Comprehensive Hearing Center (CHC)
Programs and services
- Comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluation of hearing disorders with a special focus on hearing loss in neonates (neonatal hearing screening)
- Detailed medical and/or technical counseling and explanation of therapeutic treatments
- Conventional and surgical treatments of all kinds of hearing loss using modern hearing devices (implants, hearing aids)
- Microsurgery of the ear and acoustic neuroma surgery
- Research focus:
- Objective and subjective diagnostics of auditory perception and speech understanding
- Optimizing surgical procedures for implantable hearing devices
- Inner ear biology and investigation of new therapies of hearing loss
- Central auditory processing on a neuronal level
- Psychoacoustics
Cooperating institutions
- Phoniatrics / Pediatric Audiology / Electrophysiology / Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
- Numerous departments of the University Hospital of Würzburg: Pediatrics / Developmental Pediatrics / Obstetrics / (Child and Adolescent) Psychiatry / Neurology / Neurosurgery / Radiology
- Institute of pre-linguistic Development and Developmental Disorders
- Cochlear Implant Center Süd (CICS) Würzburg Foundation “Sprache-Kommunikation“
- Dr. Karl-Kroiß-Center for the hearing impaired