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There is a number of congenital problems for which babies can be tested but the most common is abnormal hearing. In this case, per 1,000, there are two to four babies who will enter this world with a significant hearing impairment making the condition 20 times more frequent than phenylketonuria, a metabolic problem for which new-borns are routinely screened. It is the average age at which a serious hearing impairment is diagnosed that involves estimates ranging from 14 months to 2 1/2 years.
Even though this sounds early enough, it is not. Even if they were only a few weeks old, their brains were already developing the capacity for language and this was something that people took for granted in the past when it comes to babies the director of the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Maryland said. In this case, if they receive no language input during a critical window of time, in this case a time that stretches back to birth, babies lose a great opportunity to learn language. Early detection can allow a child to have a good chance of communicating normally, either in sign or spoken language by the time he or she begins school, but with late detection and intervention, what follows is a long, dreary game of catching up ahead. What a professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder and lead author of the studies said was that there is always hope even if it becomes more of a challenge if a child's problem is discovered late. Fighting for across the board screening for hearing problems in new-borns are hearing advocates and this is precisely the reason why.
As mentioned by the director of government relations for the American Speech Language Hearing Association, a professional group that advocates early screening, given the baby boom let surge that the US is experiencing right now infant screening is very important. Enacting legislation for universal new-born screening programs today are several states. Here, this makes it easy to test the hearing of an adult. Here, people are put in booths by the audiologists and they need to press buttons and parrot back phrases in response to the sounds they hear. It is a different matter to test the hearing of a baby.
Because of an odd property of the ears that has been discovered and appreciated only in the past few decades, it is possible for a baby's ears can do the talking. What the ears can do is receive as well as emit sounds. The source of these sounds is the outer hair cells in our ears that move around in response to noises, somehow sharpening our ability to hear. Taking this into consideration, the movements cause the eardrum to vibrate and this sends noises back out into the world.
When it comes to the ears, they make low level noises when exposed to sound but we cannot hear these. In terms of these noises, they are loud enough for instruments to detect. The sounds aren't generated, and that is the essence of screening for hearing problems in new-borns. In a procedure that takes just a few minutes, technicians send a click of sound into a baby's ear, and a little microphone detects any sound coming out. It is possible to discover anything from mild to profound hearing loss with this test.
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