The good news is that children identified with hearing loss at birth develop a normal vocabulary of 500 to 1000 words by the time they're three. But if hearing loss isn't detected until they're two or three years old, children will learn feewer than 100 words. Our screening system tests the baby's entire hearing pathway, from the ear to the brainstem. It records the baby's brainwave responses to a series of soft clicks and compares them to a pattern of normal responses. The testing is conducted while the baby sleeps, is non-invasive, and takes from 2 to 15 minutes.
Parents have the results prior to discharge from the hospital.
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