Atlanta Hearing Associates - Milledgeville

Licensed Doctor of Audiology Joy Pritchett is the president and CEO of Atlanta Hearing Associates. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor's Degree in Speech Pathology and Master's Degree in Audiology from Auburn University and earned her doctoral degree from Central Michigan University with a concentration in the assessment and rehabilitation of balance disorders.

Early in Dr. Pritchett's career, she served as an Audiology consultant in a multidisciplinary consortium for the educational needs of school aged children with speech, language, hearing impairment, and learning disabilities. She continues to provide regional children hearing healthcare clinics who qualify on the basis of need and has done so for over 25 years. Dr. Pritchett serves as an Audiology consultant for a host of state and federal programs for children including Head Start Programs, Babies Can't Wait and many counties in the state of Georgia who do not have Audiology services on site.

Dr. Pritchett has been in private practice since 1997 with office locations in Dunwoody, Decatur, Lake Sinclair, and Lake Oconee. Her clinical specialties include 1) establishing evidence based guidelines for the fitting of hearing aids, 2) auditory processing tests that are predictive for children who become poor readers, and 3) rehabilitative measures to reverse these processes. 

She and her husband of over 39 years have three adult children and two grandchildren.

Dr. Pritchett oversees a team of experienced and dedicated audiologists to provide top-notch hearing healthcare to ever patient who comes through their doors.