What’s the definition of hearing loss in one or both ears?
“We planned this course in cooperation with GN Otometrics and it was a 5-day program designed to teach the role of being a screener and learning all the technical audiological aspects of the screening. Why it’s important to have healthy hearing for learning good communication, and so on. [It included] practical training with the AccuScreen and the significance of error when you don’t get a pass. We had invited 8 newborns so that they had actual hands-on training with putting the probe into the very soft ear canals. This was very important as they were quite anxious about doing the screening – especially the midwives who were used to children, but not used to doing anything with a child’s ear. We trained a total of 57 in 3 separate courses.
