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Then I found it: an old inn on the southern coast of Maine that rented us one of its best rooms for $100 a night. Guess what? It didn't have a website. I took my chances based on a good review, a great location and a bargain price. It...
Anyone who has ever witnessed the miracle in which infants progress from mewling to "Mama" to "Mine!" knows how critical it is for youngsters to hear normally before they speak their first words. Indeed, many children who don't talk by age two turn out to be deaf. The sooner...
Their appeal has registered in some powerful ears. To date, 22 states have passed legislation requiring at least partial screening programs. And last November the U.S. Congress okayed some federal funds for hearing campaigns. Part of the push stems from advances in technology that, among other things, allow children as...
Audiologists estimate that 3 out of every 1,000 babies are born with some kind of hearing loss. Of those three infants, one is profoundly deaf. About half the time, doctors can identify a possible cause, such as a birth weight less than 5 lbs. or a family history of...
The screening tests work by introducing a sound into a baby's ear and then measuring either the response of the ear's internal mechanisms (the otoacoustic emissions test) or the electrical activity of the auditory portion of the brain (the auditory brain-stem response test). Just because a baby...