OAEs...your opinions?

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In article <49rf3e$52l at sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>, Karen and Mark
<kstrudwi at laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au> writes:

>I personally have some concerns about OAE's. Not regarding how they are 
>incorporated into a complete audiological assessment but rather how some 
>non audiologists seem to view it as a replacement for a complete 
>audiological assessment.
>
>Mark B. Keller
>
>

I think that it is the responsibility of audiologists to educate
nonaudiologist re: the utility of OAE's as a screening tool.  Certainly
OAE's are not a replacement for **complete** audiological assessment, just
as a screening by a school nurse is not a replacement. 

Faye Erickson