The Paediatric Audiology Service provides hearing assessments, follow up services and amplification for newborn babies to 18 years living in Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea.
Our sites include Charing Cross Hospital in Fulham, St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington and Woodfield Road Medical Centre in Westbourne Park.
Referrals can be made by your GP, speech and language therapists, paediatricians, hospital consultants and health visitors. Parents cannot self-refer.
Further online resources
If your children has recently received a diagnosis, your audiologist, audiovestibular physician or ear, nose and throat consultant will provide information tailored to your child, but if you would like to read further there are a number of resources you can access.
- National Deaf Children's Society
- About children's audiology services | Audiology for deaf children (ndcs.org.uk)
- My baby has a hearing loss | Newly diagnosed deaf baby information (ndcs.org.uk)
- NHS newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP) - GOV.UK
- BAAP | British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians
- Glue ear - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
- Hearing loss - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
- Microtia and childhood deafness | Atresia and deafness (ndcs.org.uk)
There are also a number of apps that you can download to your device that provide information and resources for you and your child.
- My Ear Anatomy - My Ear Anatomy – Apps on Google Play / My Ear Anatomy on the App Store (apple.com)
- Oxford Medical Dictionary – Oxford Medical Dictionary - Apps on Google Play (please note that you have to pay for this app)
- Sound Essentials – Sounds Essentials - Learn and - Apps on Google Play
- Sign BSL – Sign BSL on the App Store (apple.com)