An Audiometer to Monitor Progressive Hearing Change in School-aged Children

Behavioral Screening Tests to Detect Hearing Loss in School Aged Children: A Review

Corresponding author: Ratul Dey,Lecturer,Department of ENT, Guru Gobind Singh Medical College, [email protected] This article may be cited as:Dey R,Davessar JL,Kumar S and Sharma T.Behavioral Screening Tests to Detect Hearing Loss in School Aged Children: A Review.Int J Com Health and Med Res 2016;2(2):73-79 Article Received: 03-05-2016 Accepted On: 12-05-2016 NTRODUCTION Heari...

Problem-Solving Ability in Elementary School-Aged Children with Hearing Impairment

A practical screening model for hearing loss in Iranian school-aged children.

BACKGROUND Hearing loss is a common and considerable disability that harms educational performance of school children in developing countries like Iran. Lack of a simple and practical screening protocol often deters routine and systematic hearing screening at school entry. METHODS This study was to establish a practical screening model for hearing loss in school-aged children based on a commu...

Use of a digital hearing aid with directional microphones in school-aged children.

The efficacy of a digital hearing aid with a directional microphone was examined in a school-aged population. Twenty children (9 with a mild-to-moderately-severe hearing loss and 11 with a moderate-to-severe hearing loss) between 7 1/2 and 13 2/3 years of age wore the study hearing aids binaurally for 30 days prior to the evaluation. The testing protocol included speech recognition tests using ...

obesity related factors in school‑aged children

background: overweight and obesity is becoming an increasingly prevalent problem in both developed and developing world, and is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. although various studies demonstrated pediatric obesity‑related factors, but, due to its ongoing hazardous effects, researchers aimed to assess obesity‑related factors in school‑aged children in rash...