We have come a long way in the last three years, together with the support from Bradford Royal Infirmary we have created a centre of excellence. The new Listening For Life Centre which is pivotal for YCIS. We manage the assessment of the young babies, children and adults referred to us with severe to profound hearing losses.

Since we moved in in March '09 we have held numerous workshops, National and International meetings in the Shears Foundation Lecture Hall

We still need significant funds to complete equipping the centre. Some of the equipment we need includes:

• screening otoacoustic emissions
• automated brain stem audiology screening tympanometer
• sound level meters
• diagnostic otoacoustic auditory emissions
• visual re-enforced audiology tests
• Meg SS3 free field warbler
• diagnostic tympanometer
• Phoenix Speech tests
• aurical hearing aid test box
• POCIA MRC hearing aid hardware
• computers, adderlink boxes and printers
• biologic NAV Pro steady state evoked potential
• toys

On the horizon we are planning to help raise funds for a special scanner - CONE BEAM TECHNOLOGY

The equipment works like a CT scan but will produce very high quality images of the Ear. This wil make significant changes on how we assess both before and after surgery. - estimated cost over £250,000.