The concept of neural plasticity and the early natural abilities of hearing children to acquire speech and language without instruction have led many authorities to advocate cochlear implantation before the age of 5 years in congenital deafness. Older children therefore become lower priority for scarce public funds because they are perceived to have passed the "window of opportunity" to learn s...

(See the articles by Ogawa et al., on pages 782–8, and by Schleiss et al., on pages 789–98.) It has been 50 years since Smith [1] and Weller et al. [2] separately reported the isolation and propagation of a cytopath-ogenic virus from tissues of infants with cytomegalic inclusion disease. In the intervening half century, much has been learned about congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, as ...

CONTEXT Congenital hearing loss affects between 1 and 3 out of every 1,000 children. Screening of all neonates has been made possible by the development of portable automated devices. Universal screening is a 2-stage screening process using automated transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions, followed when indicated by automated auditory brain response testing. Targeted screening reserves the 2-st...

Toxoplasmosis is a systemic infection caused by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which is transmitted through the ingestionofcontaminated food. Less frequently, toxoplasmosis is acquired by blood transfusion or an organ transplant. Congenital toxoplasmosis, which is caused by vertical transmission from the mother to the fetus, has an estimated prevalence of 20% of infected mothers tran...

OBJECTIVE The advent of technologic improvements in assessing the hearing of newborn infants has made possible the implementation of universal newborn hearing screening. Furthermore, selective screening based on high-risk criteria fails to detect half of all infants with congenital hearing loss. Although universal screening has been recommended by the National Institutes of Health and the Joint...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disease that includes wide range of functional impairments, such as social and communication deficiencies, well limited selective interest behavioral patterns are repetitive. Children with ASD often show developmental delay, which noticeable at an early age, symptoms interfere daily functioning, so diagnosis interventions. A complex set gen...

Objectives: The current study aimed at investigating the impact of SHOFER computer game on visual-motor coordination in children with hearing impairments. Methods: The current pre-test, post-test experimental study was conducted in Ahvaz, Iran in 2018. Sixteen preschool children with hearing impairment were randomly assigned into two groups of experimental (n=8) and control (n=8). The experime...

OBJECTIVES The study goal was to evaluate the hearing follow up results in patients who underwent surgery for congenital aural atresia. We studied hearing results and correlated them with Jahrsdoerfer prognostic classification. Protocols management of unilateral and bilateral atresia auris are written considering to our results and other authors. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate risk indicators for congenital and delayed onset hearing loss in a cohort of newborns who underwent newborn hearing screening, and to evaluate the impact of use of the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH) recommendations on requirements for ongoing monitoring of infants identified as at risk for hearing loss. PATIENTS AND METHODS Cohort of 26,341 newborns entered in ...