide range of conventional, programmable and digital hearing instruments; and follow-up services. Consultations, surgery, fitting and follow-up for bone-anchored hearing aids are provided in conjunction with physicians specializing in otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat [ENT]). We also offer communication workshops for adult hearing aid users and their families.

The Lions loaner hearing aid bank for children and approved adults is located within our clinic. Hearing aids are available for extended loan to infants newly identified with hearing loss.

Cochlear Implants
For children and adults with severe to profound hearing loss who receive limited benefit from hearing aids, University of Minnesota Medical Center’s Cochlear Implant Program provides expert clinical care. Cochlear implants are electronic devices designed to restore some degree of hearing in severely-to-profoundly hard-of-hearing people. Unlike hearing aids, which amplify sound and require use of remaining hair cells in the cochlea, cochlear implants bypass the damaged hair cells in the inner ear by using electrical impulses to directly stimulate the auditory nerve fibers.

Services include evaluation of patients for implant, surgical implantation by ENT surgeons, programming of the device and aural rehabilitation with a speech-language pathologist with expertise in hearing loss. Care is provided by a multi-disciplinary team of experienced audiologists, ENT physicians, speech-language pathologists, psychologist and pediatric behavioral pediatrician. Fairview Audiology and Aural Rehabilitation Clinic offers a support group for cochlear implant patients and their families. More about cochlear implant.

Lions 5M International Hearing Center
Fairview Audiology and Aural Rehabilitation Clinic is part of the Lions 5M International Hearing Center. The Lions Club District 5M generously provided funding to establish the International Hearing Center at the University of Minnesota and continues to support initiatives at the center.

In 2005, the Lions Children's Hearing Center opened, bringing together otolaryngology, audiology, pediatric infectious disease, genetics, speech-language pathology, aural rehab and behavioral psychology specialties in one location.

Fairview Audiology and Aural Rehabilitation Clinic provides a vital link in the Hearing Center’s mission to provide service, education and research in the area of hearing disorders.

To Make an Appointment
For more information or to make an appointment, call Fairview Audiology and Aural Rehabilitation Clinic at the location convenient to you or e-mail us at audioclinic@fairview.org.

Fairview Audiology and Aural Rehabilitation Clinic
University of Minnesota Medical Center
420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN  55455
612-626-5775 (voice relay)

Fairview Audiology Clinic
501 Nicollet Blvd., Suite 120
Burnsville, MN 55337
612-273-2897
Fax:  612-626-6010