I am required to do hearing and vision screens on all my preschoolers and whoever else diagnostics is bringing in to screen as well.
We have an ancient audiometer. It is SOOOOOO old. and the tape plays sooooooo SLOWWWW these preschoolers will lose focus. It's taking me forever to finish 1 classroom just because hearing takes so long and you know, 3 year olds have great attention spans ?
Just trying to gather some info on what audiometers you use. do you use audiometers on this age range, or do you use the OAE devices? Which provides a better result ?
Ive spoken about this to our district nurses and administration over the RNs and they said they will look into it but right now they are in the process of taking inventory and replacing some AEDs in the district (priorities, i get it) but it may be years before they start replacing these audiometers.
so far this is my least favorite part of this job ? I'm only 7 weeks in! I would be happy if I never hear that recording "show me the toothbrush, show me the cowboy, show me the firetruck" EVER AGAIN!!!! .
