Avoid Children Experiencing Social Disorders, Let's Get Hearing Screening From Babies

NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING

Hearing loss in newborn babies is a serious matter. Learning to communicate through language is an important part of your child's development. Because hearing has a very large role in a child's development, it is important to carry out hearing screening since the baby is born. If not immediately diagnosed and given early intervention, a child will experience social, speech, language, cognitive and academic disorders.

1 to 2 babies out of every 1,000 are born with permanent hearing loss in one or both ears. This figure increases to about 1 in every 100 babies who spend more than 48 hours in intensive care. Most of these babies are born into families with no history of hearing loss. Permanent hearing loss can significantly affect a baby's growth and development.
Knowing this early can give these babies a better chance at developing language, speech and communication skills.

Hearing screening is easy and painless. In fact, babies often fall asleep during the examination. The hearing screening process only takes a short time and usually only a few minutes. Babies whose hearing screening results refer or do not pass must be examined further by an ENT-BKL specialist. Additional tests will be carried out to find out whether the baby has hearing loss, how severe the hearing loss is, and what type of hearing loss.

How is newborn hearing screening done?
Newborn hearing screening is done with an examination called otoacoustic emission (OAE). A small earpiece with a soft tip is placed in the baby's ear and a soft clicking sound is played. It is not always possible to get a clear response from the first examination. This happens to many babies, and does not always mean your baby has permanent hearing loss. This could mean your baby is restless during the examination, there is background noise, there is fluid or a temporary blockage in your baby's ear

In this case, your baby will be offered a second examination. The second examination is the same as the first examination using OAE, or another type called automated auditory brainstem response (AABR).