A proposal for comprehensive newborn hearing screening to improve identification of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

ABSTRACT: Early intervention for newborns who are deaf or hard-of-hearing leads to improved language, communication, and social-emotional outcomes. Universal physiologic newborn hearing screening has been widely implemented across the United States with the goal of identifying newborns who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, thereby reducing time to diagnosis and intervention. The current physiologic newborn hearing screen is generally successful in accomplishing its goals but improvements could be made. In the past ten years, genetic testing has emerged as the most important etiological diagnostic test for evaluation of children with deafness and congenital cytomegalovirus has been recognized as a major cause of childhood deafness that may be treatable. A comprehensive newborn hearing screen that includes

SUBMITTER: Shearer AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6831511 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature