AUDIOLOGICAL SERVICES

The BCIU provides audiological services to students ages 5 through 21 from various Berks County school districts.

Audiological services include the following:

Identification of children with hearing loss.
Determination of the range, nature, and degree of hearing loss, including referral for medical or other professional attention for the habilitation of hearing.
Provision of habilitative activities, such as language habilitation, auditory training, speech reading (lipreading), hearing evaluation, and speech conservation.
Creation and administration of programs for prevention of hearing loss.
Counseling and guidance of children, parents, and teachers regarding hearing loss.
Determination of children’s needs for group and individual amplification, selecting and fitting an appropriate aid, and evaluating the effectiveness of amplification.

School districts must make referrals by submitting a Request for School-Age Programs and Services Form to the BCIU.