Audiology is a special field of otorhinolaryngology that specifically deals with hearing, hearing-related diseases, their detection, screening and treatment.

Pedoaudiology is the field of audiology whose practitioners are specialized in examining children's hearing and providing them with medical and hearing aids.

It is objective for diagnosing hearing loss and does not require the child's conscious participation

and subjective procedures based on the child's signals are used.

In the most common forms of objective hearing tests used mainly in infants, the electrical brain waves produced by sound stimuli are registered, the acoustically induced electrical cortical or brainstem reactions are evaluated, etc. weak vibrations returning to the eardrum from the inner ear to the sound stimulus.

Data from objective tests alone are not sufficient. Subjective tests on the child's behavioral changes to sound stimuli, visual stimuli, etc. they build on toy-related conditioning procedures, and later on the children's conscious feedback.

Special education development is largely based on pedoaudiological data.

Early detection and treatment of childhood hearing loss

Immediate diagnosis of children screened in the newborn period and provision of aids in case of verification of hearing impairment.

Rapid diagnosis and provision of equipment for the hearing impairment of infants and young children who are interrupted at various stages of screening.