Consensus Development Conference on Early Identification of Hearing Impairment in Infants and Young Children
Subtitle: [program and abstracts] : NIH Consensus Development Conference, March 1-3, 1993, Masur Auditorium, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Contributors: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Medical Applications of Research.; National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (U.S.)
Publisher: National Institutes of Health
Published: 1993
Place of publication: [Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Hearing Disorders -- Child; Hearing Disorders -- Infant; Hearing Disorders -- diagnosis
Other titles: Early identification of hearing impairment in infants and young children.; NIH Consensus Development Conference.
Notes: Cover title: Early identification of hearing impairment in infants and young children.

"Sponsored by the Office of Medical Applications of Research and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and cosponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Early identification of hearing impairment in infants and yound children / Robert J. Ruben; title: Taxonomy; title: Site of lesion and age of onset / Jerome O. Klein; title: Causal factors and concomitant impairment / Michael A. Karchmer; title: Epidemiology; title: Incidence/prevalence / Patrick E. Brookhouser; title: At-risk populations / N. Wendell Todd; title: Developmental consequences of early hearing impairment; title: Auditory development / Joseph W. Hall; title: Language acquisitions / Mary P. Moeller; title: Effects of hearing impairment on the development of speech / D. Kimbrough; title: Social/emotional and academic consequences of hearing loss / Diane Brackett; title: Benefits of screening at birth: economic, educational, and functional factors / Marion P. Downs; title: Methodology, instrumentation and personnel; title: High-risk register / Allan O. Diefendorf; title: Behavioral measures / Judith S. Gravel; title: Acoustic immittance measures / Robert H. Margolis; title: Developmental screening in a busy clinic: a luxury or a necessity? / Noel D. Matkin; title: Recording the auditory brainstem response in infants / Terence W. Picton.; title: (cont) Auditory brainstem response in infants: basic aspects / Richard C. Folsom; title: Auditory brainstem response testing in the neonatal intensive care unit / Bruce A. Weber; title: Evaluation of hearing in the neonate using the auditory brainstem response / Yvonne S. Sininger; title: Hearing screening of infants with auditory brainstem response: protocols, personnel and price / James W. Hall, III; title: Otoacoustic emissions: basic aspects / Theodore J. Glattke; title: Utility of distortion-product otoacoustic emissions in identifying hearing impairment in infants and young children / Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin; title: Characteristics of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions in pediatric populations / Susan J. Norton; title: Practicality, validity and cost-efficiency of universal newborn hearing screening using evoked otoacoustic emissions / Karl R. White; title: Models for early identification and followup: an overview / Robert G. Turner; title: U.S.A. models / Thomas M. Mahoney; title: Canadian models and issues / Martyn L. Hyde; title: Public health perspective on screening-U.K. experience and recommendations / Mark P. Haggard.