The Nuffield Hearing and Speech Centre 

Our skills are in the multidisciplinary assessment, diagnosis and management of disorders of speech, hearing and balance in all children including those with complex and special needs. We see children of all ages up to the age of 19 years. 

Conditions treated

Hearing problems

• Referral from the Newborn Hearing Screen (NHSP)
• Permanent Childhood Hearing Impairment to include:
• Sensorineural hearing loss or deafness
• Permanent conductive hearing loss including microtia and atresia
• Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
• Progressive hearing loss or deafness
• Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD)
• Otitis media with effusion (glue ear) and middle ear dysfunction
• Tinnitus and hyperacusis
• Auditory Processing Difficulty (APD)
• Hearing assessments for children with complex or special needs

Balance problems

• Vertigo and dizziness in childhood to include:
• Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo of Childhood
• Vestibular migraine
• Central vestibular disorders
• Vestibular neuronitis
• Vestibular hypofunction
• Balance disorders

Speech & language disorders

• Severe speech disorders
• Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia / Childhood apraxia of speech
• Assessment and advice on deaf children with additional speech and language disorders