Auditory steady-state response (ASSR) audiometry is a commercially available tool that is used to predict behavioral auditory threshold levels. Its particular value stems from the technology's ability to measure frequency-specific responses in the background electroencephalogram to auditory stimuli presented across a broad range of frequencies and sound pressure levels. It is clearly of benefit...

OBJECTIVE Hearing impairment in children across the world constitutes a particularly serious obstacle to their optimal development and education, including language acquisition. Around 0.5-6 in every 1000 neonates and infants have congenital or early childhood onset sensorineural deafness or severe-to-profound hearing impairment, with significant consequences. Therefore, early detection is a vi...

purpose: to determine the anatomical sites and causes of severe visual impairment (svi) and blindness in children attending a school for the blind in ahvaz. methods: in this case series study, all 51 students of the only school for the blind in ahvaz were examined by two ophthalmologists. blindness and svi were defined according to the world health organization (who) criteria as visual acuity l...

Objective: To investigate the clinical predictors of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL). Methods: One hundred twenty patients with SSNHL underwent auditory evaluations and MRI examinations. Their audiometric parameters, clinical presentation and MRI results were analyzed to explore which types of patients with SSNHL should unde...

OBJECTIVES Children with hearing loss are at risk of developing psychopathology, which has detrimental consequences for academic and psychosocial functioning later in life. Yet, the causes of the extensive variability in outcomes are not fully understood. Therefore, the authors wanted to objectify symptoms of psychopathology in children with cochlear implants or hearing aids, and in normally he...

introduction: the prevalence of hearing loss in neonates is 2-5 out of every 1,000 live births. global health committee, american academy of otolaryngology, and american academy of pediatrics have recommended that hearing loss in infants be identified, and treated when possible, prior to 6 months of age. this study was designed with the aim to screen the hearing of neonates in mashhad, iran. me...

BACKGROUND Cochlear implant in children, speech perception and oral language, hearing and oral language performance in children with pre-lingual profound sensory-neural hearing impairment, users of cochlear implant. AIM To study the hearing and oral language performance of children with pre-lingual bilateral profound sensory neural hearing impairment, users of multi-channel cochlear implant c...