Lafayette’s trusted experts for hearing loss and tinnitus care.

ACI Hearing Center opened in Lafayette in 1984. We have helped more than three generations of Acadiana families hear better. Our office on Saint Thomas Street is led by four Doctors of Audiology and a full clinical team. We are not a national hearing aid chain. We are an independent, locally owned audiology practice with a permanent commitment to this community.

A real diagnostic appointment, every time

Every new patient starts with a full diagnostic hearing evaluation, not a quick screening. We test air conduction, bone conduction, speech understanding in quiet, speech understanding in noise, and middle ear function. We explain every result in plain language and walk you through your audiogram before we talk about treatment. If you do need hearing aids, you will know exactly why and what they will and will not do for you.

Real-ear verification on every fitting

Real-ear measurement is the gold standard for hearing aid fitting. A tiny microphone goes in your ear canal next to the hearing aid, and we measure the exact sound level reaching your eardrum. We then adjust the hearing aid until the output matches your individual prescription target. Less than 30 percent of hearing aid dispensers in the United States use real-ear measurement. Every fitting at ACI uses it. This is the single biggest reason our patients report better speech clarity than they had at previous providers.

Care for tinnitus, balance, and complex cases

Many of our patients arrive after being told nothing else can be done for their ringing, their dizziness, or their hearing loss. We offer Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, sound therapy programming, vestibular evaluations, cochlear implant candidacy testing, and post-implant programming. If your case is outside our scope, we coordinate directly with ENT physicians, neurologists, and surgical centers across Acadiana so you are never left to figure out the next step on your own.

Independent means honest options

Because we are not owned by a hearing aid manufacturer, we fit every major brand including Oticon, Phonak, Widex, Starkey, Signia, ReSound, and Unitron. We recommend the technology that fits your hearing loss, your lifestyle, and your budget, not the brand a corporate office told us to push this quarter. We will also tell you when you do not need hearing aids yet. That happens more often than you might expect.

Lifelong follow-up included

Hearing aids are not a one-time purchase. They are a relationship. Every device we fit comes with included follow-up visits, cleanings, reprogramming, and adjustments for the life of the device. You will see the same audiologists every visit. We carry detailed notes on what works for you and what does not, so each appointment builds on the last one.

Serving all of Acadiana

Patients come to us from Lafayette, Broussard, Youngsville, Carencro, Scott, Maurice, Duson, Breaux Bridge, Crowley, New Iberia, Opelousas, Abbeville, and Eunice. We are five minutes off Ambassador Caffery Parkway and have plenty of parking. Same-week appointments are usually available, and we accept most major insurance plans including Medicare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Humana, and Aetna.