Hearting Tests and Hearing Aids in Waterford

Company History

Whitfield Hearing Services was established in 2009 and amongst providing a hearing, tinnitus and hearing aid services we also work along side the ENT consultants within The Whitfield Clinic.

Whitfield Hearing Services is a real family business with Jean supported by both her son and daughter. Jane Hegarty joined Whitfield Hearing Services in 2013 and has since qualified as Hearing Aid Audiologist with qualification from Aston University. George joined Whitfield Hearing Services during 2018. George has a Bachelors of Science (Honours) in Audiology from Queen Margaret’s University in Edinburgh. After spending time working in the UK hearing aid market George decided to come back to Ireland. Over 4 years George had several positions in the HSE including a year as a in the Acute Audiology department of Waterford University Hospital and a year as a Senior Audiologist in Community Audiology.

In Whitfield Hearing Services they also specialize in Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) with Jean having taken a special interest in a range of Tinnitus treatments.

Hearing Healthcare Services

At Whitfield Hearing Services we offer The following hearing healthcare services:

• Otoscopy
• Middle Ear Analysis / Tympanometry
• Air Conduction Testing
• Bone Conduction Masking
• Speech Discrimination Tests
• Tone Decay Tests
• Recruitment Tests

We also offer the following additional tests specially used for diagnosing children’s hearing loss:

• Play Audiology
• Oto Acoustic Emissions
• Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA) Test (6 mnths – 2.5 yrs)
• Conditioning Tests (2 yrs. – 3.5 yrs.)
• Distraction Tests