title: [Early detection of hearing impairment in children].
abstract: Good hearing is necessary for speech learning, and for physical and mental development. Hearing impairment is serious disease for the newborn. It has negative effect to speech development. Broad systematic audiological examinations of population may single out deaf and persons with hearing impairment. Systematic hearing examination can be done in different age. It would be best to examine the newborn child immediately upon birth, during infantry, and subsequently before entering the elementary school, and finally college. This paper presents initiative, within relevant national institutions, to make changes of legislative system related to procedures of hearing impairment screening and application of new methods in screening process. Broader scientific community has been notified about relevant legal acts in use as well as epidemiological data related to hearing malfunction in infants, preschool and school children. Various methods of physical examinations were presented within possibilities of current health care system. Advantages and disadvantages of different methods as well as significance of systematic examinations of hearing in children were described.
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sente
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aleksov-Hatvan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015997:Neonatal Screening