Introduction: Hearing impairment and hearing loss are kinds of latent handicap in children. Any abnormality in hearing can affect different aspects of life. Otoacoustic emissions have been accepted as an appropriate method for screening of hearing loss in neonates. In this study we assessed the hearing status of infants admitted in ICU wards in Yazd.Materials and methods: This was a cross-secti...

introduction: chronic otitis media (com), a persistent and durable inflammation and infection of the middle ear, is a common disorder. alterations in the contralateral ear in sufferers have been observed in recent years. because only a few studies have been reported in this area, we performed this study in order to assess alterations in the contralateral ear of patients with com.   materials an...

recurrent bacterial meningitis is not a common disease and makes physicians seek underlying predisposing factors which can result from anatomic anomalies or immunodeficiency. in this paper we present a boy with recurrent bacterial meningitis with the history of trauma and sensorineural hearing loss. mondini dysplasia was demonstrated with computed homographic scans (ct-scan) of temporal bones.

objective: the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of life skills training on decreasing social phobia (sp) disorder in students with hearing impairment. methods: the sample included 30 male students, age range from 8 to 18 years with hearing impairment recruited from exceptional schools. their age and iq were matched. they were randomly assigned into experimental and contr...

This report describes a patient whose ability to understand speech had so deteriorated over 20 years time that she was being considered for a cochlear implant, despite the fact that pure-tone sensitivity loss had not deteriorated proportionately. An unusual combination of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) and auditory evoked potential (AEP) results are described. Click-evoked and distortion product ...

background and aims: this is a pilot study investigated the prevalence of hearing impairment and the impact of the known risk factors for hearing loss on infants at risk born in kuwait. methods: two hundred infants with risk of hearing impairment who met the joint committee on infants hearing (1990) criteria were screened. all newborns were included in this study if they had hospital stay for m...

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...