[Deafness in children: new modalities of neonatal screening].
The identification of severe-profound hearing loss must be early. Hearing screening programs among neonates use behavioral test (as in France the Veit and Bizaguet Test) or objective methods as ABR (auditory brain stem responses, evoked acoustic emissions). The objective methods give a presumptive diagnosis. A certainty diagnosis is only possible at 5-6 months by a specific audiometric technique in order to adapt better the amplification and the early education of deaf children. The subjective procedures cannot discover mild/moderate hearing loss. In addition there are false-positive and false-negative error rates. Thus we direct our work towards a greater sensitization among parents of general, neonates population, among doctors. Moreover all the infants at high risk have a behavioral audiometry at 5-6 months.
Gavilan Cellie
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Centre d'Action Médico-Sociale Précoce d'Audiologie Laboratoire d'Audiologie, Hôpital Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France.
D000367:Age Factors; D001299:Audiometry / Q000379:methods*; D003638:Deafness / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008403:Mass Screening; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Surdité chez l'enfant: nouvelles modalités du dépistage néonatal.