Children with Developmental Challenges

Children With Developmental Challenges 3(2+1)

Lesson 15 : Identification of Children With Hearing Impairment

Tests Used

The American speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) has given guidelines for hearing screening in 1993.

• Case history.
• Visual inspection of outer ear, ear canal and ear drum.
• Pure tone audio logic hearing screening.
• Tympanometry screening.
• Play audiometry.
• Speech audiometry: measures individual’s speech recognition threshold.
• Electrophysiological measures of auditory function from the inner ear.
• Evoked otoacoustic emissions--- inner ear.
• Acoustic emmittance- middle ear.

Tests used for screening and assessment of hearing impairment include the following

1. Infants
2. Preschoolers
3. School age
4. Role of audiologist