METHODS Investigators reviewed websites of state departments of health and education, and legislation for all 50 states and DC. For states with mandated screenings and a required form, investigators applied structured analysis to assess HBL inclusion. RESULTS No state mandated that schools require screening for all 7 HBLs. Less than half (49%) required comprehensive school health examinations...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to identify predictors of hearing thresholds (best-ear pure-tone average at 1, 2, and 4 kHz) and hearing deterioration in order to define potential target groups for hearing screening. METHODS We analyzed data from the Maastricht Aging Study, a Dutch cohort (aged 24-81 years; N = 1,721) that was observed for 12 years. Mixed model analysis was used to calculate each...

Hearing impairment substantially affects child's ability to normally acquire the spoken language. Such negative effects create problems for the child not only in terms of communication but also in terms of achievement in school as well as social and emotional growth. The aim of this research is to study the prevalence of hearing disorders and its relationship to age and gender among primary sch...

Purpose: The goal of this study was to investigate how the use of a 25 dB HL referral criterion in school screenings affects the identification of hearing loss categorized as minimal sensorineural hearing loss (MSHL). Method: A retrospective study applied screening levels of 20 and 25 dB HL at 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz in each ear to previously obtained pure-tone thresholds for 1,475 school-age c...

BACKGROUND For quality assurance reasons, it is important to monitor the services provided over time for infants and their families through both hospital and community-based early hearing detection and intervention programs (EHDIPs) and to compare results for local programs to national benchmarks. This two-part study is an update to earlier reports published for a particular EHDIP. PURPOSE To...

Introduction: Although various liquid, solid, and gaseous streams of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have been analyzed in many studies for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, no study was found to sample and detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in screenings and grit samples separated from primary treatment units of WWTP. Hence, this study aims to provide an experimental protocol for sampling and extracting ...

The objective of this study is to examine the early care trajectories of congenitally deaf children from a parental perspective, starting with universal neonatal hearing screenings. The analysis using a three-dimensional care trajectory concept is aimed at developing a basic typology of postscreening care trajectories. Children with severe/profound hearing loss, registered in the Flanders' (Bel...

PURPOSE Disability is a significant problem and is accepted globally as a health priority in childhood. Like nonvisually impaired children, visually impaired children also need to use health services during childhood. The purpose of this study was to determine the health problems of visually impaired children. METHODS A descriptive design was used. The subjects were 74 children with visual im...

The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is commonly used as a neonatal hearing screening tool. The degree to which myogenic and/or movement artifact can confound the ABR in neonates, and the effect this has on screening pass-fail rates, although widely recognized, have not been reported. This study addressed these aspects in a clinical setting. Fifty-two high-risk neonates were screened in variou...