A research thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Audiology in the Faculty of Humanities the University of the Witwatersrand March 2016.Purpose: The main objective of the current study was to explore risk-based new-born hearing screening within a developing country by conducting early hearing detection in high-risk neonates within an academic hospital complex in Gauteng, South Africa. Specific objectives describing the case history factors and audio logical function in a group of high-risk determining the relationship between the case history factors and audio logical establishing the true-positive (TP) and true-negative (TN) results with different combinations of screening measures; establishing the percentage of TP ...
Objectives: To determine the prevalence and significant risk factors for pathologic hearing screenin...
Background & objectives: There is a need to develop an affordable and reliable tool for hearing scre...
Background: School-based hearing screening is likely to be the first opportunity to identify childho...
Background: Hearing impairment has a devastating, detrimental and an invariably adverse impact on th...
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannes...
OBJECTIVES : To describe the nature, associated risk factors and age of diagnosis for childhood hear...
OBJECTIVE: Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs are being established as part of...
Background: Hearing plays an important role for children in development of speech and language and s...
Background: Hearing loss is the most common congenital defect wo...
Background: Hearing plays an important role for children in development of speech and language and s...
Early identification of hearing loss in children is crucial for their cognitive and linguistic devel...
Background:This study concerns deaf children under six years in the South African HI HOPES Cohort.Ob...
Early detection of hearing impairment is crucial for normal social and emotional development. Preval...
Objective: This article reports the results of newborn hearing screening which has been performed be...
Copyright © 2013 John Jewel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Com...
Objectives: To determine the prevalence and significant risk factors for pathologic hearing screenin...
Background & objectives: There is a need to develop an affordable and reliable tool for hearing scre...
Background: School-based hearing screening is likely to be the first opportunity to identify childho...
Background: Hearing impairment has a devastating, detrimental and an invariably adverse impact on th...
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannes...
OBJECTIVES : To describe the nature, associated risk factors and age of diagnosis for childhood hear...
OBJECTIVE: Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs are being established as part of...
Background: Hearing plays an important role for children in development of speech and language and s...
Background: Hearing loss is the most common congenital defect wo...
Background: Hearing plays an important role for children in development of speech and language and s...
Early identification of hearing loss in children is crucial for their cognitive and linguistic devel...
Background:This study concerns deaf children under six years in the South African HI HOPES Cohort.Ob...
Early detection of hearing impairment is crucial for normal social and emotional development. Preval...
Objective: This article reports the results of newborn hearing screening which has been performed be...
Copyright © 2013 John Jewel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Com...
Objectives: To determine the prevalence and significant risk factors for pathologic hearing screenin...
Background & objectives: There is a need to develop an affordable and reliable tool for hearing scre...
Background: School-based hearing screening is likely to be the first opportunity to identify childho...