What I Do
Services & Products
H. Maluleka Audiology is primarily a mobile practice. I travel to the patient or client to bring audiological services close to their area or in the comfort of home, school or work.
Services Available
Hearing Screening
- Hearing screening is quick and done using an OAE or AABR screener.
- Can be scheduled from 24Hrs after a baby is born but we provide this service up to 2 years old.
- The baby needs to be asleep for the test or be quiet and calm.
- Screening also provided from age 3 years and above.
Occupational Hearing Screening
- Hearing screening for work purposes.
- Baselines, pre-employment, monitoring, diagnostic, exit assessments.
- Evaluating and making recommendations for threshold shifts, fitness for occupation and compensability (Percentage Loss of Hearing/PLH).
Hearing Tests (all ages)
- Diagnostic behavioural hearing tests from 3 years of age.
- Traditional or video otoscopy.
- Standard tympanometry.
- Acoustic reflexometry.
- Behavioural air and/or bone conduction audiometry – tones and speech.
- For children: behavioural observation, visual reinforcement, or conditioned play audiometry.
- For those with limited behavioural responses:
- Electrophysiological assessment on natural sleep via:
- Audiological Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR).
- Auditory Steady-State Response (ASSR).
- Electrophysiological assessment on natural sleep via:
- Site-of-lesion Neurological ABR.
Individual & Group Aural Rehabilitation
- Offered to both paediatric and adult patients.
- Patients learn to optimize their hearing solution to improve communication and to aid in speech and language development.
Device Selection, Fitting & Orientation Programmes
- Technological solutions available for hearing problems.
- After the test, options will be discussed and the individual or caregiver will be counselled on the use and care of the device.
Cerumen/Wax Management
- Removal of wax or foreign bodies in the ear canal.
- Methods: Syringing/irrigation; curette removal; forceps extraction.
Tinnitus Retraining Therapy
- Tinnitus assessment.
- For patients who have ringing in their ears; ideally for those who have persistent ringing that is bothersome and disturbs everyday life and sleep.
Vestibular-Related Dizziness Or Vertigo Assessment & Rehabilitation
- Bedside vestibular assessments.
- Referrals for equipment-based testing.
- Vestibular Retraining Therapy for confirmed vestibular dysfunction.
- Fall risk assessment.
Hearing Conservation Programs For Prevention Of Noise Induced Hearing Loss
- For individuals exposed to excessive noise (recreational or occupational) who want to know more about caring for their ears and hearing and preventing noise induced hearing loss.
- For companies with employees who are exposed to excessive noise looking to start a hearing conservation program e.g., mine workers, steel worker, brush cutter operator, bus/truck driver, firearm operator.
Prevention Of Hearing Loss & Promotion Of Healthy Hearing & Ears
- Counselling on ear and hearing care and hygiene.
- Educational services for individuals or institutions who want to be informed on ear and hearing care by an audiologist.
Products Available
Hearing Aids, Accessories & Batteries
- A variety of hearing aids are offered for selection:
- Behind-the-ear (BTE) with earmould or slim tube coupling.
- In-the-ear (ITE).
- Receiver-in-the-canal (RIC).
- Contralateral routing of signals/bilateral (CROS/BI-CROS) hearing aids (for single-sided deafness with or without considerable hearing loss in the opposite ear).
- Bone conduction hearing aids (BCHA).
- Hearing aid batteries, earmoulds, slim tubes, domes, hearing aid care kit, paediatric accessories and more.
Hearing & Ear Protection
- Noise plugs.
- Custom HPDs.
- Swim plugs.
Other Assistive Listening Devices
- FM System.
- Phone T-Coil Magnets.
