BUSINESS FEATURE
BY TRICIA SCHWENNESEN
PRIMARY SERVICES Doss Audiology & Hearing Center o ers a wide range of services beginning with diagnostic hearing evaluations for all ages.
PATIENTS ARE SOGRATEFUL FORWHATWE DO. I DO THINK WE IMPROVE PEOPLE’S LIVES ANDTHAT’S JUST AMAZING TOBE APART OF THAT EVERYDAY. PHALLON DOSS, OWNER AND AUDIOLOGIST
1. DIAGNOSTIC HEARING EVALUATIONS Audiologists perform comprehensive checks of hearing and speech understanding abilities.
2. SUPPLY, FIT HEARING AIDS
The center counsels on the care and use of a variety of hearing aids. And they provide batteries.
3. PROVIDING COCHLEAR DEVICE SUPPORT Phallon Doss is trained to map, or program, cochlear devices.
Phallon Doss (third from the right) and her team stand outside their newmedical o ce building. (Photos courtesy Phallon Doss)
Doss Audiology&Hearing Center Treatments and devices o er hearing quality improvements P hallon Doss found her calling in high school—though she did not know it at the time.
Doss Audiology& Hearing Center 645 Woodland Oaks Drive, Ste. 350, Schertz 210-819-5002 NOTE: THE CENTER ACCEPTS MOST MAJOR HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS OR PRIVATE PAY. PAYMENT PLANS ARE AVAILABLE.
“I still get to use my sign language all the time,” Doss said. “I’m one of the only audiologists in the area who can sign, so I get patients all the time who come to me because I have that intimate knowledge of the community.” As an audiologist, Doss, two other doctors and her sta provide primary health care for diagnosing and treating hearing imbalance disorders, she said. Her team also serves as the primary audiologists for Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD, which entails several visits each year to check on students with hearing loss and their equipment. “I saw a need in the community; [I wanted] to ll that void—we’ve been very blessed,” Doss said. “People are so happy to be able to get quality care
in their own backyards, right here.” Doss said her medical o ce o ers a range of services from diagnostic hearing evaluations to prescribing, supplying and tting hearing aids. Her o ce provides cochlear implant mapping, or programming, follow- ing implant surgery performed by an ENT or neurotologist, she said. “I nd it really interesting, and I love working with them,” Doss said. “Without cochlear implants, [people] are in complete silence.” Doss said the best part of her job is seeing people’s excitement once they experience improvement in their hearing. “[Patients] are just so grateful for what we do. I do think we improve people’s lives, and that’s just amaz- ing to be a part of that every day.”
As a freshman at Judson High School, Doss chose to study sign language, which counted as a foreign language. After graduation, she decided to pursue her clinical doctorate in Audiology, the science of hearing. “I wanted to continue serving the deaf and hard of hearing commu- nity in any way I could,” she said. She earned her doctorate from the University of North Texas, and in 2013 she opened Doss Audiology & Hearing Center in Schertz. In 2017, she opened a second o ce in Floresville. In 2021, she and her team moved into a newly constructed o ce building o of Schertz Parkway.
www.dossaudiology.com/ about-our-hearing-center Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat.-Sun. closed
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