Dr. Mandy Rounseville-Norgaard spent nine years serving veterans through the VA hospital system and another seven years building two triumphant audiology practices in South Dakota. Now, she’s bringing that experience, along with a lifetime of personal understanding to the Florida Panhandle.
“We’ve done our purpose here. We’ve helped the people we can help, and now it’s time for a new chapter of seeing a need where it needs to be served,” Rounseville-Norgaard said. “We see a need down in the Panhandle.”
Born with importent hearing loss in both ears, Rounseville-Norgaard has worn hearing devices since age 3.That personal understanding,combined with her 19 years of professional experience,shapes the care she provides at Miramar Beach Audiology Associates,which opened nearly two years ago.
“The advances in hearing aid technology have made vast improvements in recent years,” rounseville-Norgaard said. “I am excited to be able to share what hearing aids have to offer based on my personal and professional experience to help others struggling to hear. Hearing loss is a quality of life issue, I get it – I live it.”
The practise, located at 42 Business Center Drive, Unit 306, serves a geographic area where hearing care providers are limited between panama City and Pensacola. Through her VA contract work, Rounseville-norgaard sees patients from as far as Tallahassee and Alabama, within a 90-mile radius that the VA covers for mileage reimbursement.
Rounseville-norgaard worked in the VA hospital system from 2009 to 2018, focusing on veteran care. In 2018, she opened her first private practice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, catering to both veterans and general patients. She expanded to a second location in 2021 but closed it this year as she transitions her services to Florida full-time.
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Her path to audiology began at Missouri State University, where she and her twin sister – also born with hearing loss – played handball on scholarship. After graduation, her handball coach suggested she pursue interaction sciences and disorders. She explored deaf education before finding her fit in audiology.
She earned her master’s degree from the University of South Dakota and completed her doctorate online through the University of Florida while working in Kansas City and Minneapolis. Her background includes experience in private practice, ear nose and throat clinics, educational settings, OSHA compliance, hearing conservation and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The practice offers a full range of audiology services including diagnostic hearing tests, ear cleaning, professional earwax removal, hearing aid fitting and prescription, hearing aid repair for all brands, tinnitus management, custom hearing protection and OSHA compliance.