Charlotte Eye Ear Nose and Throat Associates was founded in 1923 and audiology was not yet a profession. If hearing testing was needed, it was done by the physician or a trained nurse.

In the 1960's, an audiometric technician was hired and trained by the physicians to perform basic air and bone audiograms. It was not until the early 1980's that an audiologist was hired at Charlotte Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Associates. Our audiology services were then expanded to include auditory brainstem response evaluation and electronystagmography. In 1984, Debbie Longacher Shea started the our first hearing aid dispensing program.

The hearing aid and audiology program continued to grow under the direction of Judy Bible who took over the program in 1986. In 2000, Dr. Bible was appointed chief operating officer at Charlotte Eye Ear Nose and Throat Associates and Dr. Tracy Swanson assumed the audiology director’s position. The audiology program has grown from one audiologist and an audiometric technician in one office, to ten audiologists, an office manager and an assistant, providing hearing services in six offices.

Our extensive program now includes comprehensive audiologic examination, auditory brainstem response evaluation, electronystagmography, hearing aid services, cochlear implant services, pediatric hearing assessment and hearing aid fitting, vestibular rehabilitation, tinnitus retraining therapy, and assistive listening devices.

We are proud of our commitment to our hearing impaired patients and we will continue to focus on their complete personal, hearing and hearing aid care.