title: Early care in children with permanent hearing impairment.
abstract: The implementation of regional protocols for newborn hearing screening and early audiologic diagnosis represent the first step of the entire diagnostic, rehabilitative and prosthetic programme for children with permanent hearing impairment. The maximum benefit of early diagnosis can indeed be obtained only by prompt rehabilitation aimed at fostering the child's communicative, linguistic and cognitive development. Within the framework of the CMM 2013 project of the Ministry of Health entitled "Preventing Communication Disorders: a Regional Program for Early Identification, Intervention and Care of Hearing Impaired Children", the problems concerning the promotion of the global development of children with PHI through an early rehabilitation project based on shared knowledge and scientific evidence. In this project, our specific aim was to define the features and modes of access to a precise and specialised rehabilitation project for the small hearing-impaired child within three months from audiologic diagnosis. Three main recommendations relative to assessment and rehabilitation aspects of early care emerged from the study.
authors.affiliation: U.O. ORL Audiologia e Foniatria Universitaria, Università di Pisa;
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giuntini
authors.affiliation: U.O. ORL Audiologia e Foniatria Universitaria, Università di Pisa;
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Forli
authors.affiliation: U.O. ORL Audiologia e Foniatria Universitaria, Università di Pisa;
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nicastro
authors.affiliation: U.O. ORL Audiologia e Foniatria Universitaria, Università di Pisa;
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ciabotti
authors.affiliation: U.O. ORL Audiologia e Foniatria Universitaria, Università di Pisa;
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bruschini
authors.affiliation: U.O. ORL Audiologia e Foniatria Universitaria, Università di Pisa, Operative Unit of Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology and Phoniatrics, University of Pisa, Italy, Guest Professor at Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Dept. of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Istituet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Berrettini
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015997:Neonatal Screening
keywords: Auditory rehabilitation; Childhood permanent hearing impairment; Early care; SWOT analysis