OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To explore the genetic characteristics of children with cochlear implants (CIs) and to correlate the auditory performance after implantation to the genetic diagnosis of children with CIs. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS Mutations of four common deafness-associated genes, GJB2, SLC26A4, the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene, and OTOF, were screened in 743 unrel...

Aim: To identify the role of consanguinity in the appearance of deafness in children of consanguineously married couples. Materials & methods: This retrospective, record based, survey type study was carried out during April-July, 2007. We completed a questionnaire for each student after interviewing the student and the parent or guardian. We also consulted the record at the school. The data was...

is not found and the caretaker relative still refuses to cooperate, the caretaker becomes ineligible for benefits, and assistance is provided to the eligible child in tte form of protective payments, without regard to the needs of the caretaker relative. Therefore, if eligibility is determined and/or payments are made prior to the rejection of a good cause claim, it may become necessary . to re...

Policymakers have long hoped to find ways to buffer children from the ravages of poverty without excusing parents from the responsibility of providing for their offspring. For 60 years, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program guaranteed cash assistance for poor single-parent families, allowing the mothers to remain home with their children. In 1993, federal and state governme...

Introduction: Hearing impairment is the most frequent sensorial congenital defect in newborns and has increased to 2–4 cases per 1,000 live births. Sensory-neural hearing loss (SNHL) accounts for more than 90% of all hearing loss. This disorder is associated with other congenital disorders such as renal, skeletal, ocular, and cardiac disorders. Given that congenital heart diseases are life-thre...

Cochlear implants are devices that allow deaf people to hear. Consequently, implanting them in children seems to be a very beneficent intervention. However, some deaf parents have opposed it in the name of the preservation of their culture. For them, deafness is a rich culture with its own language (signing), and implanting their children will prevent them from being members of their parents' c...

A major source of controversy between Deaf people and those who support a "social/cultural" view of Deafness as "a life to be lived" and those who see deafness within a "medical model" as a "condition to be cured" has been over the cochlear implantation of young deaf children. Recent research has shown that there are noticeable inequities in access to such procedures in western countries; inequ...

Age at implantation is considered to be a major factor, influencing outcomes after pediatric cochlear implantation. In the absence of acoustic input, it has been proposed that cross-modal reorganization can detrimental for adaptation new electrical input provided by implant. Here, through retrospective study, we aimed investigate differences in cerebral blood flow (CBF) rest prior children with...

Introduction: Dermatoglyphics is the study of dermal ridges and patterns. It frequently used for diagnosis several diseases in human body including congenital deafness. Congenital deafness appears children diagnosed through pathological tests, genetic investigations, or other anatomical measures. Objective: To establish a potential relationship between identification Methods: Forty deaf male fe...

PURPOSE To demonstrate CT abnormalities encountered in children with postmeningitic deafness and to assess the value of CT in the prediction of cochlear implantation difficulties. METHODS Thirteen children with postmeningitic deafness were evaluated with high-resolution, thin-section CT. CT findings were correlated with surgical anatomy at the time of cochlear implantation, with particular re...