Neonatal hearing screening OTOLARYNGOLOGIST’S PERSPECTIVE

Neonatal hearing screening: otolaryngologist's perspective.

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[Neonatal hearing screening].

Auditory deprivation in early life significantly effects speech, language, cognition and learning development. The importance of neonatal hearing screening in order to detect and manage children with hearing impairment during the critical period before three years of age can't be neglected. The neonatal hearing screening program at Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, under a cooperation of audio...

Neonatal screening for hearing impairment.

Scope of this discussion Hearing impairment in childhood may be conductive or sensorineural or a combination of the two (mixed) with additive eVects. Impairments aVect one or both ears, vary from mild to profound in degree, and may be congenital, acquired, transient, fluctuating, recurrent, progressive, or permanent. Screening positive for hearing impairment at any age leads firstly to the need...

Neonatal screening--a global perspective.

Neonatal Hearing Screening: failures, hearing loss and risk indicators.

UNLABELLED To check the rate of failure, hearing loss and its association with demographic variables and risk indicators for hearing loss in newborns submitted to the Newborn Hearing Screening in a secondary hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional and retrospective study, involving 1,570 newborns submitted to the different stages of the Newborn Hearing Screening Program. Initially, we...