Infant hearing screening in Mississippi.
Four national professional associations through their representatives on the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing have endorsed the importance of early identification of hearing impaired children. In this article the author reports on the past seven years of the Infant Hearing Screening Program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He notes that efforts are currently underway to extend the IHS Program to other hospitals in Mississippi in cooperation with the Lions Club. At the present time 22 hospitals have been equipped to screen hearing in infants.
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