Picture 'Scroll' - Part Trois?

Generally I do a blog entry known as "picture 'scroll'" displaying different photos of my life both professionally- & personally-related from the past few months or year.  Well, since last summer, I did not accumulate many photos...not very many Kodak moments.  Or none that I wished to capture on film.  C'est la vie.  So this year I will do a picture 'scroll' with photos of the clinic site that I'm currently at.   

Note the doors - - one patient said that they looked like jail doors. I've worked with a number of sound booths with similar doors and that thought never crossed my mind.  This patient had recently visited a prison.  And kids say the darnedest things. ;-)

A view of the inside of the sound booth (the 'diagnostic' side) - - it's probably the largest/roomiest sound booth that I've ever worked with.  The first sound booth that I've ever worked with was about the size of a telephone booth.

The view of the sound booth from the inside sort of looking out.

I'm at a pediatric site - - this is the little set-up inside the sound booth for conditioned play audiometry (CPA).  CPA is a type of behavioral test technique used to evaluate hearing in children who have a cognitive age of 30 months or older. 

Toys are a key component of CPA.  Also toys are needed in general for kiddos to keep them entertained during their appointment.

Inside the sound booth is a tympanomenter.  Also there is equipment for otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) and auditory brainstem response (ABR) & auditory steady-state response (ASSR) testing. 

The purple recliner is used as an extra seat in the office area for parents & patients to sit in during appointments.  It is also moved into the sound booth and used for unsedated ABR & ASSR testing. 

A view of the office area - - it's the 'treatment' side where counseling & fitting for amplification occurs (hearing aids and bone-anchored hearing systems). 

I'm glad this site has an audiometer that I'm familiar with which is the GSI 61.

I'm starting to get used to working with the Audioscan Verifit, a hearing instrument fitting system, which provides objective measures of a hearing aid. 

This little guy is the newest addition to the office.  It was a gift to my clinical preceptor from another audiologist who recently took a trip to the Galapagos.  This bird is a Blue-footed Booby.  I had forgotten the name of the bird and called it a Booty.  My preceptor was all "no, it's Booby".  Cute bird...goofy name.  It should give you an indication of how my preceptor is. ;-)

Generally we rotate clinic sites each academic quarter.  But this year I'm at one clinic site for Spring and Summer Quarters.  I'm not complaining at all since I love the audiologist I'm working with and I love working with kids.  Even when it can get tough emotionally like encountering & testing my first blind patient.  I can't believe my rotation is more than half over.  Heck - I can't believe it's mid-June!  I'm "Hear 4 U Always" whether time flies or crawls.  Hope you're enjoying the summer.