Hearing aid use in Finnish children—impact of hearing loss variables and detection delay

Newborn hearing screening and strategy for early detection of hearing loss in infants

“…Both methods have some advantages and also some disadvantages. If the screening is not universal, more than 30% of hearing losses remain undiscovered before the age of 3 years [1,2,5,14]. Screening can identify unilateral hearing losses.…”

Hearing Impaired Children's Preference for, and Performance with, Four Combinations of Directional Microphone and Digital Noise Reduction Technology

“…The available evidence suggests that children's use and acceptance of hearing aids was quite poor until newborn hearing screening became the universal standard (Gaeth and Lounsbury, 1966;Markides, 1989). Since then, hearing aid use by infants and young children has improved (Marttila and Karikoski, 2006;Walker et al, 2013); however, older children's acceptance of hearing aids continues to decline during the gradeschool years and into adulthood (Markides, 1989;Seifert et al, 2001). As many as half of grade-school children with hearing loss opt to wear only one hearing aid or none at all, placing them at greater risk for social, academic, vocational, and emotional problems during adolescence (Hintermair, 2006;Punch et al, 2006;Hintermair, 2007).…”

Tradução e adaptação do questionário ABEL: Auditory Behavior in Everyday Life para o Português Brasileiro

“…As for the daily use of hearing aids, other research has considered this factor in the development of auditory abilities in children with some degree of hearing loss. One study indicates that some factors may be related to better adaptation to the individual hearing aids (10) . According to these authors, children with loss of between 50 and 90 dBHL use hearing aid more often.…”