Contents:

BACDA membership and work.


EARly audit.


School hearing screening survey.


Training and publications.


Guidelines for Medical Investigation of Bilateral Severe to Profound Permanent Deafness in Childhood.


Connections with other professional bodies.


BACDA study day, CMV and hearing loss, January 2006.


Home.

A Community Doctor in Audiology is a doctor who:

Works with children with all types and degrees of hearing impairment, and who may have other difficulties.
Has training and experience in child development and audiology.
May work at any one of a number of different grades and working levels.
May work in a hospital and/or community setting.
Has a Public Health role.

aetiology, investigations.
genetics.
dysmorphism and syndromes.
otitis media with effusion.
early assessment post-meningitis.

Health:

Paediatricians
ENT surgeons
Speech & Language Therapists

Teachers of Deaf
Educational psychologists
Schools

Special needs
Social Worker
Child protection