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Who Can You Test? • Any patient who can sit still and be quiet • Test is especially good for: – Infants – Mentally challenged patients – Malingerers • Contraindicated for – Occluded canal – Excessive movement – Conductive hearing loss

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Special Testing

• Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) • Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA, ABR) • Pseudohypoacusis • Cochlear Implant Sentence Testing • Hearing Aids

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Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA, ABR) • Measures response to sound as it travels through the auditory pathways up to the brain • Non-invasive test • Used as a screening tool to determine site-of-lesion

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