title: [The thresholds comparison of auditory steady-state responses and auditory brain-stem response].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare the thresholds of auditory brainstem response (ABR)and auditory steady-state responses (ASSR) in the same group of deaf children and give a clinical evaluation for ASSR after that.
  
  
  METHODS
  Both kinds of thresholds have been recorded and analyzed of these deaf children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The ABR thresholds are (85.82 +/- 12.39) and (82.70 +/- 14.93) dB nHL for left and right ears. At four testing frequencies of ASSR, the thresholds are (86.91 +/- 16.70), (90.32 +/- 16.11), (91.02 +/- 16.58), (89.80 +/- 17.08) and (85.15 +/- 18.16), (89.32 +/- 17.76), (90.41 +/- 18.87), (85.15 +/- 17.03) dB HL for left and right ears. The correlation coefficients between the ASSR and ABR of left and right ears are 0.622, 0.721, 0.757, 0.714 and 0.613, 0.732, 0.795, 0.739 at these frequencies respectively. These results showed significant correlation exiting.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Reliable and frequency specific results could be obtained by ASSR so that it could be as a promising audiometry in clinic.
authors.affiliation: China Rehabilitation and Research Center for Deaf Children, Beijing, 100029, China. taozheng@chinadeaf.com
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001300:Audiometry, Evoked Response; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D006313:Hearing Loss, Central / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant