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[quote=Anonymous]You can do the booth testing "in a soundfield" which means that they don't use ear plugs or headphones, and just play the sounds in the room and see which way the child looks.  It will tell you if your child has hearing loss overall, but won't reliably detect situations where children have loss in just one year.  However, it will give you enough information to know whether he can hear all the speech sounds right now.

When we did the testing in a soundfield for my son, who was about 11 months, and certainly not following directions, it was straight up conditioning.  They'd play a sound from one side of the room, and then immediately after on that side of the room, a stuffed animal would light up and do something funny (e.g. bang a drum, dance and sing).  After 2 or 3 tries, he'd hear the noise and look for the funny animal.  It was obvious that that was what he was doing.  Once he got it, they started turning down the volume of the initial noise, and playing with the pitch, to see what he could hear.  
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