Chris Brennan-Jones receives funding from the Cochlear Foundation, the Lions Hearing Foundation (WA) and has previously received funding from the Medical Research ...

Newborn children were not usually screened for hearing deficiency in the past. This was primarily because the technology to do so did not exist as yet. This resulted in lifelong problems with speech ...

Newborns across the United States are screened to check for hearing loss. This test is important because it helps families better understand their child's health, but it's often not accessible to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A smartphone-based device performed comparably to a traditional otoacoustic emission probe for screening. The ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Tegan: When my babies were a couple of days old, they were taken to a special room, fitted with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The guidelines consist of 11 evidence-based key action statements on age-related hearing loss evaluation and ...

As late identification of hearing problems among the newborns can result in permanent hearing loss, newborn screening has been given a priority. Any delay in the identification causes a hurdle in the ...

Newborn screening in the United States routinely checks every baby, within the first one to two days of birth, to provide critically important information about the child’s health. There are three ...

Congenital hearing loss ( hearing loss that is present at birth) affects about 1 to 3 out of every 1,000 newborn babies. Even a mild or partial hearing loss can affect a child' speech, language, and ...

Most newborns have their hearing tested while they are still in the hospital, but those tests may not catch all severe hearing loss. One-third of children who were treated for deafness with cochlear ...