The baby's hearing loss can be caused by either genetic defects, infections during pregnancy or low birth weight. When compared to all causes of hearing loss, congenital hearing loss is quite rare: about 1% of babies are born with hearing loss.1...
Effectiveness of targeted surveillance to identify moderate to profound permanent childhood hearing impairment in babies with risk factors who pass newborn screening. Int J Audiol. 2013;52:394–9. PubMed Google Scholar Joint Committee on Infant Hearing, American Academy of Audiology, American ...
It never crossed my mind that the girls wouldn't have the babies."What has happened to my daughters could have happened to any number of families with girls their age."Now there'll be seven of us in a four-bedroom house. But we'll manage. What's done is done. We have to make ...
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
For more adventures misinformation dissemination, it was hard to beat Rhode Island’s David Cicilline. Rep Cicilline on stabilizing braces: “When attached here, it turns this weapon into an automatic weapon. It becomes a bump stock, and so it will allow that to essentially be fired...