AboutSharjah Audiology Center
Establishment
The Audiology Clinic started its operations in 1993 as part of the services provided by the Early Intervention Center. In 2010, the Sharjah City Audiology Center was established as a diagnostic unit licensed by the MOHAP and affiliated with the Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services.
Aims to provide a complete Audiological assessment and diagnosis of all benefiters, as well as describe appropriate hearing solutions for people with hearing problems, and provide services at competitive prices.
Disabilities
- The center provides services to beneficiaries with and without disabilities.
Age group
The center receives all age groups from newborns to the elderly.
Curricula and assessment tools
The center follows the evaluation protocol approved by MOHAP, the BSA and ASHA for each service provided at the center
Services
The most important basic services provided
Auditory evaluation
Sharjah City Audiology Center offers all audiological examinations that reveal various hearing problems using modern technologies, which are:
- Hearing Threshold test
- New Born Hearing Screening.
- Pure Tone Audiometry.
- Play Pure Tone Audiometry.
- Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA).
- Aided /Free filed Audiometry.
- Tympanometry
- OtoAcousticEmisstion OAE (DPOAE, TEOAE)
- Speech Audiometry
- Auditory Brainstem Response ABR
Services of hearing aids
Sharjah City Audiology Center provides counseling services to families to guide them to the appropriate type of hearing aids:
- cochlear implants and processors and accessories as needed.
- provide alternatives at affordable prices.
- providing periodic follow-up services.
- provide all the requirements of Audiological devices.
Hearing Screening of schools and kindergartens
Sharjah City Hearing Center is concerned with the importance of early detection of hearing impairment and its positive effects. The center provides hearing Screening services for children in kindergartens and schools to detect hearing impairment and other hearing problems, and provide the right solution directly.
Admission to SCHS
Registration and Admission at Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services Procedures for registering new students:
- First:
- Attend in person to register at the Social Service Department, in the administration building during official working hours.
- Register using a valid original ID.
- Provide a recent medical report from an accredited entity / Provide a psychological educational report (if available).
- The center is determined based on age group and type of disability.
- Second:
- The school or center's social worker will contact to schedule a personal interview.
- Communicate with the family and inform them of the beneficiary's file acceptance if conditions are met.
- The social worker completes registration data, including filling out the social case study.
- The social worker receives the required documents and health reports as mandatory attachments for the admission process.
- Third:
- The beneficiary pays a non-refundable seat reservation fee of AED 1000.
- The beneficiary pays a non-refundable file opening fee of AED 200 to join the services of the Physical and Occupational Therapy Center or Family Counseling services. For more details regarding school fees and transportation services, click here.
- Fourth:
- The beneficiary joins the services of the SCHS
- Fifth:
- The beneficiary completes the fee payment procedures in coordination with the school or center's accounting department. For more details regarding school fees and transportation services, click here.