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Audiology Service | Auckland | Te Toka Tumai
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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
Service types: Audiology.
Service types: Audiology.
Service types: Audiology.
Service types: Audiology, Newborn hearing screening.
Service types: Audiology, Newborn hearing screening.
Service types: Audiology, Newborn hearing screening.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Child audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Child audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Child audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Child audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Child audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Child audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing tests.
Service types: Audiology.
Service types: Audiology.
Service types: Audiology.
Service types: Audiology, Auditory processing disorder (APD).
Service types: Audiology, Auditory processing disorder (APD).
Service types: Audiology, Auditory processing disorder (APD).
Service types: Audiology, Hearing aids.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing aids.
Service types: Audiology, Hearing aids.
Document Downloads
- Your Baby's Hearing Screening (PDF, 200.4 KB)
- Starship Map (PDF, 555.8 KB)
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This page was last updated at 9:48AM on April 7, 2025. This information is reviewed and edited by Audiology Service | Auckland | Te Toka Tumai.