Who do we see?

  • Children from birth to 19 years of age with all kinds of deafness and hearing disorders: hearing difficulties, hearing loss, deafness (stable or progressive), tinnitus, auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder, auditory processing difficulties/disorder, hyperacusis.
  • Children under five years of age with speech and language delay where hearing loss is questioned
  • Children with vertigo, dizziness and balance disorders

  • Diagnostic testing of babies referred from the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) Xổ số thứ tư hàng tuầnand subsequent investigation and management.

  • Hearing evaluation: visual reinforcement audiometry, pure tone audiometry, tympanometry, oto-acoustic emissions, speech perception tests, stapedial reflexes, auditory brain-stem evoked response for threshold and latencies, cortical evoked response audiometry.
  • Medical and multidisciplinary assessment of hearing, listening and balance difficulties.
  • Support and counselling for children with a hearing loss and their families.
  • Assessment of speech, language, communication, education, and development of language, speech and listening skills if indicated
  • Vestibular assessment if indicated
  • Psychological support and assessment if indicated

  • Medical investigations of cause of deafness or imbalance and vertigo including urine, blood, scans
  • Medical management of treatable conditions identified including ‘glue ear’ (otitis media with effusion) and vertigo
  • Hearing aid prescription and fitting
  • Advice on development of hearing, listening, language and communication skills
  • Advice on medical and surgical management of deafness
  • Advice on choices about communication and education available to families of deaf children
  • Information about local and national support groups /societies
  • Management/advice about vertigo and balance disorders.

Xổ số thứ tư hàng tuầnAudiovestibular physicians, audiologists, specialist nurses, play leader, specialist speech & language therapist for the deaf, specialist teacher of the deaf, clinical psychologists

  • NHS e-Referral Service (formally Choose and Book referrals)
  • General practitioners (GPs)
  • Consultant paediatricians
  • ENT surgeons
  • Second tier community audiology clinics
  • Audiovestibular physicians
  • NHSP programme

Xổ số thứ tư hàng tuầnClinics are held on a daily basis.