Vision and Hearing Screening Program in Prince George's County, Maryland

Newborn Hearing Screening Program.

The primary justification for early identification of hearing impairment in infants relates to the impact of hearing impairment on speech and language acquisition, academic achievement, and social and emotional development [1-3]. The first three years of life are most important for speech and language acquisition. Animal studies have shown that early auditory deprivation interferes with the dev...

Retail Location and Transit: An Econometric Examination of Retail Location in Prince George’s and Montgomery County, Maryland

preschool vision screening program: coverage, validity and outcome

purpose: to evaluate the preschool vision screening program coverage and to assess its validity indices including specificity, negative predictive value (npv), sensitivity and positive predictive value (ppv) and the frequency of treatment for visual impairment. methods: a sample of 906 six-year-old children signed up for primary school registration in the shahrood district (semnan, iran) were r...

Adult Hearing Screening: The Cyprus Pilot Program

[page 69] Adult hearing screening: the Cyprus Pilot Program C. Thodi,1 M. Parazzini,2 S.E. Kramer,3 A.C. Davis,4 S. Stenfelt,5 T. Janssen,6 D. Stephens,7 P.A. Smith,4,8 M. Pronk,3 L.J.C. Anteunis,9 F. Grandori2 1Cyprus Audiology Center, Nicosia, Cyprus; 2Istituto di Ingegneria Biomedica ISIB, CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano, Italy; 3Department of ENT/Audiology, VU University Medi...

Screening program lets Alberta test newborns' hearing.