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In 2014 to 2019 the International Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening (NIHS) Group asked via questionnaire for the status of the hearing screening in 196 states worldwide; data from 158 states were obtained: in 64 states there is no or less screening (38% of the world's population); in 41 states (38% of the world's population) >85% of the ...
Therefore, it is recommended that hearing screening programs utilize a two-stage screening protocol that is made up of TEOAEs and AABR. Combined, these two tests have the most favorable combination of specificity, sensitivity, acceptability and high coverage in hospitals with a wide range of birth rates (Kennedy et al., 2000; [ 17 ] Vohr et al ...
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) is shown to decrease the language delay and language deprivation that is common with deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. [24] In 2007, the Philippine government started a task force for Newborn Hearing Screening. [25]
They also help design and implement personal and industrial hearing safety programs, newborn hearing screening programs, [6] school hearing screening programs, and provide special or custom fitted ear plugs and other hearing protection devices to help prevent hearing loss.
Newborn screening programs initially used screening criteria based largely on criteria established by JMG Wilson and F. Jungner in 1968. [6] Although not specifically about newborn population screening programs, their publication, Principles and practice of screening for disease proposed ten criteria that screening programs should meet before being used as a public health measure.
Dra. Padilla is a leading advocate for newborn screening. [4] She and her colleagues helped to establish the Newborn Screening System (NBS) in the Philippines, which began as a data gathering project in Metro Manila in 1996. She is the founding president of the Newborn Screening Society of the Philippines. [5]
The Newborn and Infant Screening and Intervention Program Act was authored and sponsored, mainly, by Walsh in 1999. [ 8 ] [ 11 ] On March 11, 2009, the act was renamed as the James T. Walsh Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program, [ 6 ] and was identified within 42 United States Code 280g-1 . [ 6 ]
Brazil has one of the largest and oldest newborn hearing screening programs (NHSP) in Latin America with over 246 screening sites across 24 of the 27 Brazilian states. According to Cavalcanti & Guerra (2012), [4] the first NHSP dates back to 1988 in São Paulo. Originally, only babies with risk factors were screened for hearing loss.