The document discusses a global survey on neonatal hearing screening, emphasizing the importance of identifying congenital hearing defects. It mentions various screening technologies like otoacoustic emissions and automated auditory brainstem response, as well as the need for improved screening coverage across different countries. The text concludes with a call to advocate for infants who cannot express their hearing needs themselves.

1. Neonatal Hearing Screening
a survey on the situation in
worldwide
Dr. Dr. h.c. Monika Lehnhardt, Germany
Yerevan, September 4, 2009

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3. Deafness is not visible

5. Equipment for Newborn Hearing Screening
Otoacoustic Emissions Automated Auditory Brainstem
(OAE) Response (AABR)

6. Nucleus® Freedom CI System Modern Hearing Aids
(e.g. from Phonak)

7. ECDC- NHS
Milan, 15 - 16 May 1998
European Consensus Statement on
Neonatal Hearing
Screening
Finalised at the European Consensus Development
Conference on Neonatal Hearing Screening
15-16 May 1998, Milan
Chairman: F. Grandori

8. Germany

10. ~80%
?
~40%
~55%
>95%
?
<1%
~80%
Screening Coverage (2008)

11. Austria

12. Belgium

13. Netherlands

14. Switzerland

15. United Kingdom

16. Poland

17. Croatia

18. Spain

20. Infants cannot complain of lack of hearing, and cannot
seek interventions we would surely not deny ourselves.
We can and we must do their complaining for them!
Dr. Martyn Hyde

21. http://www.schenken-sie-kindern-gehoer.de
http://www.lehnhardt-stiftung.org
Email: ml@lehnhardt-stiftung.org
Email: m.lehnhardt@t-online.de