Umatilla County
Local Hearing Care & Audiology Experts for Umatilla County, OR
After being separated from Wasco County in 1862, the city of Umatilla was the county seat of Umatilla County until it was moved to the more populous community of Pendleton. Originally home to the Umatilla, Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Columbia peoples, our county developed into an area for rich irrigated agricultural production by the beginning of the 20th century.
Hermiston, the largest city in Northeast Oregon and the fastest-growing city in the Hermiston-Pendleton Micropolitan Statistical Area, has become the regional hub for logistics and data center activity due to the proximity of the I-82 and I-84 interchange, Pacific Northwest fiber optic backbone, and low power costs. Our rich agricultural heritage is still a major contributor to the Umatilla County economy, producing potatoes, onions, corn, and more than 200 other commercial crops.
Since 1982, Audiology & Hearing Aid Associates has continued to address the hearing health of Umatilla County, earning a reputation as the area's most trusted hearing care and audiology experts. Thousands of people, families, organizations, and physicians throughout our area have turned to us for personalized hearing care that improves your quality of life.
Our methodical process combined with industry best practices allow individuals in Umatilla, Hermiston, Pendleton, Milton-Freewater, and other communities throughout Umatilla County to participate in a tailored approach to hearing care that fits your specific needs and circumstances.
We’re not just selling you hearing aids and hearing technology. At A&HAA our audiologists take hearing care to another level using comprehensive hearing assessments, customized treatment plans, tinnitus management, earwax removal, and hearing aid repair in our La Grande office, your car, or the comfort of your Umatilla County home.
The Journey to Better Hearing Starts with a Comprehensive Hearing Assessments
Hearing loss often comes on slowly over months and years without you being aware of it, but its damage is irreversible and can lead to additional negative mental and physical health conditions, such as dementia and balance disorders when left untreated.
Comprehensive hearing examinations are diagnostic examinations of your ears and hearing, which are able to identify both temporary and permanent hearing challenges as well as other medical conditions often associated with hearing loss.
Though not all hearing challenges require hearing aids, a comprehensive hearing assessment provides the necessary data to select and program the right hearing device to serve your unique hearing needs.
Learn more about our comprehensive hearing assessments.
Advanced Hearing Aid Technology to Give Your Hearing a Boost
Prescription hearing aids are not the only solution available to manage hearing loss, but they provide significant benefits to those with permanent hearing loss who need to give their hearing a boost.
If your hearing loss requires some help from technology, then there are many really amazing, advanced hearing solutions available in smaller, lighter weight, and more powerful hearing devices with digital technology that far exceeds that of hearing instruments from a few decades past.
The broad range of features, levels of technology, and styles are nothing like those stigmatized hearing aids your parents or grandparents struggled with, allowing hearing aid use to go virtually unnoticed to those around you, but providing you with greater independence and a richer, more rewarding quality of life.
Find out more about the advanced hearing aid technology we have available.
Safe Professional Earwax Removal for Northeast Oregon
Are your ears feeling a bit full or stuffy? Muffled sounds, pressure, and aching in your ears are common signs associated with impacted earwax.
We understand that earwax buildup is frustrating and irritating, but before you start digging in your ears with a cotton swab, take a moment to understand that you are likely to do more harm than good by trying to manage earwax without the help of an audiology professional.
Earwax is nature’s janitorial service for your ears. It is designed to remove the dirt, debris, fungi, and bacteria from the ear canal to help prevent infection of your eardrum and outer ear. However, when it builds up and becomes impacted, you can not only damage the structures of your ear but upset the natural pH balance that helps keep your ears healthy.
Our earwax removal professionals have helped hundreds of individuals in Northeast Oregon get the relief they need from impacted earwax using safe, professional earwax removal techniques and technologies.
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Northeast Oregon’s Cochlear Implant Specialists
Permanent hearing loss impacts the lives of millions of people of all ages in all parts of the world. Most of them find the solution to their hearing challenges and a better quality of life from hearing aids, but there are some who require an alternative solution to improve hearing clarity when hearing aids aren’t enough.
Children or adults hoping to improve hearing clarity and more natural sound turn to our audiologists to facilitate better communication and better hearing using cochlear implants. These surgically implanted electronic devices can enhance hearing clarity in order to elevate speech and language processing abilities in children as young as six to twelve months on up to adolescents and adults.
Although cochlear implant technology has been around since the 1970s, few people truly understand what it is, how it is used, and who reaps the most benefits from it.
Find out more about cochlear implants and how they are used.
