Furthermore, various associated factors for psychopathology were detected, including age at detection of hearing loss, age at intervention, SES, and number of siblings.
Recent improvements in early detection of hearing loss in newborns, improved hearing aids, surgical implant devices and especially early intervention with parents have led to new opportunities to learn to hear.
Early detection of hearing loss in infants and toddlers has created a need for age-appropriate tests that assess auditory perceptual capabilities.
Many countries have already recognized the importance of early detection of hearing loss, but there was not a chance to make it universal in national terms yet.
This can lead to earlier detection of hearing loss in infants who had been lost to follow-up, as well as identifying false negatives missed at UNHS.
A series of consanguineous Qatari families were enrolled through the registry of the National Screening Program for the Early Detection of Hearing Loss (NSP-EDHL) at the Audiology Unit of Hamad Medical Hospital in Doha, Qatar.
On January 9, 2007, responsibility for the national program of early detection of hearing loss was transferred from MEHA to the Jordan Ministry of Health as an integral part of its offer of services to new born babies.
Rapidly evolving new technologies will likely allow the addition of microarrays and other kinds of high-through-put testing to supplement the early detection of hearing loss using available resources (e.g., newborn screening residual dried blood spots) and testing for a broad spectrum of deafness and hearing loss causing genes.
18 Yoshinaga-Itano et al. 19 and Moeller et al. 20 have presented critically needed outcome data showing that early detection of hearing loss, accompanied by the introduction of intervention strategies within the first few months of life, results in infants' subsequent development of language skills that approach the skills of their peers who do not have hearing loss.
In a recent review, Ptok points out that 'the most important single measure for the practical realization of early detection of hearing impairments in newborns and infants in Germany seems to be the installation of a system of tracking centers covering the whole country' (p. 430) [ 6].
