From Neonatal Hearing Screening to Intervention: Results of the Dutch Program for Neonatal Hearing Screening in Well Babies

Results of a neonatal hearing screening program in Maceió.

UNLABELLED Since 1998, after we started the support group for neonatal hearing screening, many other hearing screening programs were held in Brazil. In Alagoas, the first program started in 2003, but none of its results were published. Hearing is paramount for human communication; therefore, childhood hearing loss can impair speech acquisition, emotional, educational and social development. A...

Results of a neonatal hearing screening program in Maceió Summary

[Neonatal hearing screening].

Auditory deprivation in early life significantly effects speech, language, cognition and learning development. The importance of neonatal hearing screening in order to detect and manage children with hearing impairment during the critical period before three years of age can't be neglected. The neonatal hearing screening program at Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, under a cooperation of audio...

Neonatal screening for hearing impairment.

Scope of this discussion Hearing impairment in childhood may be conductive or sensorineural or a combination of the two (mixed) with additive eVects. Impairments aVect one or both ears, vary from mild to profound in degree, and may be congenital, acquired, transient, fluctuating, recurrent, progressive, or permanent. Screening positive for hearing impairment at any age leads firstly to the need...

Neonatal hearing screening: otolaryngologist's perspective.

1. Nelson HD, Bougatsos C, Nygren P. Universal newborn Hearing screening: systematic review to update the 2001 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation. Pediatrics. 2008;122:e266-76. 2. American Academy of Pediatrics, Joint Committee on Infant Hearing Year 2007 position statement: Principles and guidelines for early hearing detection and intervention programs. Pediatrics. 2007;120:898-9...