Metro Hearing and Balance Center - Arizona

Metro Hearing was founded in 1980 as Metro Hearing Aid near the Metro Center Mall in northwest Phoenix with one staff audiologist serving the medical ear specialist community. As the name denotes, it was primarily a hearing aid retail establishment.

In 1982, Dr. Stephen Teodoro, Doctor of Audiology, joined the practice and Metro Hearing Aid became Metro Hearing & Balance considering it was more than just a retailer of hearing aids. It expanded to provide other hearing and balance products and services. Testing for the medical community was especially important to the practice at this time. Metro Hearing & Balance’s audiologists at one time were providing diagnostic hearing and balance services for up to eight ear, nose and throat specialists.

Metro Hearing Services became Metro Hearing & Balance in 2007 to represent the reality that the balance system had become an important part of the services the practice provided. Darryl Johnson, M.S., with more than 30 years of specialized training and experience in the vestibular (balance) system, has brought his unique skills to bear in providing relief for those who suffer from this debilitating impairment. In addition to the balance portion of the practice, Metro Hearing & Balance has had a strong pediatric department headed by Sally Teodoro, M.C.D., along with Dr. Traci Woods, Doctor of Audiology providing a valuable service to the pediatric medical community in identifying, quantifying, and treating hearing disorders in children.

Presently, Metro Hearing and Balance has six staff audiologists who work from five locations primarily in the northwest valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The audiologists are board certified by the American Board of Audiology which requires 20 hours of continuing education, more than double the requirement as the state of Arizona. As one of the 25 largest audiology practices in the nation, Metro Hearing & Balance incorporates the latest diagnostic hearing and balance technology to best serve the hearing and balance impaired community.