Approaches to Hearing Evaluation in Young Patients: Learning What We Need to Know Before a Child Can Tell Us
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Address correspondence to: Linda J. Hood, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, Vanderbilt University, 1215 21st Ave. So., #8310, Medical Center East, So. Tower, Nashville, TN. 37232-8242. [email protected] Determination of hearing sensitivity for infants below 5–6 months of age depends on objective test methods. Objective approaches currently in clinical use with infant populations include otoacoustic emissions (OAE), middle-ear measures including tympanograms and middleear muscle reflexes (MEMR), auditory brainstem response (ABR), and auditory steady-state responses (ASSR). A pediatric test battery approach published by Gravel and Hood (1999) recommended inclusion of OAEs and middle-ear measures as standard components of a
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