Dr Emma Williams1,2 1Ministry of Health, Thorndon, New Zealand, 2Paediatric Department – Wellington Hospital, Newtown, New Zealand In New Zealand children aged 4 years have preschool hearing screening at the B4 School Check using pure tone audiometry (PT). Pure...
- January 9, 2019
Miss Stephanie Keszegi1, Dr Rachael Beswick1, Mrs Jane Fitzgibbons1, Dr Carlie Driscoll2 1Healthy Hearing, Brisbane, Australia, 2University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Established universal newborn hearing screening pathways are effective in identifying congenital hearing loss. There is evidence, however, that...
- January 9, 2019
Dr Rachael Beswick1 1Children’s Health Qld, Nundah, Australia Unlike newborn hearing screening, the current system to detect hearing loss that develops after the newborn period is de-centralised and unco-ordinated. In Queensland, there are several state-funded and non-government programs, however,...
- January 9, 2019
Mrs Beth Polkinghorne1, Dr Rachael Beswick1, Ms Lia Traves1 1Children’s Health Queensland, Australia Children’s Health Queensland has recognised the need to deliver hearing screening in the community to those children not already accessing services through the three other screening...
- January 8, 2019