Neonatology/Pediatrics
Early Detection of Hearing Impairment in Children
Early Detection of Hearing Impairment in Children
Early identification of hearing impairment can help prevent problems in language and speech development that can have profound personal, societal and economic consequences. A new generation of technologies, including Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) monitoring that measures the electrophysiologic response of the brainstem auditory pathways to an acoustic stimulus in infants, now allows testing to occur even in newborns, thereby removing what has hitherto been a significant barrier to the performance and reliability of early hearing screening.
Some related materials produced by Communicore:
White Paper
Detecting
the Silent Handicap in Children [Infant Hearing Screening]
Articles
Meister, S. Emerging risk: Failure to
detect hearing disability in newborns: The problem: Lack of screening programs
for "normal" newborns. QRC Advisor. 1993; 10(2):14.
Robins, DS. New approaches to infant hearing screening. Neonatal Intensive Care. 1991; 4(1):3846.
Robins, DS. A case for infant screening. Neonatal Intensive Care. 1990; 3(6):2429, 42.
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