Search results for " Hearing"

Neonatal Hearing Screening: Three years of experience in Western Sicily

2006

Keypoints to Successful Newborn Hearing Screening. Thirty Years of Experience and Innovations

2021

Congenital deafness is a major pediatric problem, affecting about 1.5–3 per 1000 newborns. The early treatment through cochlear implantation and auditory rehabilitation has been a historic milestone. Early diagnosis of congenital deafness is an essential requirement to obtain the best results, which is achieved through neonatal screening, a diagnostic practice that we began systematically at the Hospital Clínico in Valencia (Spain) 30 years ago. Neonatal hearing screening is successful in most developed countries. Its implementation has been slow due to the multiple difficulties that its universal application entails since it involves several health professionals and must be carried out, in…

Genetic determinants of ototoxicity during and after childhood cancer treatment: Protocol for the pancarelife study

2019

BACKGROUND: Survival rates after childhood cancer now reach nearly 80% in developed countries. However, treatments that lead to survival and cure can cause serious adverse effects with lifelong negative impacts on survivor quality of life. Hearing impairment is a common adverse effect in children treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy or cranial radiotherapy. Ototoxicity can extend from high-tone hearing impairment to involvement of speech frequencies. Hearing impairment can impede speech and language and neurocognitive development. Although treatment-related risk factors for hearing loss following childhood cancer treatment have been identified, the individual variability in toxicity of…

SAT0513 Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials and Visual Potentials in Kawasaki Disease: Expression of CNS Vasculitis?

2015

Background Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute, self-limited vasculitis of infants and children that is nowadays the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children. Transient sensorineural hearing loss (20 to 35 dB) is a possible complication of acute phase KD and may be related to salicylate toxicity in some patients. Objectives Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials (BAEPs) , and Visual Evoked Potentials (VEPs) were examined in 43 children (age: 0,8-7,5 years) affected by KD. No risk factors for hearing loss and/or neurological impairment of CNS were identified in all the patients. BAEPs showed altered waves II to V, in 18 patients (42%). Among these, in 4 patients (20%) VEPs showed …

Haploinsufficiency of 16.4 Mb from chromosome 22pter-q11.21 in a girl with unilateral conductive hearing loss.

2009

We present the postnatal diagnosis of a de novo der(18)t(18;22)(p11.32;q11.21)pat, resulting in an unbalanced 45,XX,der (18)t(18;22) karyotype in a girl with conductive hearing loss on the left and ptosis of the right upper eye-lid. Unilateral ptosis was also observed in the patient’s 2 years and 8 months younger sister, who grows noticeably faster and appears to be a much quicker learner. After speech therapy the patient was eventually placed in normal school. The haploinsufficient 16.4-Mb region on chromosome 22pter→q11.21 contains 10 genes as well as many predicted genes, pseudogenes, and retrotransposed sequences with unknown functions. This observation may prove useful for prenatal dia…

Prevalence of Hearing Impairment Among High-Risk Newborns in Ibadan, Nigeria

2018

The burden of severe hearing impairment is increasing with two-thirds of these hearing impaired people residing in developing countries. Newborn hearing screening helps to identify early, babies who need intervention in order to prevent future disability. Neither universal nor targeted hearing screening programme is available in Nigeria. Objectives: This study was carried out to assess the prevalence of hearing impairment among high-risk newborns in UCH and the associated risk factors. Materials and Methods: Two hundred one newborns in the neonatal unit of UCH with risk factors for hearing impairment had hearing screening done using automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) at 30, 45, an…

Essential of audiology: screening and postscreening

2014

Newborn hearing screening is a type of screening testfor the early detection of hearing loss. It can recognizewith good accuracy newborns affected by hearingimpairment allowing an early diagnosis and interventionand avoiding cognitive and linguistic deficits [1-6].The incidence of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss(SNHL) in Sicily is 2.35 cases per 1000 newborns; thisvalue increases to 2.95 if we consider also unilateral SNHL[2,3] and to 10 cases per 1000 births among infants at risk[7-9].A correct newborn hearing screening programme isbased on different protocols depending on the presence/absence of audiologic risk factors:† Newborns without risk factors: [1-3]Initial Hearing Screening (…

Therapy Strategies for Usher Syndrome Type 1C in the Retina

2014

The Usher syndrome (USH) is the most common form of inherited deaf-blindness with a prevalence of ~ 1/6,000. Three clinical subtypes (USH1–USH3) are defined according to the severity of the hearing impairment, the presence or absence of vestibular dysfunction and the age of onset of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). USH1 is the most severe subtype with congenital severe to profound hearing loss and onset of RP before puberty. Currently only the amelioration of the hearing deficiency is implemented, but no treatment of the senso-neuronal degeneration in the eye exists.

La educación auditiva como eje vertebrador de la educación musical en la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

2013

El presente trabajo se enmarca dentro de un estudio de mayores dimensiones motivado por el interés de los autores en la didáctica de la audición musical, convencidos de que los principios fundamentales sobre los que se debería apoyar la educación musical actualmente en la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria son, por una parte, la necesidad de una mayor contribución de la misma a una educación integradora de todas las dimensiones del ser humano, y por otra, la conveniencia de otorgarle un mayor protagonismo a la educación auditiva en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de la materia de música en dicha etapa educativa. El propósito es dar respuesta a una serie de interrogantes que surgen en torn…

Early signs of dyslexia from the speech and language processing of children

2009

The Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia project (JLD) has followed the development of 200 children from birth until 10 years of age. Half the children are from families in which at least one of the parents has dyslexia, thus the child has a high risk of becoming dyslexic, and half have no such risk. Here the main findings of four studies in linguistics from the JLD project are reviewed. The speech processing skills were studied in 6, 18, 24 and 30-month-old children. The findings show that early signs of dyslexia can be detected in speech processing both phonologically and morphosyntactically. These precursors can be seen in perception or production of duration, in the prosody and phon…