Diane Blaising, AuD, ADA, ABA, FAAA

As early as elementary school, Diane Blaising had a fascination with the workings of the auditory system. Now, as a board-certified doctor of audiology, she enjoys the “people side” of her field even more.

When Diane was just a kid and it was time for the school science fair, while other kids were building wind turbines with paper cups and fashioning batteries from lemons and potatoes, Diane’s experiment was a demonstration of “bone conduction hearing”.

“I took a record player to school and instead of using its needle on the record, I stuck a sewing needle into a pencil eraser,” she said. “You could hold the wooden end of the pencil between your teeth, place the needle on the turning record, and hear the record through the teeth and bones in your skulls.”

That fascination with the human auditory system hasn’t waned and these days she spends her time impacting the lives of her patients and their families by offering the gift of hearing through what she calls total hearing care. “I want my office to serve as a resource center for everything hearing,” Dr. Blaising said. “For instance, I saw the way family members often struggle to communicate with loved ones who have hearing difficulties. So, we began offering a free class to anyone who wants to learn coping strategies for people with hearing loss and their families.”

Dr. Blaising is quick to credit much of the success of Cityview Audiology & Hearing Aids to her outstanding staff. “They join me in my mission to help our patients obtain a better quality of life by enhancing their ability to communicate with their families and friends, for deeper, more meaningful relationships,” she said. “We also love helping working men and women be more successful in their careers. When a patient is bothered by ringing in their ears, called Tinnitus, we offer testing and treatment for that as well.”

Advanced hearing-aid technology allows Dr. Blaising to treat most hearing loss successfully. “Of course, every patient is unique,” she said. “We’re diligent about staying abreast of advancements in the programming software that allows us to correctly fit hearing instruments to each individual patient.”

Diane Blaising received her doctor of audiology degree from the Arizona School of Health Sciences and her master’s degree in audiology from the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has decades of experience working with hearing-impaired adults and children in otolaryngologists’ offices in Louisville and as a pediatric audiologist at the Louisville Deaf Oral School. She is board certified in audiology by the American Board of Audiology and has twice received the Ace Award for continuing education. She and her husband attend First Baptist Church in Dallas and Dr. Blaising is a member of the Christian Medical and Dental Association.Find out more at CityviewHearing.com.