Newborn hearing screening is the standard of care in hospitals nationwide. The primary purpose of newborn hearing screening is to identify newborns who are likely to have hearing loss and who require ...

Newborns are routinely screened for hearing loss; screening typically occurs in the newborn nursery and newborn intensive care unit. Understanding the process and outcomes of initial hearing screening ...

(KUTV) Approximately six out of every one-thousand babies are born with permanent hearing loss. “If a baby is born with hearing loss, it’s an invisible thing that you really can’t tell at first,” says ...

Researchers have created a newborn hearing screening system that uses cheap earbuds and a smartphone instead of an expensive commercial device. Newborns across the United States are screened to check ...

A commonly used newborn hearing test shows promise in the early detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), new research shows. Results from one of the largest studies of its kind show the auditory ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some 170,000 out of 227,000 individuals with hearing problems are in moderate, severe, and profound hearing loss groups. The Welfare Organization offers a wide range of services to people with hearing ...