Source: Waikato District Health Board – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Child Hearing Vision
Child Hearing Vision
Hearing and vision technicians provide pre-school, schools and community-based testing services.
These tests are important to identify hearing problems and vision problems. They are part of the National Vision Hearing Screening Programme which schedules tests for all children at specific ages between 3 and 11.
Test include
- audiometry (hearing)
- tympanometry (middle ear function test)
- vision (distance visual acuity)
- colour vision.
The service refers children with identified needs to appropriate follow up services.
Children’s Ear Clinic locations and times for term 2 of 2018
Key personnel
Ruth Batters
Manager
Location
Ear nurse clinics are provided across the Waikato DHB area and are both mobile and at established clinics.
- Children’s ear clinic , 51 Gallagher Drive, Hamilton
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