INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Minimising false positives rates is an important goal of universal newborn hearing screening programmes. An adequate way for reaching that goal could be differentiating between transient conductive hearing losses (false positives) and permanent sensorineural hearing impairments (true positives) by means of a methodology that studies electrophysiological responses obt...

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...

This study compared the training and protocols used by two groups of elementary school hearing screeners: one group of school nurses and one group of contractually hired personnel. The participants were asked to complete a survey concerning their training, screening protocols, and opinions on minimal hearing loss (MHL). Results revealed that the school nurses listed more sources of training and...

Address correspondence to: Adrian Davis, Ph.D., Professor, FFPH FSS FRSA, MRC Hearing and Communication Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK, [email protected] Brilliant technology with poor service implementation will not deliver good outcomes, so the task of developing good services to match the new technology needs equal time, skill and commitment. A multicen...