"When Opal could first hear us clapping unaided it was mind-blowing — we were so happy when the clinical team confirmed at 24 weeks that her hearing was also picking up softer sounds and speech," her mother Jo
this loss results in auditory perceptual problems such as difficulty understanding speech in noise, reduced localization ability, poor understanding of the person talking on the side of the deaf ear, loss of binaural summation, and reduced spatial balance. in children, these difficulties have been ...
eNIHR South Manchester Respiratory and Allergy Clinical Research Facility, Manchester, UK; fCommunication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; gManchester Centre for Health Psychology, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester,...
byCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Universal screening of newborns for hearing loss before they leave the hospital is not enough to improve language skills of children who are deaf and hard of hearing, according to a new study. Research scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medic...