Audiology Service | Auckland | Te Toka Tumai

Waitakere Hospital

Contact Details

Email audiology@adhb.govt.nz

Greenlane Clinical Centre contact number (09) 639 0200 Ext: 27350/27354

Starship Hospital contact number (09) 367 0000

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Email contact for both sites please email audiology@adhb.govt.nz

Street Address

Greenlane Clinical Centre
Greenlane West
Auckland

Starship Audiology
2 Park Road
Grafton

Postal Address

GREENLANE CLINICAL CENTRE
Audiology Department
Level 4, Building 4
Greenlane West Road
Auckland

Description

Auckland Te Toka Tumai District Audiology Service

Auckland Te Toka Tumai Audiology holds clinics at Greenlane Clinical Centre, Starship Children's Hospital and Waitakere Hospital. Community hearing screening clinics are also run in Mt Roskill and Glen Innes.
Diagnostic Testing and Hearing Aid services
The Audiology service provides full audiology services to the paediatric population of Auckland Te Toka Tumai and Waitemata including diagnosing hearing loss, fitting of hearing aids and auditory processing assessments. There is a small service for complex needs Auckland Te Toka Tumai adults.
Balance testing
The service runs a vestibular clinic at the Greenlane Clinical Centre that is designed to diagnose balance problems in adults and children over seven years of age. This is a regional clinic and accepts referrals from the Counties, Waitemata and Te Tai Tokerau districts.
Newborn Hearing Screening
All babies who are born in Auckland Te Toka Tumai are offered hearing screening tests within their first month of life with the aim of testing a baby’s hearing before they leave hospital. Outpatient clinics are provided in the community to ensure babies not seen in hospital or born at home are offered the screening.

Babies that have a diagnosed hearing loss will be fitted with hearing aids within a few months of birth.

For more information on Universal Newborn Hearing Screening please visit   https://info.health.nz/pregnancy-maternity/pregnancy-newborn-screening/hearing-screening-newborns or call the Newborn Hearing Screening office at Auckland Te Toka Tumai on (09) 307 4949 ext: 25020.

Referral Expectations

Referrals are accepted for children aged newborn right through to school leavers. High priority is given if they have had serious illnesses (e.g. meningitis) or trauma where hearing could be affected or have significant speech delay.

We do not accept adult referrals for routine hearing tests.

The eligibility criteria for adult hearing aid fitting is very restricted, as follows:

1:  The patient must have a hearing loss average of 65dB in the worst 3 frequencies of .5 kHz to 4 kHz (in the better ear)

OR

2:  The patient has a hearing loss (of any degree) and one of the following:

  • A visual impairment (details outlined below*)
  • An intellectual disability
  • A physical disability impacting upon the patient's ability to communicate safely and effectively

* Vision: The patient’s corrected vision with lenses does not exceed 6/24 in the person's better eye or they have membership to the NZ Royal Foundation of the Blind).

ADHB will see the patient while the hearing aid is still under warranty and/or for 6 years if they still meet the eligibility criteria for ADHB.

Procedures/Treatments

Hearing Loss and Treatment
Newborn Hearing Screening
Auditory Brainstem Response Testing
Visual Reinforcement Audiometry
Play Audiometry
Pure Tone Audiometry
Otoacoustic Emission Testing
Tympanometry and Acoustic Reflex Testing
Speech Testing
Auditory Processing Testing
Adult Hearing Aid Assessments
Balance Testing

Other

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Website

www.adhb.health.nz/

https://healthpoint.co.nz./public/allied-health/audiology-service-auckland-te-toka-tumai/