The University Hospitals and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital cochlear implant team has extensive experience in routine as well as difficult cases in both pediatric and adult patients. Team members include:

• A neurotologist, who specializes in the treatment of ear disease and surgery as well as nerve and brain related problems of the ear, leads the cochlear implant team
• Surgeons who are fellowship trained in otology and neurotologic surgery
• Audiologists who perform pre-operative hearing evaluations
• Cochlear Implant audiology specialist who programs the external speech processor to the patient’s diagnosis and measures and reprograms it to physiological changes over time
• Speech-language pathologists, social workers, education consultants and psychologists are available as needed