1 / 11

Assessing Hearing Loss in Infants and Young Children

Although it’s often difficult to tell if your child is suffering from some hearing conditions or problems as it usually occurs gradually when the child is developing, there are screening and evaluation tests carried out to asses hearing in newborns and young children.

Télécharger la présentation

Assessing Hearing Loss in Infants and Young Children

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Assessing Hearing Loss in Infants and Young Children

  2. Doesn’t your child respond from a distance or to familiar sounds and other voices? • Does your child find it difficult to understand words clearly? • Isn’t your baby startled by loud noises?

  3. Although it’s often difficult to tell if your child is suffering from some hearing conditions or problems as it usually occurs gradually when the child is developing, there are screening and evaluation tests carried out to asses hearing in newborns and young children.

  4. Why Hearing Tests and Assessments? Hearing loss is a common problem that can congenital that is present at birth or acquired. While you may notice or spot signs and behaviours that indicate hearing loss in your child during their development, screening tests are conducted shortly after birth to identify children with significant hearing loss or impairment.

  5. Routine hearing tests can help detect hearing issues in an infant or child early on and provide support and a suitable treatment they may need in the near future. Without these routine screenings, your child’s hearing disorders could go undiagnosed for months and years and cause delays in their speech and language development as well as educational progress troubles.

  6. When is a child’s hearing tested or checked? It is always advised to have your child’s hearing tested promptly so that the child can be provided with the medical support and help he/she needs early on. Generally, a child’s hearing is tested within a few weeks of birth, also called newborn hearing screening and is considered a routine test for all children.

  7. Some children may require a follow-up to their newborn screening at around eight months to one year of their birth. Most children go through a screening test when they start their school. The test may be conducted at school or the hearing centre nearby your location.

  8. Screening Tests for Newborns and Young Children Newborns are screened for potential hearing loss and impairment using two quick tests namely automated otoacoustic emissions (AOAE) test and automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) test.

  9. The AOAE test involves placing a soft earpiece in child’s ear and playing sounds to take up the response from the inner ear and analyse the results. AABR test, on the other hand, uses three sensors that are placed on the child’s head and around the neck and clicking sounds are played through soft headphones. The sensors detect responses from the child’s brain and hearing nerves that are analysed to detect issues.

  10. For young children, there are a number of screening tests including speech perception test, tympanometry, bone conduction test, visual reinforcement audiometry, play audiometry and pure tone audiometry that spot potential hearing issues in them. These test are usually conducted at an audiology department or hearing centre and possible solutions to the child’s hearing disposers are advised by the audiologist.

More Related