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Newborn hearing screening tests
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Your newborn pēpi (baby) will be offered free hearing screening tests, to check they can hear well.
This will usually be done before you go home from hospital after giving birth. If this doesn't happen you will need an appointment for an outpatient test, which should be done before your pēpi is four weeks old.
HealthInfo recommends the following pages
- Ministry of Health:
- Newborn hearing screening: Your baby's hearing screen
The benefits of newborn hearing screening tests and the procedures used.
This brochure is also available in Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Hindi.
- Newborn hearing screen results
This page explains what it means for your baby to pass their newborn hearing screening test and gives you a checklist to monitor your baby's hearing.
This brochure is also available in Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Hindi.
- Repeat newborn hearing screen
This page explains what it means when your baby needs to have a further hearing screening test.
- Newborn hearing screening: Referral to an audiologist
This page explains what will happen if your baby needs referral to an audiologist.
This brochure is also available in Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Hindi.
- Newborn hearing screening: Your baby's hearing screen
- National Foundation for Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Help, advice and support for people with hearing loss.
- National Screening Unit – Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
Information about newborn hearing screening checks.
On the next page: Hearing loss in children
Written by HealthInfo clinical advisers. Last reviewed May 2020.
SourcesReview key: HIHVC-27167
