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Japan's School Health and Safety Act regulates that when administering hearing tests to young children, the right and left ears should be tested separately by audiometer. However, with students having diverse disabilities who are enrolled in schools for those with special needs, testing by audiometer is not always easy because a procedure of this kind is a psychological test which requires children to respond on their own. In this study, speechlanguage-hearing therapists measured the hearing ability of students enrolled in 9 schools for children with special needs in a particular prefecture. As specialists, they carried out the hearing tests using various methods: infant hearing test, etc. The results showed that they were able to measure a hearing threshold in 98% of the students, and 18% were found to be 宇高耳鼻咽喉科医院 1) ：〒779-3233 徳島県名西郡石井町石井字石井 635-29 九州保健福祉大学 2) ：〒882-8508 宮崎県延岡市吉野町 1714-1 1)