Abstract The paper focuses on the question of whether it is morally permissible to use reproductive technologies select children with congenital deafness. I review arguments that have been presented support claims lack hearing not overall bad, disability caused by social discrimination rather than impairment, community deaf people gives its members plenty opportunities lead a happy life, and pr...

This study explores the role of working memory, language, and different time factors, including age at implant, time with implant, age at onset of deafness, duration of deafness, on word-decoding skills (rapid reading of isolated words and non-words) in eighteen Swedish children with cochlear implants, who lost their hearing before 36 months of age. In general there was wide variability in lang...

CONCLUSIONS Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a major cause of bilateral and unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children, accounting for 9.0% of SNHL cases. The diagnostic rate using combined genetic deafness test and CMV DNA detection test was determined to be 46.4% in bilateral profound SNHL. OBJECTIVES The present study investigated the prevalence of congenital CMV...

Disorders of attention deficit and overactivity, ADHD (DSM-IV), and hyperkinetic syndrome (ICD-10) are common and disabling. However, a number of factors in deaf children's development make the assessment of these disorders in deaf children problematic. The prevalence of ADHD and hyperkinetic disorder does not appear to be higher than expected in children with inherited deafness alone but does ...

The association of deafness with haemolytic disease of the newborn has been reported by several authors in the past few years. Goodhill (1950) attempted a follow-up of 46 cases of haemolytic disease of the newborn. Of the 15 cases he managed to trace, two showed a significant degree of perceptive deafness. In a further investigation he obtained birth histories from the mothers of 904 severely d...