The Hearing‐Impaired Infant: Patterns of Identification and Habilitation
The Hearing‐Impaired Infant: Patterns of Identification and Habilitation
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听力障碍婴儿：识别和适应模式
作者：
L. Stein;Sylvia Clark;N. Kraus
1982年婴儿听力联合委员会的立场声明建议，有听力障碍风险的婴儿在3个月大时进行筛查，诊断过程在6个月大时完成并开始听力障碍。如何接近这种理想的实际做法来在城市设置是本研究的主题。回顾性分析了88名参加医院亲子项目的婴儿的数据，以确定危险因素的发生和年龄：（1）首次怀疑听力损失，（2）诊断听力损失，（3）开始听力障碍。结果表明，超过四分之一的听力障碍婴儿不会表现出任何风险因素中提出的1982年的立场声明，无论婴儿是否从新生儿重症监护病房或婴儿托儿所毕业，在父母-婴儿计划注册的年龄中位数是一年或更晚于1982年的建议。
The 1982 Position Statement by the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing recommends that infants at risk for hearing impairment be screened by 3 mos of age and that the diagnostic process be completed and habilitation begun by 6 mos of age. How close to this ideal actual practice comes in an urban setting is the subject of this study. Data on 88 infants referred to a hospital-based parent-infant program were retrospectively examined to determine the occurrence of risk factors and at what ages: (1) hearing loss was first suspected, (2) hearing loss was diagnosed, and (3) habilitation was initiated. Results indicate that over one-quarter of all hearing-impaired infants will not manifest any of the risk factors proposed in the 1982 Position Statement and that regardless of whether the infant graduates from a neonatal intensive care unit or well-baby nursery, the median age for enrollment in a parent-infant program is a year or more later than the 1982 recommendation.