introduction: neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most important factors affecting the auditory system and can cause sensorineural hearing loss. this study investigated the relationship between behavioral hearing thresholds in children with a history of jaundice and the maximum level of bilirubin concentration in the blood.   materials and methods: this study was performed on 18 children ...

Introduction: Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most important factors affecting the auditory system and can cause sensorineural hearing loss. This study investigated the relationship between behavioral hearing thresholds in children with a history of jaundice and the maximum level of bilirubin concentration in the blood.   Materials and Methods: This study was performed on 18 children...

The behavioral evaluation of hearing in very young infants has been fraught with procedural and interpretive problems. Despite the introduction of current physiological techniques of estimating hearing sensitivity, such as otoacoustic emissions and auditory brainstem-evoked responses, behavioral hearing assessment of young infants remains of interest to researchers of infant behavior and to cli...

BACKGROUND Hearing threshold estimation based on cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) has been applied for some decades. However, available research is scarce evaluating the accuracy of this technique with an automated paradigm for the objective detection of CAEPs. PURPOSE To determine the difference between behavioral and CAEP thresholds detected using an objective paradigm based on t...

Owing to its subjective nature, behavioral pure-tone audiometry often is an unreliable testing method in uncooperative subjects, and assessing the true hearing threshold becomes difficult. In such cases, objective tests are used for hearing-threshold determination (i.e., auditory brainstem evoked potentials [ABEP] and frequency-specific auditory evoked potentials: slow negative response at 10 m...

OBJECTIVE 1) To examine the distribution of behavioral hearing thresholds in a group of children who had shown no click-evoked auditory brain stem response (ABR) at maximum presentation levels. 2) To describe the relationship between the 90 Hz steady-state evoked potential (SSEP) and behavioral thresholds in these subjects. DESIGN A retrospective study based on clinical findings obtained from...

The importance of early identification and habilitation of hearing loss for improved access to auditory stimuli and for positive prognosis of speech and language is well established in the literature (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association [ASHA] 2004; Hyde 2005; Joint Commission on Infant Hearing [JCIH] 2007; Kennedy, McCann, Campbell, Kimm and Thornton 2005; Yoshinaga-Itano and Gravel 2...

The aided threshold (and functional gain) has been used as a behavioral verification tool since the early 1960s to document the improvement in hearing sensitivity with hearing aid use. Clinicians judge the adequacy of amplification by examining if the aided threshold reaches a prescribed target value. The functional gain provided by the hearing aids, or the difference in audiometer dial reading...

Hypoacusis is the most prevalent sensory disability in the world and consequently, it can lead to impede speech in human beings. One best approach to tackle this issue is to conduct early and effective hearing screening test using Electroencephalogram (EEG). EEG based hearing threshold level determination is most suitable for persons who lack verbal communication and behavioral response to soun...