For every 1,000 births, an average of two children are born with a hearing disorder. Problems with hearing can greatly affect a child’s development. Newborn hearing screening was introduced in Germany to assess hearing abilities at an early stage. What is newborn hearing screening? Newborn hearing screening is an early detection examination to diagnose hearing … Newborn Hearing Screening: Treatment, Effects & Risks
Audiometry is used to examine and measure functional parameters of the auditory organ and to delineate sound conduction and sound perception disorders. The variety of procedures used covers a wide spectrum from simple tuning fork tests to complex subjective and objective sound and speech audiometric procedures. Objective procedures also include electrical brainstem audiometry for objective … Audiometry: Treatment, Effect & Risks
In noninvasive brainstem audiometry, the neurologist or otolaryngologist performs an objective hearing performance measurement under auditory stimulation using impulses from the auditory nerve pathways that can be traced to the middle brainstem. This procedure is one of the few methods for objective assessment of hearing performance that can be performed on young children or otherwise … Brainstem Audiometry: Treatment, Effects & Risks
Pediatric audiology deals with childhood hearing, voice, swallowing, and speech disorders, as well as disorders of speech development. Together with phoniatrics, pediatric audiology forms an independent specialty that was managed as a sub-specialty of otolaryngology (ENT) until 1993. Pediatric audiology, like phoniatrics, has a strong interdisciplinary character because the problems that arise are often not … Pediatric Audiology: Treatment, Effects & Risks