Medicare rebates available for comprehensive hearing assessments referred by GPs or other medical practitioners. 

Child Comprehensive Hearing Assessment (Ages 3-17)

$170 ^ | 45 minutes

Who is it for?

  • Children with hearing difficulties (eg if they ignore you when you call them)
  • Children with frequently blocked ears, ear infections or tug on their ears regularly.
  • Consider if your child’s speech or language is unclear.
  • Highly recommended if you are exploring grommets for your child to compare pre- and post-surgery results.
  • For school-aged children, consider having their hearing assessed if they are having trouble at school or in noisy situations.
  • We can also help older children who experience buzzing or ringing in their ears especially after headphone use.

What are the benefits of having my child's hearing comprehensively assessed?

Peace of mind that your child’s ears and hearing are working as they should.

Clarity if you need to see a Speech & Language Pathologist for speech and language support or an Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) specialist for ear management.

Rule out if any delays with speech, language, learning or school are due to resolvable hearing issues.

What happens at the appointment?

Our comprehensive hearing assessments for children is adapted to your child. 

We begin by exploring your child’s hearing and general health backgrounds and help to settle them into the appointment in a fun and respectful way.

We take images of their ears using our specialised camera, before assessing their middle ear function (via tympanometry) to provide us with information about their Eustachian tube function. 

We then check if the inner ear is responding to an automated hearing test (DPOAEs). 

For children aged 3-6 years old, we play a game to determine how soft they can hear soft sounds that are essential to understanding speech (conditioned play audiometry). 

For older children, we comprehensively test how soft they can hear broader sounds across the speech spectrum and their abilities to understand words in quiet (age 6 and up) and sentences in noise (age 9 and up).

We conclude with an explanation of the results and a discussion of next steps so you have a clear idea of what to do next

We conclude with a clear explanation of the results and assist you in determining the best course of action to take for your child.

A report will be sent to their referring doctors and to you.

How should we prepare for the appointment?

We encourage you to book a time that your child will be able to concentrate for up to 30 minutes.

For younger children (up to 8 years old), preparing your younger child ahead of the appointment by telling the that someone will be looking in their ears can sometimes help to settle them ahead of time. We sometimes require distractions during testing for this age group, so if you have any of your child’s preferred videos on your phone, that can be helpful for us to obtain all necessary results.

We try to avoid eating during testing as this can disrupt results.

For older children, there is no specific preparation needed for our appointments.

Who will I be seeing?

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Dr Gerard William

Dr Gerard William, PhD, is an Audiology Australia accredited audiologist who has hearing impairment. He founded Hear With Me to provide warm, personalised and comprehensive hearing care that prioritises the needs and concerns of hearing impaired individuals and their loved ones.

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Sabreena Zahrain

Sabreena Zahrain is an experienced Audiology Australia accredited audiologist who has worked across several areas of audiology, specialising in ear wax removals, children and adult hearing assessments, and hearing rehabilitation. She is dedicated to helping you achieve your goals while also ensuring that you are cared for and met with warmth and clinical excellence.

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What else should I know?

Please bring your doctor’s referral (if you have one) to your appointment.

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