A survey to identify the aetiology of hearing impairment among Saudi children was carried out. Children were divided into 2 groups according to presence or absence of laboratory evidence of toxoplasmosis "at risk' and "not at risk.' Serological tests for toxoplasmosis were done to 1054 children. We found positive IgM antibody against Toxoplasma gondii in the blood of 70 of the 1054 children (6....

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of hearing impairment in siblings of children with profound to total hearing impairment. METHOD Two hundred and twenty siblings of children at a deaf school in Karachi completed the screening program. This consisted of a questionnaire and pure tone audiometry. RESULTS One out of three (73 siblings) had a threshold of 25 dB or greater in their better ear. I...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the perspectives of adults with hearing impairment on hearing help-seeking and rehabilitation. DESIGN Individual semi-structured interviews were completed. STUDY SAMPLE In total, 34 adults with hearing impairment in four countries (Australia, Denmark, UK, and USA) participated. Participants had a range of experience with hearing help-seeking and rehabilitat...

introduction: according to world health organization (who) 2001 statistics, hearing disorders are the most common congenital disease, and the incidence rate among high-risk newborns is as much as ten times as high as that in healthy neonates. however, 78% of screening test failures are well-baby nursery babies. the joint committee on infants’ hearing (jcih) has emphasized the importance of earl...

Objective We investigated cross-sectional gender-specific associations with vision, hearing, and both (dual) impairment depression chronic anxiety using a large representative sample of Spanish adults. Methods The present study utilized data from the National Health Survey 2017. A total 23,089 adults (15–103 years, 45.9% men) participated in this survey. Participants self-reported whether they ...

This article examines the process of formation self-identification children with hearing impairment. In particular, main attention is focused on a hearing-impaired child, as result reading artistic works. The paper outlines general state inclusive educational and teaching suggests ways solving personal barriers through implementation quality literary in

Children with hearing impairment show difficulties in sentences derived by Wh-movement, such as relative clauses and Wh-questions. This study examines the nature of this deficit in 48 hearing impaired children aged 9-12 years and 38 hearing controls. The task involved reading aloud and paraphrasing of object relatives that include a noun-verb heterophonic homograph. The correct pronunciation of...

This study investigated the Cantonese tone production ability of children with hearing impairment studying in mainstream schools. The participants were 87 Cantonese-speaking children with mild-to-profound degrees of hearing loss aged 5.92-13.58 in Hong Kong. Most of the children were fitted with hearing aids (n = 65); 17 of them had profound hearing impairment, one who had severe hearing loss h...