Consensus Development Conference on Early Identification of Hearing Impairment in Infants and Young Children : NIH Consensus Development Conference, March 1-3, 1993, Masur Auditorium, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes ofHealth, Bethesda, Maryland / National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (U.S.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (U.S.), author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hearing disorders in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 135 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bethesda, Md : National Institutes of Health, 1993.

Contents:

Early identification of hearing impairment in infants and yound children / Robert J. Ruben

Taxonomy

Site of lesion and age of onset / Jerome O. Klein

Causal factors and concomitant impairment / Michael A. Karchmer

Epidemiology

Incidence/prevalence / Patrick E. Brookhouser

At-risk populations / N. Wendell Todd

Developmental consequences of early hearing impairment

Auditory development / Joseph W. Hall

Language acquisitions / Mary P. Moeller

Effects of hearing impairment on the development of speech / D. Kimbrough

Social/emotional and academic consequences of hearing loss / Diane Brackett

Benefits of screening at birth: economic, educational, and functional factors / Marion P. Downs

Methodology, instrumentation and personnel

High-risk register / Allan O. Diefendorf

Behavioral measures / Judith S. Gravel

Acoustic immittance measures / Robert H. Margolis

Developmental screening in a busy clinic: a luxury or a necessity? / Noel D. Matkin

Recording the auditory brainstem response in infants / Terence W. Picton. (cont) Auditory brainstem response in infants: basic aspects / Richard C. Folsom

Auditory brainstem response testing in the neonatal intensive care unit / Bruce A. Weber

Evaluation of hearing in the neonate using the auditory brainstem response / Yvonne S. Sininger

Hearing screening of infants with auditory brainstem response: protocols, personnel and price / James W. Hall, III

Otoacoustic emissions: basic aspects / Theodore J. Glattke

Utility of distortion-product otoacoustic emissions in identifying hearing impairment in infants and young children / Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin

Characteristics of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions in pediatric populations / Susan J. Norton

Practicality, validity and cost-efficiency of universal newborn hearing screening using evoked otoacoustic emissions / Karl R. White

Models for early identification and followup: an overview / Robert G. Turner

U.S.A. models / Thomas M. Mahoney

Canadian models and issues / Martyn L. Hyde

Public health perspective on screening-U.K. experience and recommendations / Mark P. Haggard.

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